Role Description As an Engineering Manager, you will deliver results through the leadership of experienced engineers and specialists who operate with a high degree of autonomy and accountability. This role leads an engineering team supporting advisor‑facing digital experiences, including advisor profiles, advisor search, and advisor‑to‑client matching within the Connections product space. You will provide strategic and operational direction aligned to organizational objectives, establish team‑level practices and operating norms, and partner closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to drive discovery, prioritization, and delivery. The Engineering Manager is responsible for developing team objectives, metrics, and capacity plans, fostering strong engineering culture and feedback practices, and translating enterprise policies into clear guidance that enables teams to deliver high‑quality, discoverable, and scalable solutions that advance Thrivent’s digital advisor experience. Duties & Responsibilities - Designing Solutions - Review technical solution design and architecture and provide guidance and direction. - Take part in system design and architecture conversations with the team to land approaches to deliver solutions. - Review technical solution and support the execution of the solution. - Tie solutions back to user impact and business objectives. - Developing Software - Has developed software. - Can read code and stays up to date on best practices. - Ensure code reviews are completed - problem solving and analytical skills. - Ability to tie practical engineering experience into mentorship of engineering staff. - Learning and applying new techniques. - Promotes and empowers sharing ideas, best practices, etc. - Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on the business. - Adept at connecting new techniques to the team that promotes organic adoption. - Collaborating within team - Supports the team agile practices and learning events/trainings. - Helps break down barriers for the team. - Engages in sprint demos; understands the desired and actual outcomes as well as the technology delivered by the team. - Partner with Product Manager on initiatives/features/epics and provides clarity on desired outcomes as well as technical expertise. - Collaborates with Product Manager for strategies, operating plans, targets, and measures for product groups. - Creates a positive team environment where individuals have psychological safety and work collaboratively while understanding, respecting, challenging, and appreciating each other’s ideas. - Collaborating across teams - Supports and empowers teams to broker solutions across products. - Understands how the product integrates with other products and ensures consistency in approach to work towards a common goal/outcome. - Builds strong working relationships with peers across teams. - Proactively identifies cross-team challenges and works to empower teams to solve collaboratively. - Collaborating across the organization - Align your team with the priorities of the company and the technology organization for a given product area. - Setting product/platform technology strategy - Leads in setting the product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps, objectives, and alignments. - Represents the business value of technology upgrades, etc., and influences prioritization in the product roadmap. - Empowers the team to select the right tool and platforms for the given product area. - Can tell the story of how our technical strategy delivers positive outcomes for our product from a user-centric perspective. - Defining Engineering standards/patterns - Collaborating with Engineers to ensure Engineering practices are clear and effective. - Promote engineering practices and continuous improvement (both in our processes and our products). - Contributes to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns. - Proactively intervene when standards are not being followed and correct the behavior or process. - Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors - Be an advocate to the team to define criteria for selecting the right platform/technology. - Guides the team to build consensus on an approach and driving a build vs buy decision with the team. - Execute or manage the overall technology solutions, platforms for the product groups and associated vendor relationships. - Coaching Engineers - Provide timely constructive feedback, guidance, and coaching to help engineers grow as engineering professionals. - Provide career planning advice to engineers and create development plans to help them achieve their career goals. - Actively mentor team members through direct connections and alignment to their long-term career goals. - Recruiting/building talent - Lead the process of selecting and engaging the right consulting partners. - Plan in advance for future people needs for the product group, collaborate with the other teams on the recruitment process. - Recruit, develop, and sustain a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization. - Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable. - Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients. - Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise, and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients. - Manage a team of direct and indirect staff. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience. - 8+ years of progressively responsible positions in Information Technology including 5+ years’ experience in IT discipline, e.g., customer relationship management, portfolio strategy, and roadmap development. - 3+ years of leadership experience in all aspects of a specific IT discipline, e.g. customer relationship management, portfolio strategy, and/or demand management. - 3+ years’ management/supervisory experience in specific IT functional area discipline, e.g. applications development or equivalent skills leading major technical projects with accountability for enforcing talent management needs and performance standards. - Demonstrated leadership and experience managing multidiscipline, high-performance work teams. - Strong competency in project management and execution of multiple or large projects. - Experience working with customers to develop solutions to complex business problems. - Proven ability to communicate effectively with internal/external stakeholders to support business initiatives. - Proven ability to function in an environment which requires flexibility, good judgment, and intelligent decision-making, often based on limited information and/or extreme conditions. - Ability to formulate, implement, and evaluate plans, programs, and procedures applicable to customer relationship and demand management. Preferred - Financial Services industry experience. - Experience in marketing/customer acquisition products. - Experience in front-end technical development. - Experience using experimentation to deliver iterative user feedback. - Experience working in a matrix management organization. - Experience with product development and management. Pay Transparency Thrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $139,455.00 - $188,676.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important. Benefits - Various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives). - Medical, dental, and vision insurance. - Health savings account. - Flexible spending account. - 401k. - Pension. - Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance. - Disability insurance. - Supplemental protection insurance. - 20 days of Paid Time Off each year. - Sick and Safe Time. - 10 paid company holidays. - Volunteer Time Off. - Paid parental leave. - EAP. - Well-being benefits, and other employee benefits.

Role Description In your role as Technology Lead, Experience Engineering within our Digital organization, you are responsible for delivering customer-facing marketing website and ecommerce experiences. Specifically, you will lead our Experience Engineering team, focused on building and optimizing digital experiences that drive engagement and conversion. As a technology leader, you will build and lead a lean, high-performing team using agile principles to design and deliver scalable, high-quality solutions. With a strong customer-centric perspective, you will focus on delivering measurable improvements in user engagement, performance, and business outcomes. You will also play a key role in advancing how AI is applied within engineering workflows, helping the team operate more efficiently and effectively. As the Technology Lead, you will divide your time between team leadership and hands-on development, leading engineers while contributing directly to delivery. You will partner closely with Marketing, Design, Platform Engineering, and DevOps, using data and insights to guide decisions and continuously improve the customer experience. You will collaborate with other technology leads to provide technical direction and alignment across teams, and must be comfortable adapting your leadership style to the situation, leading when needed and contributing as an individual engineer when appropriate. Job Duties - Embrace agile methodologies and a customer-centric digital experience model to drive iterative development and rapid time-to-market - Lead delivery of customer-facing features across web and ecommerce - Define, prioritize, and communicate work clearly across Marketing, Design, and Engineering stakeholders - Design and build scalable frontend solutions, including component systems - Contribute directly to critical development work - Engage stakeholders to understand needs and guide solution decisions - Collaborate with Platform Engineering on CMS, commerce, and API integrations - Monitor performance, analyze metrics, and use experimentation to drive continuous improvement in conversion and engagement - Ensure reliable, high-performing experiences through strong testing and quality practices - Drive consistency through reusable components and shared standards - Stay current with modern frontend and AI-assisted development practices - Apply AI-assisted development practices to improve team efficiency and delivery quality - Build a focused, accountable, high-performing team culture Qualifications - Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent combination of education and recent relevant work experience required - 5+ years in a technical leadership or team lead role, including developing technology strategies and driving innovation - Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js or similar) - Experience building component libraries or design systems - Understanding of web performance, accessibility, and SEO - Experience integrating with CMS, ecommerce platforms, and APIs - Experience working in agile teams - Excellent verbal and written communication skills Requirements - Experience in ecommerce or high-traffic consumer websites - Familiarity with headless CMS and composable architectures - Experience with experimentation or personalization - Experience using AI-assisted development tools Benefits - Comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees - Eligibility to participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program - 15% Annual: Individual Target - Base pay range: $101,900.00 - $175,000.00 USD

• Coach and support the engineers on your team • Partner closely with product, design, and other technology leaders • Attract and retain strong engineering talent • Keep your team unblocked and moving • Collaborate with other engineering groups on integrations, best practices, and new technologies • Lead tier-3 engineering support for your domain • Identify opportunities for innovation in products, tooling, and processes

Role Description ProRata.ai is building the future of digital advertising for the AI era. Powered by patent-pending AI agent technology, ProRata Ads delivers highly contextual, prompt-driven advertising that understands both brand intent and content semantics in real time. Our platform powers innovative ad experiences across Gist.ai and a growing network of premium publishers. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager (Tech Lead) to play a foundational role in designing and scaling our ProRata Ads infrastructure. You will own critical components of the ad serving system, including low-latency ad decisioning, agentic backend workflows, robust reporting, and fraud detection. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership position. You will blend deep technical architecture with team guidance, working closely with frontend, product, and business development teams to deliver a next-generation ad platform that is scalable, reliable, and truly AI-native. - Lead the design and development of our core ad serving infrastructure, ensuring high throughput, sub-100ms latency, and extreme reliability at scale. - Architect and build agentic backend systems powered by LLMs — enabling intelligent workflows for contextual ad placement, creative optimization, real-time brand safety, and dynamic decisioning. - Partner closely with the frontend team on campaign management, creative generation/optimization, and advertiser-facing tools. - Design and implement scalable reporting, analytics, and fraud detection systems to maintain ecosystem trust and performance transparency. - Drive technical strategy for cloud-native, distributed systems — making trade-offs around cost, latency, availability, and AI inference efficiency. - Mentor and grow a team of strong engineers; provide technical leadership, conduct code/design reviews, and help recruit top talent. - Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Ads Engineering, and Business Development to translate business needs into robust, production-ready systems. - Contribute to our evolving technical roadmap, with emphasis on GenAI integration, prompt-based advertising, and seamless performance in AI surfaces. Qualifications - 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3–5 years in a technical leadership or engineering manager role. - Extensive hands-on experience building or scaling ad serving systems for display, native, or search-based advertising (experience at SSPs, DSPs, or large ad platforms is highly valued). - Strong proficiency in at least one of: Python, Java, C++, Rust — with proven ability to write production-grade, high-performance code. - Deep experience designing large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including high availability, low-latency architectures, and observability. - Solid understanding of GenAI/LLM concepts; experience with prompt engineering, agentic workflows, or GPU-based inference (CUDA/ROCm) is a strong plus. - Track record of delivering complex, high-impact systems end-to-end in fast-moving environments. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills — able to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). Preferred Qualifications - Prior experience building advertising technology systems at scale. - Hands-on work with large language models, inference optimization, or agent-based architectures. - Startup experience — comfort operating with high ownership, evolving requirements, and limited resources. - Familiarity with programmatic advertising concepts (OpenRTB, real-time bidding, contextual targeting) and ad quality/fraud challenges. Compensation - The compensation for this position is competitive and commensurate with experience including: - Base salary range: $220,000 - $260,000 - Equity participation What We Offer - Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI technology - Collaborative and innovative work environment - Competitive salary and benefits package - Professional development and growth opportunities - Chance to make a significant impact on the company's success Equal Employment Opportunity ProRata is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. California Specific Notices - At-Will Employment: Employment at ProrataAI is at-will. This means that either the employee or the employer may terminate employment at any time, with or without cause or prior notice. - Salary Disclosure: In compliance with California law, salary information is provided to ensure transparency and fairness. - California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA): ProrataAI complies with the CCPA. Personal information collected during the recruitment process will be used for employment purposes only.