Hire a Engineering Manager.

Engineering managers convert a group of engineers into a delivery system — hiring, coaching, prioritization, and the shielding that lets a team do deep work. The market is full of managers promoted for tenure rather than aptitude, so our screens focus on evidence of deliberate management: how they have handled underperformance, made promotion cases, and rebuilt a struggling team. We also calibrate the hands-on expectation honestly, since 'player-coach' postings often describe two jobs.