Engineering Manager, Checkout & Payments
About Superhuman
Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Superhuman Docs’ collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters.
The Opportunity
At Superhuman, we are consolidating billing, checkout, and payments ownership across all Superhuman business units: Docs, Go, Grammarly, and Mail, into a single Monetization Platform. As Engineering Manager of the Checkout & Payments team, you will lead the team responsible for how every Superhuman customer pays us: checkout experiences, fraud prevention, payment method integrations, and the reliability of our checkout and payments infrastructure. This is a founding-moment role. You are joining as we migrate from multiple fragmented billing systems to a single, unified stack and build a configurable checkout platform that enables any Superhuman product team to launch new checkout experiences with speed and at scale. You will own a broad charter, partner closely with product and engineering leads across all business units, and drive execution on some of the most business-critical infrastructure in the company.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a team of engineers owning checkout surfaces, vendor integrations for enabling payments, and the reliability of Superhuman's checkout platform and payments API
- Partner with BU engineering and product leads to scope, prioritize, and ship checkout and payment features for Docs, Go, Grammarly, and Mail
- Own the team's business and technical health metrics
- Drive payment method integrations, expanding what customers can pay with and ensuring global coverage
- Build technical leadership from within the team, creating conditions for senior engineers to step into broader ownership over time
- Contribute to the broader Monetization Platform as we unify billing, checkout, and payments infrastructure across all Superhuman products
Qualifications
- 3+ years of engineering management experience leading teams of 5–10 engineers
- Strong technical judgment, you can guide architecture decisions, evaluate trade-offs, and set direction for the team
- Comfort with platform and infrastructure work: critical, often invisible, always high-stakes
- The ability to make good decisions with incomplete information and change course as new data arrives
- A track record of managing multiple concurrent workstreams across time zones and diverse stakeholder groups.
- Payments, fintech, or commerce domain experience preferred
- Has a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal guidance, proactively manages tasks and priorities across multiple projects, analyzes and executes work efficiently, collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, and thrives in fast-paced, results-driven environments.
Support for you, professionally and personally
- Professional Growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being
- A connected team: Superhuman builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first, hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture rooted in our values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our team member resource groups, Superhuman Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs.
- Comprehensive benefits for candidates based in Germany: Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing life care (including mental health care and risk benefits) and ample and defined time off. We also offer support to set up a home office, wellness and pet care stipends, learning and development opportunities, and more.
- Relocation Support: Superhuman provides relocation support to make your move to Berlin seamless. Our package includes visa assistance, destination services to help you and your family settle in comfortably, and a relocation bonus to cover additional expenses, such as temporary housing.
Equal Opportunity Statement
At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. Superhuman is an equal opportunity company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, sexual identity, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, criminal prosecution, judgment in a criminal case, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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