Elicit

Engineering Manager

Oakland, CA (or remote within US timezones)

Sponsorship not specified$250k-$300kDetected 7 days ago

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About the role

Elicit is growing. We currently have 20 engineers and only two people managers. This role is crucially important to ensure that our world-class engineers are given the opportunity to do the best work of their career here.
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to help us scale our team without sacrificing the speed, technical excellence, and ownership that epitomize how we build products.

However, your primary impact will be through building and motivating a high-performing team rather than individual contributions in code.
You, your team, and your product counterpart will own outcomes, not just a roadmap.
Build and grow a high-performing engineering team
Directly manage a team of up to 8 software engineers.
Build a culture of high standards, rapid iteration, and thoughtful execution.
Help identify, hire, onboard, and develop exceptional engineers.

7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
3+ years directly managing software engineers.
Experience leading engineering teams at high-bar startups.
Experience shipping complex, user-facing products with measurable business impact.
A track record of helping engineers grow through coaching, mentorship, and clear feedback.
It's important you are sufficiently technically-engaged to steward wise architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and help unblock difficult technical problems.
We're looking for someone who combines outstanding people leadership with excellent technical judgment.
Strong computer science fundamentals and the technical depth to earn the trust of senior engineers.
Strong communication skills and an ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and design.
Profound curiosity about language models, AI, and building products that improve reasoning and decision-making.
Candidates are likely not a fit if their most recent experience is primarily organizational leadership at scale (for example, Head of Engineering, VP Engineering, or Senior Director at large organizations), or if they've been removed from hands-on engineering management for several years.
Founders, CTOs, or engineering leaders from seed or Series A startups who remained close to the code are excellent fits.

For all roles at Elicit, we use a data-backed compensation framework to keep salaries market-competitive, equitable, and simple to understand. For this role, we target starting ranges of:

Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, generous coverage for the rest of your family (FSA/HSA, too)
Flexible vacation policy, with a minimum recommendation of 20 days / year and plenty of company holidays
Every Elician receives a $200 monthly wellbeing stipend to spend on whatever supports your health and wellbeing.
A new Mac + $1,000 budget to set up your workstation or home office in your first year, then $500 every year thereafter
$250k -300k + equity
We offer above-market equity for all roles at Elicit, as well as employee-friendly equity terms.

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Ensure that your team develops the skills to grow into this new way of working rather than being diminished by it.
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to help us scale our team without sacrificing the speed, technical excellence, and ownership that epitomize how we build products.
In addition to working on important problems as part of a productive and positive team, we also offer great benefits (with some variation based on location):

This listing is sourced directly from Elicit's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.