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Posted: April 24, 2026
Location: India
Timezone: Overlap with US East Coast hours required 3–4 days/week during ramp-up
Zapier is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Enterprise Integrations organization in India and serve as our India Eng Leader. In this role, you'll manage two engineering teams that build and maintain the most critical integrations in the Zapier product, while also representing and growing Zapier's engineering presence in India.
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll lead through other leaders and senior ICs — spending the majority of your time on people leadership, cross-team strategy, org health, and site leadership, while remaining technically credible enough to shape architecture, review designs, and jump into the code when the moment calls for it. You'll own the technical strategy that positions Zapier as the most trusted provider of integrations in the market and set the bar for how AI-native engineering looks at Zapier.
About YouYou are a seasoned engineering leader. You have 7+ years of engineering experience with at least 4+ years managing engineers, and meaningful experience as a manager-of-managers or leading multiple teams simultaneously. You've hired, developed, and retained senior and staff-level engineers, and you know how to scale a team without losing velocity or culture.
You're a people leader first. You coach senior engineers on scope, influence, and technical leadership — not just on code. You run a rigorous performance management cycle: clear expectations, honest feedback, career ladders people can actually navigate, and the hard conversations when someone isn't a fit. You've grown ICs into tech leads and ICs into managers.
You own team performance end-to-end. You measure what matters — delivery predictability, quality, incident load, customer impact, engineer engagement — and you act on it. You know the difference between a process problem, a people problem, and a strategy problem, and you address each at the right altitude.
You're a founding leader. You understand that being the most senior engineering leader on the ground in India means more than managing your own teams. You build culture, represent Zapier in the local market, partner with Recruiting on hiring strategy, ensure new hires ramp well, and act as the connective tissue between India-based engineers and the rest of the globally distributed org.
You're an AI-native leader. You actively use AI tools (coding assistants, agents, LLM-powered internal tooling) to improve your own productivity and you push your teams to do the same. You can point to concrete examples where you've used AI to reduce cycle time, automate toil, improve code quality, or accelerate onboarding. You have opinions about where AI genuinely helps engineering teams and where it doesn't, and you evolve those opinions with the evidence.
You're a hands-on technical leader. You enjoy spending a portion of your time in the code, in design reviews, and in architectural discussions. You've led project planning and execution, shaped architectural decisions, and shipped products end-to-end. You're comfortable with developer experience design, authentication systems, and distributed systems architecture, and you understand AI/ML systems in production — including shipping products built on LLMs.
You're a collaborator and an advocate. You partner closely with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to align on a shared vision. You actively seek input, integrate feedback, and communicate transparently — building the trust that lets teams navigate change and tough trade-offs.
You have deep customer empathy. Zapier's integrations are the heart of the product. You work with your teams to improve the customer experience and participate in programs that sharpen our product offerings.
You have excellent communication skills. You balance engineering concerns (technical debt, reliability, developer experience) with product and business concerns, and when the right answer isn't obvious, you build shared understanding around the decision.
Things You'll Do
Lead and grow two engineering teams
Own team health and delivery performance
Drive AI-powered productivity
Act as Engineering Lead for India
Shape technical and product strategy
Support Zapier's engineering org broadly
About the Level
We're targeting a Senior Engineering Manager for this role, and we're sharing compensation ranges for both Engineering Manager and Senior Engineering Manager so you have full context going in.
That said, we know leveling isn't always clean. If you're a strong Engineering Manager on the path to Senior EM, we'd still like to hear from you. We'll assess leveling as part of the hiring process and be transparent with you about where we land and why.
The core difference we're evaluating: a Senior EM in this role sets direction across multiple teams and coaches other managers, not just engineers. An Engineering Manager who can demonstrate they're ready to grow into that scope is someone we'd consider seriously.
Application Deadline:The anticipated application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later, or if the position is filled.
Even though we’re an all-remote company, we still need to be thoughtful about where we have Zapiens working. Check out this resource for a list of countries where we currently cannot have Zapiens permanently working.
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Zapier is an American software company that provides a platform for business process automation and application integration services. Its platform allows users to move data across web-based applications, automate tasks, and incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into workflows and systems. The company was founded in 2011, and officially launched in 2012 as part of the Y Combinator startup accelerator program. As a low-code/no-code platform, Zapier is intended for users with minimal to moderate technical knowledge. As of 2026, the platform has expanded its ecosystem to support integrations across more than 9,000 distinct web applications, facilitating over 66,000 individual automated triggers and actions.
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