Senior Engineering Manager, Location AI

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.

What We Do

Mapbox’s Location AI team aims to make Mapbox the go-to platform for all location-based intelligence. We invest in foundational technologies like Model Context Protocol (MCP) to equip LLMs and AI agents with geospatial expertise and extend our historical strength in delivering high-performance and customizable map interfaces to help our developers reinvent end-user location-based experiences. We envision a world in which maps are an integral part of day-to-day conversational interactions.

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What You'll Do

As the Senior Engineering Manager of Location AI, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team of engineers driving the development of conversational maps and MCP infrastructure, and drive forward Generative AI workflows and initiatives at Mapbox. This role requires deep technical experience in AI systems and API design combined with the ability to drive AI strategy thinking, stay current with the evolving AI landscape, and educate and align the broader business on AI priorities and opportunities.

You will be responsible for organizing your team’s day-to-day work, fostering the growth and development of the people on the team, and aligning the team’s work with the company's priorities. Thousands of customers rely on Mapbox services to seamlessly handle billions of requests every day and scale in real-time to global events. You will lead the delivery of solutions that remain robust, reliable, and innovative in a fast-evolving technological landscape.

• Deliver complex, high-impact projects while providing technical expertise and mentorship to your team.
• Operate your team’s day-to-day and be hands-on in project management and sprint planning.
• Manage operational best practices for on-call and related responsibilities.
• Empathize with internal and external customers delivering features that address their needs.
• Manage and develop the team through hiring, retaining, mentoring, and continually building the team’s capabilities.
• Drive company, product, and team objectives, carrying your team and relevant stakeholders along in the decision-making.
• Work with Product and Engineering teams to develop the long-term business strategy driving the team’s work.
• Establish, track, and iterate on operational metrics to ensure the team is delivering products that meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Determine best engineering practices and promote them within the team and across Mapbox.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, and data-driven decisions on the team.
  
  

What We Believe Are Important Traits For This Role

• 7 years of people management experience: You have managed remote engineering teams leading to product execution and business outcome, while growing and developing a team of engineering talent.
• Hire & Develop: You understand the importance of hiring the best diverse talent and creating a culture where your team members can learn & grow with the organization.
• Technical Expertise: You have experience leading engineering teams that deliver production-grade AI or ML-powered systems. You understand agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, or context protocols.
• AI Strategy & Thought Leadership: You drive AI strategy thinking across teams, translating emerging trends into actionable priorities. You stay current with rapid developments in AI and evaluate their relevance to Mapbox’s mission and products. You educate, influence, and bring the broader business along on AI priorities, ensuring alignment between technical innovation and organizational strategy.
• Operational Excellence: You drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement within your team and personally embody a passion for monitoring, metrics, triage, resolving customer issues, and iterative improvement. You help foster the end-to-end development of clearly designed interfaces, documentation, thorough test coverage, and effective code reviews.
• Ownership & Execution: You own the vision, lead the strategy, and guide the team to execute towards building the future of your product.
• Customer Focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf.
• Strong written and verbal communication: You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a wide audience.
  
  

What We Value

In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.
  
  

Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $261,800 - $315,200 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

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