Senior Engineering Manager, Estimation

Hover helps people design, improve, and protect the properties they love. With proprietary AI built on over a decade of real property data, Hover answers age-old questions like “What will it look like?” and “What will it cost?” Homeowners, contractors, and insurance professionals rely on Hover to get fully measured, accurate, and interactive 3D models of any property — all from a smartphone scan in minutes.

At Hover, we’re driven by curiosity, purpose, and a shared commitment to serving our customers, communities, and each other. We believe the best ideas come from diverse perspectives and are proud to cultivate an inclusive, high-performance culture that inspires growth, accountability, and excellence. Backed by leading investors like Google Ventures and Menlo Ventures, and trusted by industry leaders including Travelers, State Farm, and Nationwide — we’re redefining how people understand and interact with their spaces.

About the role

Today, contractors juggle a stack of disconnected tools to run their business: a CRM, a measurement app, an estimating tool, a photo app. Hover already owns the measurement. Now we're building the estimate, the step that turns a completed scope into a signed deal. We just launched a major update to our estimation product, and it's showing early signs of success with enterprise customers testing it in the real world. You'll lead the team that takes it further, building an estimating product that stands on its own, tightly integrated with Hover's measurements and our 3D generative AI interaction product. It sits on top of Hover's property data, where we're giving contractors and adjusters new ways to see a property and derive the work to be done from it.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for Hover's estimating product line end-to-end, making the case for what wins with enterprise customers rather than shipping a feature list.
• Define and move two connected but distinct use cases: retail and restoration/insurance claims, without forking the product, the roadmap, or the team.
• Manage the Estimates team directly (six engineers today) and partner weekly with a standing product, design, and data group to keep everyone shipping toward one agreed direction.
• Lead the move to a more flexible estimating engine, one that can take in more kinds of inputs, including what comes out of an inspection or assessment, without forking logic per use case.
• Reduce the cost of maintaining the estimates system, including an in-flight consolidation into the main application, favoring removal of legacy functionality over building around it.
• Partner with the catalog team to build a standalone pricing function so a Hover estimate can carry its own pricing.
• Engage directly with enterprise customers whose workflows are shaping this roadmap.
• Hire and grow the team as scope expands.

Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 4+ managing engineering teams, with real ownership over a product line's roadmap rather than execution against someone else's plan.
• Full cycle of people management: hiring and leveling, coaching senior engineers, running performance conversations, and promoting people into bigger scope.
• Experience managing more than one team or focus area at once.
• Experience managing engineers who've built systems with real pricing, configuration, or rules logic.
• Technical depth strong enough to make architecture calls and defend them.
• AI fluency in how a team builds: a point of view on where generative tooling belongs in the workflow, how to roll it out, and how to tell whether it's actually working.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with estimating, quoting, CPQ, or catalog and pricing platforms in any vertical.
• Experience taking a product from early traction to something enterprise customers run production work through.
• Experience with partner, distributor, or third-party integration ecosystems.
• Background in construction, roofing, restoration, or insurance claims software, including carrier-side estimating and claims acceptance standards.
• Experience building on 3D, spatial, or computer vision derived data.
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, GraphQL federation, or Postgres.

Benefits

• Compensation - Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company.
• Healthcare - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents.
• Paid Time Off - Unlimited and flexible vacation policy.
• Paid Family Leave - Generous paid parental and new child bonding leave.
• Mandatory Self-Care Days - A day set aside each month to allow employees to recharge.
• Remote Wellbeing Resources - Recurring fitness classes, meditation/mindfulness tools, virtual therapy, and family planning assistance.
• Learning - Encouragement and financial support for continued education, including management training, conferences, workshops, or certifications.

Schedule

Hybrid roles at Hover: Employees living within a 50-mile radius of our offices in San Francisco or New York City are expected to come into their local Hover office at least three times a week.

Pay

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $227,000-$280,000 annually. The range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries across all applicable US locations. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.