Role overview

Benevity is a social action technology platform serving Fortune 100 companies with tools for giving, volunteering, grantmaking and employee engagement. As a Software Development Manager based in Toronto, you will lead multiple engineering teams in a fast-paced environment, overseeing delivery across developer experience, software development lifecycle improvements and core business capabilities that enable trusted positive impact globally.

Key responsibilities

Lead multiple teams through AI-driven development processes, promoting forward-thinking approaches to deliver software solutions across development experience and business-critical features.
Own delivery commitments for your teams by setting clear goals, monitoring progress and ensuring accountability through completion.
Provide direct people leadership including recruitment, performance management, team culture development, budget oversight and cost control.
Develop and mentor team leads and senior engineers to build leadership capacity across your organization.
Allocate people and resources between teams as business priorities evolve, addressing resourcing gaps with senior leadership.
Partner across Product, Support, Customer Success and other departments to ensure releases are properly documented, communicated and adopted internally.
Maintain technical credibility in multiple domains to validate technical assumptions and guide decisions aligned with business objectives and company standards.
Coordinate scheduling and prioritization with product management while understanding business context to inform resourcing and cost decisions.
Track team performance through regular reporting aligned to company metrics and frameworks.
Use AI tools in your own leadership work and enable your teams to leverage AI for increased productivity.

Requirements

Hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic software development, including using AI tooling to enhance your own leadership effectiveness.
Proven success managing multiple engineering teams working with cloud-based technologies at scale in enterprise SaaS environments.
Track record of driving adoption and enablement of new tools, platforms or product releases across organizations.
Ability to lead teams across both infrastructure and product-facing work while flexibly shifting capacity based on changing needs.
Strong delivery mindset with accountability and follow-through across competing priorities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage effectively with non-technical stakeholders.
Technical knowledge including code-level understanding to validate assumptions and guide sound technology decisions.
Demonstrated passion for developing people, building team culture and scaling technology teams in high-growth organizations.

What makes this role worth considering

Benevity is a purpose-driven B Corporation where you’ll work on technology that directly enables social impact at a global scale. The company maintains a flexible hybrid work approach with offices in multiple locations including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain and Switzerland, allowing you to balance in-person collaboration with flexibility. You’ll join a team that prioritizes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging as core company values, with significant investment in supporting all employees.