Senior Engineering Manager, App Excellence

1Password is growing. We’ve surpassed $500M in ARR and we’re continuing to accelerate, earning a spot on the Forbes Cloud 100 for four years in a row and teaming up with iconic partners like Oracle Red Bull Racing.

About 1Password

At 1Password, we’re building the foundation for a safe, productive digital future. Our mission is to unleash employee productivity without compromising security by ensuring every identity is authentic, every application sign-in is secure, and every device is trusted. We innovated the market-leading enterprise password manager and pioneered Unified Access Management, a new cybersecurity category built for the way people and AI agents work today.

As one of the most loved brands in cybersecurity, we take a human-centric approach in everything from product strategy to user experience. Over 180,000 businesses, from Fortune 100 leaders to the world’s most innovative AI companies, trust 1Password to help their teams securely adopt the SaaS and AI tools they need to do their best work.

If you're excited about the opportunity to contribute to the digital safety of millions, to work alongside a team of curious, driven individuals, and to solve hard problems in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, then we want to hear from you. Come join us and help shape a safer, simpler digital future.

App Excellence is responsible for making 1Password reliable, performant, and native across our client and browser surfaces: macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge, and Safari. The domain spans approximately 25 individual contributors across Desktop Excellence, Mobile Excellence, and Browser Extension Excellence, with multiple Engineering Managers and technical leads.

We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead this domain as a connected system. This role goes beyond managing a single team. You will set strategy across platforms, lead through other managers and senior technical leaders, and establish the operating mechanisms that help End User Experience ship with confidence.

You will own the systems that connect customer health signals to engineering action, including reliability metrics, incident response, quality standards, compatibility planning, and cross-team dependency management. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Release Operations, Build and Release, CI, Security, and other organizations to balance customer outcomes, roadmap delivery, and long-term platform health.

How we’re using AI today

Our Engineering, Product, and Design teams are thoughtfully integrating AI across the full software and product development lifecycle to move faster without sacrificing quality or security. In practice, that looks like engineers using AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate reviews and catch bugs earlier, product managers synthesizing user research at scale, and designers rapidly prototyping and iterating with AI-generated mockups.

We approach AI the same way we approach security: with clear principles, human accountability at every consequential decision point, and rigorous evaluation before anything ships to customers.

This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US.

What we're looking for:

• Significant experience leading software engineering teams, including experience managing or developing other engineering leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead across multiple teams, products, or technical domains with shared dependencies.
• Experience setting strategy, shaping an operating model, and turning ambiguous problems into clear priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Strong judgment in balancing delivery speed, quality, reliability, customer impact, and long-term technical health.
• A track record of building effective partnerships across Engineering, Product, Design, and other functions.
• Experience using operational data, customer signals, and delivery metrics to guide decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to create alignment from individual contributors through senior leadership.
• A people-first leadership approach and a commitment to inclusive, healthy, and high-performing teams.

Bonus points for:

• Leading client application, mobile, desktop, browser, platform, or developer infrastructure teams.
• Building operational health, observability, reliability, or quality programs.
• Managing distributed teams and organizations through periods of growth or change.
• Working with release engineering, CI systems, platform vendors, or compatibility programs.
• Experience in security, identity, SaaS, or other products where trust and reliability are central to the customer experience.

What you can expect:

• Set the strategy and operating model for App Excellence across desktop, mobile, and browser extension teams.
• Lead through Engineering Managers, Team Leads, Staff Engineers, and other senior technical leaders, creating clarity, accountability, and a strong leadership bench.
• Establish shared practices for operational health, observability, quality, release readiness, and protection of critical customer journeys.
• Connect signals such as Bad User Days, crashes, latency, incidents, and key-flow success to prioritization and roadmap decisions.
• Drive cross-team planning and trade-offs across platform compatibility, release, build, CI, and other shared dependencies.
• Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Design, Security, Release Operations, and other stakeholders.
• Represent App Excellence in organizational planning, capacity planning, and senior leadership discussions.
• Hire, coach, and develop managers and senior technical leaders while fostering an inclusive, healthy, and high-performing environment.
• Identify systemic risks and create simple, durable mechanisms that improve delivery and customer outcomes.

What success looks like:

• App Excellence has clear ownership, decision rights, and priorities across its teams and platforms.
• Health and quality signals consistently move from detection to ownership to resolution.
• Cross-team delivery is predictable, with dependencies and risks surfaced early.
• Critical customer paths have explicit quality standards and reliable verification practices.
• Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders have the support and autonomy to lead effectively.
• The organization relies less on reactive coordination and individual heroics.

USA-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $230,000 USD and $334,000 USD, plus immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.

Canada-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $202,000 CAD and $293,000 CAD, plus immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.

At 1Password, we approach each individual's compensation with a promise of fair market value and internal equity commensurate with experience and specific skill set.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Our culture

At 1Password, we prioritize collaboration, clear and transparent communication, receptiveness to feedback, and alignment with our core values: keep it simple, lead with honesty, and put people first.

You’ll be part of a team that challenges the status quo, and is excited to experiment and iterate in search of the best solution. That said, 1Password is not for everyone https://blog.1password.com/inside-the-culture-powering-1passwords-next-chapter/. Our work is demanding, we strive for excellence, and the pace is fast. We need people who are keen to take on challenging problems, who seek feedback to grow, and who are driven to make an impact.

If you're looking for a place where you can settle into a comfortable routine, this might not be the right fit for you. We’re looking for individuals who are proven experts in their fields, as well as those who are highly adaptable, can thrive in ambiguity and through change, are curious, and above all deliver results.

How we work with AI

We are committed to leveraging cutting-edge technology—including AI—to achieve our mission. We also understand that thinking critically about AI in its current forms will help us create better solutions for our customers and ourselves with its future forms, which will help us continue to close the gap between security and privacy and achieve our mission. We want team members at all levels to take the approach of actively learning AI best practices, identifying opportunities to apply AI in meaningful ways, and driving innovative solutions in their daily work.

Embracing the future of AI isn't just encouraged—it's an essential part of how we will be successful at 1Password.

This approach extends to our hiring process—candidates are welcome to use AI tools responsibly and thoughtfully during the application process. To us, this means we do ask that you join live interviews without using AI tools so we can get to know how you communicate, solve problems, and collaborate with others.

Our approach to remote work

We believe in the power of remote work, but recognize that in-person connection is important to help us achieve our mission. While we are a remote-first company, travel for in-person engagement is a part of almost all roles, and we require our employees to be ready and willing to take part. Frequency will depend on role and responsibilities, and may include, but is not limited to: annual department-wide offsites, team meetings, and customer/industry events.

What we offer

We believe in working hard, and rewarding that hard work through our benefits. While not an exhaustive list, here is a glance at what we currently offer:

Health and wellbeing

👶 Maternity and parental leave top-up programs

🩺 Competitive health benefits

🏝 Generous PTO policy

Growth and future

📈 RSU program for most employees

💸 Retirement matching program

🔑 Free 1Password account

Community

🤝 Paid volunteer days

🏆 Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly

🌎 Remote-first work environment

*Some roles in our GTM team are currently being hired for in-person hybrid work in Toronto and Austin. These roles will specify on the posting.

You belong here.

1Password is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace that is built on trust, support and respect. We welcome all individuals and do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, colour, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, citizenship, education, languages spoken or veteran status. Be yourself, find your people and share the things you love.

Accommodation is available upon request at any point during our recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please speak to your talent acquisition partner or email us at nextbit@agilebits.com and we’ll work to meet your needs.

Remote work is a part of our DNA. Given that our company was founded remotely in 2005, we can safely say we're experts at building remote culture. That said, remote work at 1Password does mean working from your home country. If you've got questions or concerns about this, your talent partner would be happy to address them with you.

Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check that may consist of prior employment verification, reference checks, education confirmation, criminal background, publicly available social media, credit history, or other information, as permitted by local law.

1Password uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, including natural language processing and predictive analytics, to assist in the initial screening of employment