Engineering Manager - Workflows and UI Foundations (f/m/d)

About the Opportunity We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead two highly leveraged platform teams at Contentful: UI Foundations and Workflows UI Foundations owns Contentful’s core web UI foundations and design system so teams can build modern, consistent, accessible product experiences faster. Workflows owns Contentful’s Orchestration Platform — the workflow + automation engine behind approvals, tasks, triggers, and action execution. This is a high-impact role with broad reach: your work will accelerate many product teams and improve the foundation customers rely on every day. What to expect? In this role you’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across the business to understand strategy and goals, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners to keep our architecture, tech stack, and development practices aligned to deliver impact. Build and support high-performing, globally distributed teams, with a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement. Partner closely with Product and Design to shape and deliver the roadmap for UI Foundations and Workflows, balancing near-term needs with long-term platform health. Enable platform adoption across teams through clear interfaces, documentation, migration support, and predictable release practices. Evolve UI Foundations (Web App shell navigation, Navigation Framework, Forma 36, localization, accessibility, shared frontend packages) so teams can ship consistent, accessible experiences with confidence. Evolve the orchestration platform (workflow APIs, execution semantics, integrations/actions, reliability/observability) to support approvals, tasks, triggers, and automation at scale. Strengthen operational practices with healthy on-call/support models, incident response, post-incident learning, and measurable reliability improvements. Coach and develop engineers across levels, supporting growth, feedback, and sustainable delivery habits. Collaborate with AI Enablement and product teams so AI-powered capabilities (e.g., AI Actions/Suggestions) integrate cleanly into workflows and UI foundations with clear boundaries and reliable behavior. What you need to be successful? We’re looking for an Engineering Manager who enjoys platform environments where success depends on adoption, stability, and strong partnership with many internal customers. To succeed in this role, you should: 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional development teams and delivering complex solutions with Product and Design partners. Comfortable working in ambiguity and change , bringing structure and clarity while balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform strategy. Experience with platform or foundational teams where success depends on adoption, stability, documentation, and thoughtful rollout/migration support. Technical breadth across modern web platforms and backend distributed systems ; able to review architecture, ask strong questions, and help teams make good tradeoffs (app shell/navigation, design systems, shared packages, APIs, workflow engines, event-driven execution). Familiarity with event-driven distributed systems concepts such as queues, orchestration, retries, idempotency, long-running workflows, and reliability—enough to guide discussions and support strong engineering decisions. Strong quality mindset for platforms : observability, incident readiness, performance, safe rollout practices (versioning, backwards compatibility, migrations, deprecations). Experience supporting accessibility and localization work in a way that becomes part of normal engineering practice (not a one-off effort). Product-minded : able to translate early ideas into workable technical options and tradeoffs, especially where flexibility and simplicity need careful balance. Strong collaboration across many stakeholders and teams , helping align on priorities, dependencies, and sequencing with transparency. People leadershi ... (truncated, view full listing at source)