Engineering manager resume guide
Manager resumes should show outcomes through people and process: delivery, quality, roadmap execution, and cross-functional leadership.
What to emphasize
- • Team outcomes (delivery speed, reliability, business impact)
- • Hiring, mentoring, and performance management
- • Roadmap execution and stakeholder alignment
- • Process improvements (incident response, planning, quality)
Bullet examples
Managed a team of 8 engineers delivering a payments roadmap; improved release cadence from monthly to weekly and reduced Sev-1 incidents by 25%.
Partnered with Product and Design to define metrics-driven goals; increased retention by 2.0% while reducing infrastructure spend by 10%.