CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 38 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences.
The Engineering Manager, CLEAR1 Strategic Partnerships Platform (StratP) is responsible for leading the engineering team that builds partner integrations, healthcare-related workflows, identity and authentication capabilities, and reusable platform improvements that strengthen CLEAR1’s customer offerings. In this role, you’ll drive execution, technical direction, and team development across a high-leverage platform area, turning strategic partner and market needs into scalable, reliable capabilities that improve delivery quality and create long-term business value.
What you’ll do:
- Lead, coach, and develop engineers through hiring, feedback, performance management, and career growth
- Drive roadmap execution by setting priorities, running strong planning cadences, and delivering against CLEAR1 business commitments
- Partner across Product, Design, Operations, and Engineering to translate partner and customer needs into scalable platform capabilities
- Lead delivery across work spanning partner integrations, healthcare-related workflows, identity and authentication capabilities, and reusable platform improvements for CLEAR1
- Guide architecture, technical tradeoffs, and dependency management to improve reliability, speed, and long-term platform leverage
How you’ll measure success:
- Improved roadmap predictability and delivery against planned commitments
- Clearer prioritization and stronger execution across competing demands and shared dependencies
- Better ownership clarity across partner-facing integrations, identity flows, and customer-facing platform capabilities
- Stronger engineering quality across reliability, observability, testing, and operational excellence
- Increased delivery of reusable capabilities that improve partner offerings, healthcare workflows, and long-term customer value
What you're great at:
- 3+ years of experience managing and developing software engineers, with strong coaching and team leadership skills
- Experienced across the full software development lifecycle, including coding, architecture, and system design
- Strong communicator who can translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for cross-functional partners and earn their trust
- Proficient in modern object-oriented languages, design patterns, and engineering best practices
- Experienced in building cloud-native applications and scalable distributed systems
- Comfortable working across teams and disciplines to deliver cohesive, end-to-end experiences
- Deeply curious about how technology can enhance human-centered, high-touch service experiences
- Motivated by continuous learning, improvement, and delivering real-world impact at scale
How You'll be Rewarded:
At CLEAR we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members who are motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our hybrid work environment provides flexibility. In our offices, you’ll enjoy benefits like meals and snacks. We invest in your well-being and learning & development with our stipend and reimbursement programs.
We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
The total compensation range for this role is $275,000-$350,000, depending on levels of skills and experience.
This range represents the combined base salary, annual bonus incentive, and new hire equity package (in Restricted Stock Units) for this position at CLEAR. Additionally, this role will be eligible for refresh equity grants as part of our ongoing compensation program. Actual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, location, education, skills, experience, and performance. All stock based compensation will be subject to the terms and conditions of applicable agreements.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
CLEAR provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or protected needs. Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include, but are not limited to, time off, extra breaks, making a change to the application process or work procedures, policy exceptions, providing documents in an alternative format, live captioning or using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.
We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity.