People Culture Talent

Founding Engineering Manager

San Francisco, CA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 40 days ago

Cloud PlatformsCustomer SupportLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

Cross-Functional Collaboration - Connect engineering to product and customer needs.
Customer Impact - Stay close to customer facing engineers.
Understand the real world problems the platform is solving and make sure solutions reflect that.

Engineering Leadership - Mentor and develop a high retention team of engineers. Build the conditions where strong people do their best work and stay.
Team Scaling - Partner with founders on hiring, onboarding, and career development as the engineering org grows beyond its founding core.
Technical Execution - Own planning and delivery across multiple initiatives. Hold the bar on quality and system design without slowing the team down.
Process & Ops - Build operating rhythms that actually help - lightweight and practical for a team that doesn't need heavy process to produce.
Technical Strategy - Contribute to architectural decisions and long-term platform investments that support scale without accumulating debt.
This team writes their own feature docs, owns customer support rotations, and holds craft as a non-negotiable value.

Experience in customer-facing engineering organizations
Early engineering leadership at a startup (first or second management hire
The founding team brings experience from Google, Meta, and AWS.
The team is small, retention rates are exceptional, and the technical standards are high.
This is an excellent opportunity for professionals who are excited about meaningful ownership and the chance to help shape the future of collaboration between businesses and AI.
Experience with AI-native products, developer tools, infrastructure platforms, or agent-based systems is a strong plus

Note: We are recruiting on behalf of our valued client.
This opportunity is for a position with their organization, not with People Culture Talent.
We're excited to help connect talented professionals with this exceptional team!
This venture backed AI infrastructure company is developing the connectivity layer that enables AI platforms and B2B software to take meaningful action within the systems businesses rely on.
We're looking for a Founding Engineering Manager to join a Series A AI infrastructure company at a pivotal moment.

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