Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager
Location: Office-first

At Vendasta, we’re leading the AI revolution from right here in Saskatoon—and beyond. We work together to empower our partners and customers through our AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform to help them get more customers and keep them. We’re proud to share that Vendasta has officially been named one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures for 2025!

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager who is energized by building and sustaining high-performing engineering teams aligned with Vendasta’s strategic objectives. In this role, you will foster a culture of continuous learning, scalable innovation, and operational excellence, driving impactful outcomes and preparing teams for the future of software development.

Your Impact

As an Engineering Manager, you'll work with engineering teams, QA, and product managers to:

Manage and Coach Talent: Lead direct reports through consistent feedback, regular 1-on-1s, and clear goal-setting, holding team members accountable to execution benchmarks and workflow efficiencies.

Drive Career Growth & AI Fluency: Facilitate the career trajectory of engineers with a focus on AI fluency, ethical use, prompt engineering, and agentic workflows, helping them reduce toil and optimize solution delivery.

Optimize Team Processes: Master and lead Scrum methodologies, integrating AI-assisted tooling (e.g., for sprint planning, code generation, and testing) to improve agile metrics, velocity forecasting, and overall throughput.

Scale Hiring & Resourcing: Proactively build a robust hiring pipeline, prioritizing tech talent with a strong aptitude for working with AI-enhanced development tools and aligning team capabilities with evolving R&D strategies.

Deliver Strategic Metrics: Track and improve Key Performance Indicators—such as Manager Net Promoter Score (MNPS), delivery velocity, automation rates, and engineering scorecards—to share organizational best practices.

What You Bring to the Table

You bring 5–7 years of software development experience (ideally within a SaaS environment), with 1+ years in a formal engineering leadership role.

You have a proven track record of guiding technical teams through workflow changes, managing resistance, and inspiring teams to embrace continuous innovation.

You have demonstrated experience evaluating, integrating, and scaling AI-enhanced processes (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, CI/CD automation) and designing scalable team practices like prompt libraries.

You are an expert in Scrum/Agile frameworks, capable of coaching teams through AI-supported sprint planning, retrospectives, and estimation.

You are an excellent communicator who can articulate technical impacts to non-technical stakeholders while fiercely advocating for ethical and responsible AI use.

You possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

About Vendasta

We help businesses get more customers. And keep them. Vendasta is an AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform for SMBs and the partners who support them, streamlining marketing, sales, and operations through intelligent AI employees, automation, and real-time actions and insights. From creating awareness to nurturing lasting customer relationships, Vendasta offers a suite of solutions with AI assistants that streamline every stage of the customer journey. By combining a business's unique data with AI and automation, Vendasta simplifies marketing, sales, and operations, eliminating the need for multiple disjointed systems.

Perks

At Vendasta, you’ll work alongside driven, curious teammates in a culture rooted in Drive, Innovation, Respect, and Agility, solving meaningful problems that shape the future of local business. We invest deeply in your development through continuous learning opportunities, hands-on exposure to emerging technologies, in-house training, education reimbursement, and leadership development programs designed to help you grow as the world evolves. We support this growth with flexibility, wellness benefits, and an environment that trusts you to do your best work — whether that’s learning something new, taking on bigger challenges, or building the next chapter of your career. At Vendasta, you’re not just keeping up with change. You’re growing with it.

Discover your potential. Build something that matters. Join the AI revolution from right here in Saskatoon.