Ironcladhq

Ironcladhq

Technical Lead Manager, AI

San Francisco · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$245k-$295kDetected 6 days ago
TypeScriptReactNode.jsDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentGCPDockerKubernetesLLMsAI OrchestrationA/B TestingContract ManagementLeadershipCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • Jurist is Ironclad's AI-native contract review experience, built for the lawyers and business teams who negotiate agreements every day.
  • It brings together first-pass redlining, reasoning-backed suggested changes, deviation summaries, obligation detection, and reusable playbook libraries into a single, trusted workspace for contract review and negotiation.
  • Jurist is one of Ironclad's highest-priority product surfaces, sitting at the intersection of applied AI, legal workflows, and end-user trust.

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture and execution for Jurist's core experiences: first-pass redlining, reasoning-backed suggestions, deviation summaries, obligation detection, and playbook-driven review workflows.
  • Own the end-to-end quality bar for Jurist, including evals, benchmarking, error analysis, regression prevention, and product instrumentation that improves accuracy and user trust over time.
  • Drive backend and platform decisions that support document understanding, AI orchestration, review state management, permissions, and enterprise-scale performance.
  • Shape the Jurist UI and interaction model in close partnership with Product and Design, ensuring AI outputs are explainable, actionable, and trustworthy for legal and business users.
  • Partner closely with Product, Design, Legal domain experts, Services, and go-to-market teams to translate customer pain points into scalable product capabilities.
  • Manage and grow a team of strong engineers across frontend and backend, balancing speed, technical rigor, and product judgment.
  • Establish strong engineering practices across design reviews, technical planning, experimentation, rollout safety, and operational excellence.
  • the opportunity to help build the company you want to work at
  • Family forming support through Maven for you and your partner
  • And most importantly: the opportunity to help build the company you want to work at

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience architecting, building, and operating complex software systems in production.
  • 2+ years of technical leadership or engineering management experience, including mentoring and growing high-performing teams.
  • A strong track record of shipping ambiguous, zero-to-one or one-to-scale products where product and technical direction evolved quickly.
  • you know when to go deep technically and when to simplify.
  • Deep backend and distributed systems experience, especially in systems that need to be reliable, observable, secure, and scalable.
  • Comfort working across application, platform, and infrastructure layers.
  • Familiarity with modern web and cloud stacks.
  • Our teams commonly work in TypeScript, React, Node.js, Docker/Kubernetes, and Google Cloud, though direct experience in our exact stack is not required.
  • You can translate domain complexity into intuitive product behavior and clear engineering priorities.
  • You enjoy close collaboration with product managers, designers, researchers, and customer-facing teams to iterate quickly on new capabilities.

Compensation

  • The base salary range represents the minimum and maximum of the salary range for this position based at our San Francisco headquarters.
  • The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate.
  • $245,000 - $295,000
  • Our base salary is just one component of Ironclad's competitive total rewards package, which also includes equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure), competitive health and wellness benefits, and a commitment to career growth and development.

Benefits

  • 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options available
  • Market-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave
  • Paid time off - take the time you need, when you need it
  • Mental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits (US Employees)
  • Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and (if applicable) cell phone use

Company info

  • The team owns both the user-facing product and the backend systems that power it, including document understanding, AI orchestration, clause detection, review state management, and enterprise-scale performance.
  • We're hiring a Technical Lead Manager to lead the engineering team behind Jurist and define the next generation of AI-assisted contract review.
  • This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who wants to build product at the intersection of legal workflows, applied AI, and end-user experience.
  • Roughly 80% building: shaping technical direction, designing systems, reviewing architecture, driving quality, and staying hands-on where it matters most.
  • Roughly 20% leading: coaching engineers, managing performance, hiring thoughtfully, and building a healthy, high-ownership team culture.
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