Senior Engineering Manager, Agent Platform & Growth

Team: IT

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Lead and grow two engineering teams responsible for human onboarding and activation and agent-facing platform experiences, maintaining clear missions and focus as the organization scales.

• Own the engineering roadmap for the self-serve journey, covering initial discovery, onboarding, activation, monetization, usage expansion, feature adoption, and progression to product-qualified leads.

• Drive development of agent-facing experiences through programmatic interfaces including APIs, SDKs, CLI tooling, MCP integrations, and infrastructure blueprints.

• Partner closely with Product and Design to align technical roadmaps with customer needs, platform capabilities, and growth objectives.

• Hire, coach, develop, and retain engineers while establishing effective performance management and career-development practices, particularly for senior individual contributors.

• Provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, code reviews, prototyping, and hands-on contribution when valuable to the teams.

• Balance long-term platform architecture and scalability with iterative improvements to onboarding, activation, and product adoption.

• Build organizational structure and operating practices that support continued team growth, including evolving responsibilities as the engineering organization expands.

• Establish a culture of high engineering standards, ownership, collaboration, continuous learning, and constructive feedback.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading engineering teams, with strong people leadership and a demonstrated ability to build, scale, and develop multiple teams.

• Proven experience growing an engineering organization from a relatively small group into a larger structure, including hiring, team development, and organizational evolution.

• Experience managing and developing senior engineers, including performance management, career planning, feedback, and promotion processes.

• Strong software engineering background with enough technical depth to review code, guide architecture, prototype solutions, and contribute directly when needed.

• Experience connecting engineering investments to product outcomes, particularly customer growth, onboarding, activation, adoption, or monetization.

• Strong product instincts and the ability to work effectively with Product and Design partners without taking over their responsibilities.

• Comfort operating in ambiguous, rapidly changing environments where priorities evolve and teams need to make decisions with incomplete information.

• Experience working in startup or high-growth technology environments is valuable, particularly where speed, ownership, and adaptability are important.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build trust, facilitate thoughtful debate, and provide clear direction across functions.

• A growth mindset, high integrity, humility, and willingness to continuously learn and improve.

• Experience with developer platforms, DevTools, or developer-facing products is an advantage.

• Experience building growth-focused engineering experiences such as onboarding, activation, or funnel optimization is an advantage.

• Familiarity with AI-agent experiences and integrations with tools such as Codex, Claude, or Cursor is an advantage.

• Experience helping engineering teams split, reorganize, or evolve as they scale is an advantage.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation ranging from $236,000 to $289,000, with offers also including equity.

• Four weeks of paid vacation.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents welcoming a newborn, adopted, or fostered child, with support for return-to-work planning.

• Employer-sponsored long-term disability and life insurance.

• 401(k) plans.

• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for employees and one dependent.

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).

• Monthly lifestyle stipend supporting wellness, mental health, therapy, hobbies, and related activities.

• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.

• Commuter benefits for employees in the Bay Area and home-office stipends for remote employees.

• Continuous learning benefits and professional development support.

• Remote work opportunity across Canada, with the role also supporting US-based locations.

• Inclusive workplace committed to diversity, accessibility, and equal employment opportunities.

• Visa sponsorship is generally not available for new sponsorship requests; existing visa transfers may be considered at the employer’s discretion.