Engineering Manager, Content Onboarding
Engineering Manager · Manager · Full Time
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Role
What you'll do.
Notion seeks an Engineering Manager for the Content Onboarding team based in Hyderabad, India, to lead the technical vision and strategy for content import/export systems that enable customers to reliably migrate data into Notion as their system of record. This leadership role requires strong technical acumen, multi-quarter strategic planning, and the ability to develop senior engineers while coordinating across distributed teams and time zones. You'll shape the future of content onboarding infrastructure, integrate AI-era workflows, and establish engineering excellence standards within a fast-growing, customer-centric organization.
Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership and Vision Setting: Represent the Content Onboarding team's work to stakeholders, maintain elevated engineering standards, and de-risk critical technical decisions through clear decision-making processes and delegation. Partner with senior individual contributors to ensure architectural excellence across import systems, export workflows, and internal administrative tooling.
- Strategic Roadmap Development: Craft and execute multi-quarter team strategy aligned with product goals, particularly in areas dependent on adjacent product and engineering teams. By 90 days, clarify near-term priorities and validate key technical assumptions for importers, exports, and admin tools. Establish a clear north star metric for the Content Onboarding surface area.
- AI and Modern Workflow Integration: Connect AI-era patterns and agentic workflows to content onboarding and import experiences. Leverage AI to improve product judgment, prototyping speed, and engineering quality throughout the design-to-production pipeline.
- Engineering Excellence and Team Standards: Build a high-performing team with durable operational standards and reliable systems. Establish shared understanding of what it takes to maintain critical workflows. Create steady operating rhythms with headquarters while maintaining coordination across time zones.
- Senior Engineer Development: Develop and mentor senior engineers on the team, strengthening technical capabilities and leadership depth. Foster an environment of continuous improvement and technical growth within a distributed team context.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Maintain tight coordination with cross-functional partners across product, design, and other engineering teams despite distributed time zones. Ensure product and engineering alignment on content migration capabilities that differentiate Notion's platform.
- System Reliability and Compliance: Oversee the reliability of content import/export systems and compliance workflows, ensuring customers can confidently move their information into Notion. Build systems designed to support Notion's core differentiator of replacing multiple tools through seamless data migration.
Qualifications
What we look for.
Technical
Strong Technical Foundation
Deep understanding of distributed systems, data pipelines, and content import/export architectures. Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and design decisions that impact system reliability at scale.
API and Integration Design
Experience designing and overseeing API integrations and data transformation systems that connect external tools and services with internal platforms.
Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps
Familiarity with cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment pipelines. Understanding of operational excellence and system monitoring for production reliability.
Data Systems and Databases
Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, data migration strategies, and handling large-scale data integrity concerns.
AI and Modern Tooling
Intellectual curiosity about AI applications and willingness to leverage AI as a collaborator in engineering work, product prototyping, and decision-making processes.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Related Field
Foundational knowledge in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related discipline. Equivalent professional experience demonstrating technical depth is acceptable.
Experience
Engineering Management Experience
Proven track record managing engineering teams, with demonstrated ability to lead through technical credibility, set direction, and make sound engineering decisions that scale.
Multi-Functional Leadership
Experience coordinating across product, design, and engineering teams to deliver complex features or systems. Comfort navigating organizational dependencies and ambiguity.
Distributed Team Leadership
Experience leading teams across time zones or geographic regions, establishing clear communication cadences and maintaining team cohesion in remote/hybrid environments.
Strategic Planning and Execution
Demonstrated ability to develop quarterly and annual team roadmaps, translate strategy into executable plans, and measure progress against key metrics and milestones.
Senior Engineer Development
Track record of identifying high-potential engineers, providing meaningful mentorship, and creating growth opportunities that strengthen team technical depth.
Skills
Required
Technical Leadership
Ability to represent team work clearly, maintain high engineering standards, and de-risk decisions through structured processes, effective delegation, and collaboration with senior individual contributors.
Strategic Thinking and Planning
Capability to craft multi-quarter team strategy, especially in areas where outcomes depend on coordination with adjacent product and engineering teams.
Team Building and Mentorship
Experience developing senior engineers, establishing operating rhythms, and creating high-performing teams with clear standards and shared values.
Distributed Leadership
Skill in setting direction for a local team while staying coordinated with cross-functional partners across time zones and geographic regions.
Systems Thinking
Ability to design and oversee reliable, scalable systems for content onboarding and data migration while considering long-term maintainability.
Communication and Alignment
Clear communication of complex technical and strategic concepts to both engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders; ability to build consensus across organizational boundaries.
Preferred
AI/ML Fluency
Nice to haveComfort using AI tools for enhancing product judgment, accelerating prototyping, and improving engineering workflow. Intellectual curiosity about AI applications in content onboarding and data systems.
B2B SaaS Experience
Nice to haveBackground in scaling B2B SaaS products where content migration, data import/export, or integration capabilities drive customer adoption and retention.
No-Code or Low-Code Platform Experience
Nice to haveFamiliarity with building tools or platforms that emphasize user flexibility, customization, and ease of use without requiring deep technical knowledge.
Data Migration and ETL Expertise
Nice to haveExperience designing or overseeing extract-transform-load pipelines, handling data quality concerns, and managing large-scale data migrations.
Agile and Lean Methodologies
Nice to haveExperience with iterative development practices, OKRs, continuous delivery, and data-driven decision making.
Open Source Contribution
Nice to haveHistory of contributing to or maintaining open source projects, demonstrating community collaboration and long-term code stewardship.
Tech stack
Languages
Frameworks
Databases
Tools
Other
Compensation
Pay and benefits.
Base·USD 90,000 – 130,000
Equity·Stock options
Benefits
Comprehensive Health Coverage
Medical, dental, and vision insurance with competitive coverage. Support for mental health and wellness programs.
Flexible Work Arrangement
Hybrid work model with anchor days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday) in Hyderabad office for in-person collaboration, with flexibility for remote work on other days.
Professional Development
Learning stipends, conference attendance budget, and opportunities to develop leadership skills through mentorship and training programs.
Equity Participation
Stock options for eligible employees, with the opportunity to share in Notion's growth as a company.
Generous Time Off
Competitive paid time off, flexible vacation policy, and paid holidays observed in India.
Relocation Support
Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance if relocating from outside India to Hyderabad.
Team Building and Culture
Regular team outings, company events, and a collaborative culture that values craft, long-term thinking, and human-centered work.
Career Growth Opportunities
Clear pathways for advancement into senior leadership roles. Access to cross-functional projects and visibility across the organization.
Process
Interview steps.
- 01
Initial Recruiter Screening
Phone or video call with Notion's recruiting team to discuss your background, interest in the role, and alignment with Notion's values. This conversation validates experience with distributed team leadership, strategic thinking, and technical depth.
- 02
Technical Leadership Deep-Dive
Conversation with engineering leadership (Director or Principal Engineer) focused on your technical architecture decisions, approach to de-risking technical initiatives, and how you've elevated engineering standards in previous teams. Expect discussion of real scenarios from your experience.
- 03
Strategic and Product Thinking
Discussion with a Product Manager or cross-functional leader about your approach to multi-quarter planning, stakeholder alignment, and how you balance engineering excellence with product velocity. May include a case study or scenario-based questions about managing competing priorities.
- 04
Team Leadership and Mentorship
Conversation with peer engineering managers or senior leaders about your experience developing engineers, building high-performing teams, and establishing operating rhythms. Expect questions about handling difficult personnel situations and fostering psychological safety.
- 05
Distributed Leadership and Communication
Interview with team members or cross-functional partners who work in different time zones, focused on how you maintain alignment, communicate across boundaries, and ensure distributed teams stay coordinated and motivated.
- 06
Executive Alignment and Vision
Final conversation with senior leadership (VP Engineering or above) to discuss your long-term vision for content onboarding, how you think about Notion's competitive positioning, and your leadership philosophy in the context of Notion's mission.
Full posting
Original listing.
Who We Are
Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together. We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion.
Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work.
About the Role:
Notion’s Content Onboarding team builds the systems that help customers move content into Notion, get started faster, and keep growing reliably over time. The role matters because one of Notion’s core differentiators is replacing multiple tools — and that only becomes real when customers can get their information out of those tools and into Notion with confidence. You’ll partner with product and engineering leaders to shape the future of our content importers, internal administrative tooling, and compliance workflows like exports.
This role is based in Hyderabad, India. We work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (our Anchor Days) because we do our best thinking and building together in person. We’re looking for someone who’s excited to work alongside the team during those days.
What You'll Achieve:
Shape the technical and product vision for Notion’s import systems, so customers can pull content from more sources and transform it into a trustworthy system of record.
By your 90th day, you’ll have clarified the near-term roadmap and de-risked the most important technical decisions for importers, exports, and internal admin tooling. You’ll connect AI-era and agentic workflow patterns to onboarding and import experiences — using AI to improve product judgment, prototyping, and engineering quality from design through production.
By the end of your first year, engineering excellence will be a team norm: reliable systems, clear operational standards, and a shared understanding of what it takes to keep critical workflows running. You will have a steady operating rhythm with HQ while owning a clear north star for the Content Onboarding surface area.
Skills You'll Need to Bring:
Strong technical leadership: you can represent the team’s work, hold a high engineering bar, and de-risk decisions through clear processes, delegation, and senior IC partnership.
Ability to craft and maintain multi-quarter team strategy, especially where outcomes depend on adjacent product and engineering teams.
Experience developing senior engineers, strengthening operating rhythms, and building high-performing engineering teams with durable standards.
Distributed-team leadership: you can set direction for a local team while staying tightly coordinated with cross-functional partners across time zones.
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A Note on AI
You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on.
Equal Opportunity & Accommodations
We hire talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every bullet, we still encourage you to apply. Notion is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic. Consistent with applicable law, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Notion provides reasonable accommodations during the application process; if you need one, please let your recruiter know.
Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.
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