Role overview

Vanta’s Customer Trust team builds products that automate security assessments and help organizations demonstrate trust to their customers. As Engineering Manager, you will lead two product squads—Trust Center and Questionnaire—driving strategically critical roadmaps that automate inbound customer assessments and enable transparent security verification. This is an execution-focused position in a high-visibility area where product-market fit is established and the challenge lies in delivering with urgency and precision.

Key responsibilities

Lead two squads to deliver against a defined product roadmap with consistency and sustainability.
Establish a high-accountability, high-ownership culture through weekly goal tracking, technical specification reviews, and proactive project visibility.
Partner with product and design teams to shape roadmap priorities, make tradeoff decisions, and ensure engineering perspectives inform what gets built.
Engage in technical decisions by reviewing specifications, participating in architecture discussions, and guiding your team toward sound engineering choices.
Attract, develop, and retain strong engineers while managing and upleveling senior individual contributors.
Work cross-functionally with go-to-market, AI Platform, and other teams to identify opportunities, remove blockers, and deliver business results.
Contribute to Vanta’s engineering culture by helping build processes, norms, and practices that support organizational scaling.

Requirements

Two or more years of full-time engineering management experience leading teams of six to eight or more engineers.
Proven track record running high-execution teams with disciplined delivery practices including technical specification reviews, weekly goal tracking, and strong timeline accountability.
Experience managing and upleveling senior individual contributors.
Background in product engineering, having led teams building customer-facing software rather than primarily infrastructure or platform work.
Technical engagement and comfort participating in architecture discussions, reading specifications critically, and making informed tradeoff decisions.
Demonstrated ability to shape product and long-term technical strategy in partnership with a product manager.
Strong decision-making skills that effectively balance ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality; familiarity with using AI tools in daily work to amplify skills and strengthen outcomes.

What makes this role worth considering

You’ll work with a kind and talented team at a company focused on making security continuous rather than a point-in-time check. The role sits at the intersection of agentic AI innovation and enterprise expansion, with the opportunity to lead on a clear, proven roadmap in one of the company’s highest-visibility product areas.