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About the Role

Yext is seeking engineering managers to lead strong teams, solve meaningful technical problems, and help shape future product development. The Product Engineering team builds and evolves the technology behind Yext's products and services in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of software engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and career support.
Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate product priorities into actionable plans.
Own team execution and delivery, establishing priorities and maintaining a sustainable development cadence.
Create clarity for the team by resolving ambiguity, removing blockers, and managing priorities.
Maintain technical understanding of team systems and guide architecture, design, and implementation.
Foster high engineering quality through design discussions, code reviews, testing, and continuous improvement.
Ensure team preparedness for production incidents, providing leadership and coordination.
Build an environment where engineers take ownership, collaborate, learn, and feel comfortable raising concerns.
Collaborate across Product Engineering and with partners to coordinate dependencies and deliver initiatives.
Recruit and hire talented engineers, participate in interviews, and build an onboarding experience.
Identify and implement improvements to team systems, processes, and ways of working.
Model thoughtful use of AI-assisted development tools and help engineers incorporate AI effectively.
Maintain a high-quality bar for AI-assisted work by ensuring engineers validate output and remain accountable.
Encourage experimentation with new AI capabilities and workflows, sharing successful approaches.

Requirements

A BA/BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent college-level education.
7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
2+ years of experience leading a team of 3+ software engineers.
Experience coaching engineers, providing direct and constructive feedback, and supporting their professional development.
Experience translating product or business priorities into technical plans and driving a team toward successful delivery.
Ability to stay technically engaged to guide design decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and help engineers work through problems.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to create clarity when priorities or requirements are ambiguous.
A track record of building healthy, effective engineering teams while holding a high bar for quality and accountability.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools and the ability to evaluate their output critically.
Sound judgment regarding data privacy, intellectual property, security, and the appropriate use of confidential information when working with AI tools.
Strong technical judgment and a foundation in software architecture, design, data structures, and algorithms.
Fluency with Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar programming language (primarily Java and Go).
Experience recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding software engineers.
Openness to new technologies, new ways of working, and creative solutions.
Comfort working in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

AI-assisted development tools
Data privacy
Intellectual property
Security
Software architecture
Design
Data structures
Algorithms
Java
Go
C++
Python

Location

Rosslyn, VA

Work Type

Hybrid (at least three days per week in office)

Experience Level

7+ years of professional software engineering experience
2+ years of experience leading a team

Education Level

BA/BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent college-level education

Salary/Compensations

$148,500—$303,500 USD

Benefits

Medical benefits
Dental benefits
Vision benefits
Life insurance
Short term disability
Long term disability
401(k) retirement plan
Vacation leave
Sick leave
Variable pay programs based on performance

About the Company

Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the enterprise agentic marketing platform built on the world's most comprehensive structured data platform for local businesses.
Yext gives brands and their partners the visibility intelligence to win every moment of discovery – across AI and traditional search.
Yext's API-first architecture connects structured data to APIs, MCP servers, and generative interfaces.
Thousands of brands and digital marketing partners in financial services, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and food rely on Yext.

Equal Opportunity

Yext is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a results-driven, engaging culture where every employee has the opportunity to contribute to the success of the Company, perform at the highest possible level, and grow their skills and capabilities.
Yext welcomes employees and applicants of all backgrounds and demographics, and does not engage in discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic recognized under applicable law.
The Company believes a broad variety of life experiences across the Yext team is critical to its mission to help every business in the world be visible everywhere customers search.
Yext's policy is to provide reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities as required by applicable law.