Senior Manager, Software Development (Nova)

<p>Vidyard is the leading provider of AI-powered video messaging, video hosting, sales prospecting, and buyer engagement solutions for modern revenue teams. Trusted by over 100,000 companies, Vidyard empowers go-to-market teams to connect with buyers in more personal, impactful ways at scale. From prospecting to post-sale, Vidyard helps businesses accelerate deal cycles, increase close rates, and humanize digital communication. With best-in-class AI-generated video tools, real-time engagement analytics, and AI-powered video workflows, Vidyard is redefining how companies grow revenue through video.</p> <h3><strong>About the Role </strong></h3> <p>Vidyard is looking for a <strong>Senior Manager, Software Development </strong>to join our <strong>Nova </strong>team - the team behind our <strong>AI Video Agent</strong> and Vidyard's most experimental product bets. Reporting directly to our CTO, you'll guide a high-performing team building one of our most critical and fast-moving platforms, while contributing to how great engineering gets done across Vidyard. Through your technical coaching and guidance, you will create a supportive and challenging environment for your team to thrive, and participate in broader initiatives to help level up our engineering team as a whole.<br><br>This position is available to candidates who are currently located and eligible to work in Canada.</p> <h3><strong>About the Team</strong></h3> <p>Our Nova Team is composed of 5 developers, a Designer, a Staff Product Manager, and a Staff Software Developer. We are dedicated to creating and enhancing Vidyard’s Video Agent feature, continually improving and expanding its functionality. </p> <h3><strong>What You’ll Work On</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Play an active role in evolving how our Engineering team works including helping the department build fluency in AI-assisted development practices so teams ship faster, experiment smarter, and stay ahead of how the craft is changing.</li> <li>Stay close to the evolving AI landscape so your team makes informed decisions on architecture, tooling, and experimentation — and bring that context into how Nova builds</li> <li>Help shape AI-assisted development practices across Engineering, modeling curiosity and responsible use so teams ship faster and the broader department stays ahead of how the craft is changing</li> <li>Refining your team’s charter and direction to maximize Vidyard’s growth.</li> <li>Fostering strong cross-functional business and technical decisions, with Product Managers and Designers, influencing broad and impactful decisions.</li> <li>Growing and developing an incredible team of hardworking and motivated developers with high expectations around individual ownership and impact.</li> <li>Ensuring the delivery of team projects and outcomes to drive forward business goals.</li> <li>Partnering with other leaders and the team to craft technical and product strategy.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Developing a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies Vidyard's values.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></h3> <ul> <li>5-7 years experience leading a development team in a cross-functional environment</li> <li>10+ years of functional experience in Software Development, SaaS experience considered a plus. </li> <li>Hands-on familiarity with AI concepts relevant to SaaS product development (agents, LLMs, prompt design, model evaluation tradeoffs) to engage substantively with your team's technical decisions and ask the right questions</li> <li>Proven track record of delivering great solutions to complex problems while balancing technical and product concerns.</li> <li>Have effectively hired, onboarded, and managed a team of developers reporting to you.</li> <li>You invest in your people's growth with the same rigor you apply to technical problems — setting high expectations, giving direct feedback, and creating real development opportunities</li> <li>You build team environments where people do ... (truncated, view full listing at source)