Engineering Manager, Destinations

About the Role

Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, every marketer finally has the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves. Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hightouch enables marketing teams to analyze performance, brainstorm ideas, and generate creative at a speed and quality that was not previously possible. Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Customer Data Platforms, Hightouch is trusted by leading enterprises like Domino's, Spotify, Aritzia, Cars.com, Ramp, and PetSmart. At Hightouch, our mission is to help our customers leverage data and AI to grow their businesses. The team is ambitious, impact-driven, efficient - and we believe humility, kindness, and compassion are essential to our success. If you are energized by velocity, obsessed with raising the bar, and want to build alongside people who care deeply about each other and our customers, we would love to meet you.

This role is specifically focused on managing the execution and strategy of our critical integration layer. The position title is Engineering Manager, Destinations.

About the Role

We are seeking a talented, curious, and motivated Engineering Manager to lead our engineering team responsible for managing 300+ destination integrations. This role blends hands-on technical leadership with people management to raise the bar for how we ship integrations quickly and reliably. You will partner with product and sales to own the strategy and execution of the destination integrations roadmap. You will drive improvements in sync performance, reliability, and developer experience while mentoring engineers to solve complex problems. You will work directly with customers and integration partners to uncover new use cases and translate them into robust solutions. You will prioritize competing demands between immediate deal enablement and long-term platform scalability. You will leverage AI to boost engineering productivity and ensure our integrations remain at the forefront of the composable data landscape.

What You'll Do

• Define and own the technical strategy for our 300+ destination integrations in collaboration with product and sales stakeholders.
• Balance short-term deal enablement with long-term platform improvements by prioritizing the integration roadmap effectively.
• Lead the design of scalable sync architectures that handle HTTP APIs, file transfers, and data warehouses with varying limitations.
• Maximize sync performance through parallelism, batching, rate-limit detection, and algorithmic optimizations across all destinations.
• Partner with customers and integration partners to discover new use cases and translate them into robust integration features.
• Mentor engineers on best practices for building, testing, and maintaining high-quality integration code.
• Drive the adoption of AI tools to accelerate development cycles and improve the quality of integration work.
• Ensure reliability and observability of destination integrations to support enterprise customers running tens of thousands of syncs per day.
• Collaborate closely with the product team to turn strategic requirements into actionable technical tasks.
• Champion engineering excellence by setting high standards for code quality, documentation, and operational practices.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of integration projects from discovery through launch and post-launch optimization.
• Evaluate new protocols, standards, and tooling to keep our integration layer future-proof and efficient.
• Communicate progress, trade-offs, and risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

You must have a proven track record of delivering complex software projects on schedule and within scope. You must have hands-on experience building or managing API integrations at scale with strong problem-solving skills. You must have experience leading and mentoring engineers, helping them grow technical and communication skills. You must be comfortable reasoning from first principles and approaching ambiguous problems with structured thinking. You must have excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences. You must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift quickly and ownership is high. You must have a strong sense of ownership and accountability for outcomes, even when working remotely. You must be able to make clear trade-off decisions between speed, quality, and business impact on a regular basis.

Nice to Have

Experience building and scaling a platform with hundreds of API integrations is preferred. Background in data platforms, marketing technology, or enterprise software is a plus. Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and workflows is a bonus.

Practical Notes

The role is fully remote and available in North America. This position reports to the leadership team and requires strong cross-functional collaboration. We ship quickly and expect engineers to move with velocity while maintaining high quality. The team regularly works directly with customers and integration partners to solve real-world problems. Hightouch is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. The salary range for this position is $200,000 - $400,000 USD per year, which is location independent in accordance with our remote-first policy. We also offer meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options, and offer early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window.