About the role
From the employer’s listing · Vanta · posted 2 October 2026
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. The Customer Trust team owns the products that help organizations put security assessments on autopilot, and this Engineering Management role leads the squad building it. With 11 engineers across the Trust Center and Questionnaire product, you'll drive two of Vanta's most strategically important roadmaps: fully automating inbound customer assessments make it easy for our customers to project trust transparently to their customers This is an execution-first role in one of Vanta's highest-visibility product areas. The roadmap is defined, product-market fit is proven, and the opportunity is in leading these squads to deliver with urgency and precision, at the intersection of agentic AI innovation and enterprise expansion. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as a Engineering Manager at Vanta: Lead two squads to deliver consistently and sustainably against a clear product roadmap Set a high-accountability, high-ownership delivery culture — weekly goal tracking, tech spec reviews, and proactive project visibility Partner closely with product and design to shape roadmap priorities, make tradeoff decisions, and ensure engineering is a strong voice in what gets built and why Engage meaningfully in technical decisions — read specs, participate in architecture discussions, and guide your team toward sound engineering choices without needing to write all the code yourself Attract, grow, and retain strong engineers; manage and uplevel senior ICs and foster an environment where your team does their best work Work cross-functionally with GTM, the AI Platform team, and other partners to identify opportunities, clear blockers, and ship for the business Contribute to Vanta’s engineering culture by helping build the processes, norms, and practices that help the whole organization scale How to be successful in this role: 2+ years of full-time engineering management experience leading teams of 6–8+ engineers Track record of running high-execution teams with disciplined delivery practices — tech spec reviews, weekly goal tracking, and strong timeline accountability Experience managing and upleveling senior individual contributors Product engineering background: you’ve led teams building customer-facing software, not primarily infrastructure or platform Technically engaged and comfortable in architecture discussions, able to read specs critically and make informed tradeoff decisions Proven ability to shape product and long-term technical strategy in close partnership with a PM Strong decision maker who effectively balances ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality Us