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Manager, Engineering
$260K–$285K
San Francisco, CA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years managing engineering teams.
About the job
Leads the founding engineering team building an agent-first recruiting product that helps companies find, evaluate, and contact experienced talent.
What you'll do
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers while establishing the team’s culture and operating processes.
- Own product engineering end to end and shape early architecture and technical direction.
- Drive cross-functional execution and partner with product, design, outreach, candidate data, and AI/ML search and retrieval teams.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including teams with senior and staff engineers.
- Strong people-management skills and a record of developing engineers’ careers.
- Deep technical background to contribute to architecture and evaluate system trade-offs.
- Track record delivering large cross-functional projects on aggressive timelines.
Nice to have
- Zero-to-one experience building a new product or major product surface.
- Experience with AI/LLM-powered products, agents, evaluation systems, or self-serve/product-led growth products.
Pay
$260K – $285K USD base salary
AI focus
Lead engineering for an agent-first recruiting product that builds candidate profiles, finds and refines matches, and drafts and sends personalized outreach; collaborate with AI/ML search and retrieval teams.
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