Who you are

• 5-7 years experience leading a development team in a cross-functional environment
• 10+ years of functional experience in Software Development, SaaS experience considered a plus
• Hands-on familiarity with AI concepts relevant to SaaS product development (agents, LLMs, prompt design, model evaluation tradeoffs) to engage substantively with your team's technical decisions and ask the right questions
• Proven track record of delivering great solutions to complex problems while balancing technical and product concerns
• Have effectively hired, onboarded, and managed a team of developers reporting to you
• You invest in your people's growth with the same rigor you apply to technical problems — setting high expectations, giving direct feedback, and creating real development opportunities
• You build team environments where people do their best work — psychologically safe enough to take risks, accountable enough to deliver
• You follow through on your commitments, overcome blockers, navigate disagreements and take responsibility for your work and your team's work
• You are comfortable in technical conversations, and supporting your team as they explore tradeoffs and make technical decisions
• You connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes — your team knows why the work matters, not just what they're building

What the job involves

• Vidyard is looking for a Senior Manager, Software Development to join our Nova team - the team behind our AI Video Agent and Vidyard's most experimental product bets
• Reporting directly to our CTO, you'll guide a high-performing team building one of our most critical and fast-moving platforms, while contributing to how great engineering gets done across Vidyard
• Through your technical coaching and guidance, you will create a supportive and challenging environment for your team to thrive, and participate in broader initiatives to help level up our engineering team as a whole
• Our Nova Team is composed of 5 developers, a Designer, a Staff Product Manager, and a Staff Software Developer
• We are dedicated to creating and enhancing Vidyard’s Video Agent feature, continually improving and expanding its functionality
• You'll play an active role in evolving how our Engineering team works including helping the department build fluency in AI-assisted development practices so teams ship faster, experiment smarter, and stay ahead of how the craft is changing
• Stay close to the evolving AI landscape so your team makes informed decisions on architecture, tooling, and experimentation — and bring that context into how Nova builds
• Help shape AI-assisted development practices across Engineering, modeling curiosity and responsible use so teams ship faster and the broader department stays ahead of how the craft is changing
• Refining your team’s charter and direction to maximize Vidyard’s growth
• Fostering strong cross-functional business and technical decisions, with Product Managers and Designers, influencing broad and impactful decisions
• Growing and developing an incredible team of hardworking and motivated developers with high expectations around individual ownership and impact
• Ensuring the delivery of team projects and outcomes to drive forward business goals
• Partnering with other leaders and the team to craft technical and product strategy
• Developing a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies Vidyard's values
• Our Tech Stack
• Managers at Vidyard come from technical backgrounds but may be unfamiliar with the technologies our teams use daily
• We primarily use Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Vue.js, React, MySQL and AWS. Experience with some of these is a plus, experience with all of them is not necessary

Benefits

• Collaboration Center: Our downtown Kitchener location is a converted historical building, close to public transit.
• Community Care: Community is a key stakeholder at Vidyard. We founded Plugin to host charitable events to support local groups and, as a company, we provide more than 2,000 volunteer hours in the community every year.
• Vidyardians: You’ll work alongside passionate team members and always have access to our leadership team. Together, we want to help our customers succeed.
• Working Well: We believe that people know what works best for them and should take the time they need to refresh, so we offer flexibility and wellness programs.
• Benefits: We offer RRSP matching, a health and wellness subsidy, professional development fund, access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and more.
• Stock Ownership: We want our people to be invested in our exciting future and benefit from their own hard work.