Senior Development Manager

Job Description

Senior Manager, Software Development | OneTrust

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at OneTrust, with an office-first culture encouraging three days a week in the office. OneTrust builds an AI-Ready Governance Platform that unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows to enable responsible data and AI use. This role is crucial for leading engineering teams in transforming strategic customer insights into scalable platform capabilities, building the next generation of solutions spanning Privacy, Consent, Risk, AI Governance, and Compliance. The work accelerates innovation by ensuring trusted data does not slow down progress, but instead enhances what is possible.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid

• Team: Leads multiple engineering teams
• Mission: Leads engineering teams responsible for transforming strategic customer insights into scalable platform capabilities across OneTrust’s AI-Ready Governance Platform.
• Tech Stack: GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Devin, Cursor, Windsurf, emerging AI engineering technologies

What You’ll Actually Do
• Lead Engineering Strategy & Execution: Define and execute the engineering strategy for customer-driven innovation initiatives, aligning technical investments with product strategy, customer needs, and long-term platform objectives while ensuring predictable delivery and operational excellence.
• Build High-Performing Engineering Teams: Recruit, develop, and retain world-class engineers and technical leaders, fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
• Accelerate Product Innovation: Partner with Product Specialists, Architects, and strategic customers to rapidly validate ideas, prototype solutions, and deliver capabilities that address complex customer challenges.
• Drive Technical Excellence: Establish engineering standards, architecture principles, quality practices, observability frameworks, security controls, and operational processes that ensure scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems.
• Lead AI-Powered Engineering Transformation: Drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices across engineering teams, establishing standards, governance, and success metrics for AI engineering tools to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery speed.
• Deliver Customer Outcomes at Scale: Partner closely with Customer Engineering and Design Partner teams to ensure strategic customer investments result in measurable business outcomes, balancing customer-specific needs with platform scalability.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A strategic engineering leader who balances technical depth with organizational leadership, comfortable operating across Product, Architecture, Customer Engineering, and Executive Leadership teams, with a track record of developing future engineering leaders.
• Experience: 12+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated success delivering enterprise-scale SaaS platforms and customer-facing products, plus 5+ years leading engineering managers, engineering teams, or multi-team organizations and proven experience scaling engineering organizations, operating models, and development practices across multiple teams.
• Skills: Strong software architecture and distributed systems expertise, experience delivering cloud-native applications and operating highly available distributed services, experience implementing modern engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD, observability, platform engineering, automated testing, and developer productivity initiatives, experience leading AI-assisted software development transformation and measuring engineering effectiveness improvements, and strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.