Airtable

Engineering Manager, AI Tooling

San Francisco, CA · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago

Full-Stack DevelopmentMachine LearningData ScienceA/B TestingAccessibilityAgileCustomer SuccessLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.
The AI Tooling / Field Agents team is responsible for driving growth, adoption, and durable usage of Airtable-native AI through Field Agents and related product experiences.
This team sits within the Product Engineering organization.

As Engineering Manager for AI Tooling / Field Agents, you will lead a team of roughly 8-12 engineers responsible for accelerating Field Agent and AI Tooling adoption and usage.
You'll set technical and execution direction, develop and coach engineers, and partner deeply with PM, Design, Data Science, and GTM teams to turn Airtable's AI strategy into measurable product impact.
Lead, manage, and grow a team of engineers working on Field Agent Growth, AI tooling, and related adoption surfaces.
Own engineering execution for initiatives that increase Field Agent usage, first-party AI token consumption, and Agent WAU.
Drive a rigorous experimentation and rollout culture, including experiment architecture, ramp plans, exposure quality, launch readiness, metric instrumentation, and pre/post analysis.
Help the team balance growth-oriented product bets with defensive trust-building work such as credit transparency, spend visibility, warnings, and guardrails.
Work with Data Science and Product to understand usage patterns, token consumption, adoption funnels, and customer segments where Field Agents can create the most value.
Build a strong team operating model: clear DRIs, crisp PDC/status updates, effective sprint planning, high-quality execution reviews, and healthy collaboration across engineering, product, and design.
Develop engineers through feedback, coaching, career development, technical mentorship, and creating opportunities for ownership.

You may be a fit if you have:
Comfort using metrics, experimentation, and customer feedback to guide roadmap and execution decisions.
A track record of leading teams through ambiguity, changing priorities, and high-visibility goals.
Strong execution instincts: you know when to run a lightweight experiment, when to invest in platform quality, and when to cut scope to learn faster.

Experience with experimentation platforms, growth loops, activation/adoption funnels, or usage-based business models.
Experience with billing, credits, metering, quota systems, or customer-facing usage transparency.
Accessibility experience or a strong appreciation for inclusive product quality.
Airtable is an equal opportunity employer.
We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.
Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
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Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits, restricted stock units, and may include incentive compensation.
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To learn more about our comprehensive benefit offerings, please check out Life at Airtable.

while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are looking to hire candidates at this level who are based in San Francisco and open to coming into the office ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration.
Partner with Product and Design to identify high-leverage growth opportunities, quickly validate hypotheses, and ship product experiences that help customers discover and successfully use Field Agents.
Collaborate with Services, Sales, and Customer Success to identify real customer workflows and unblock enterprise adoption, especially where customers have conceptual, permissions, billing, performance, or AI-readiness barriers.
We're looking for an engineering leader who combines strong people management, product judgment, technical depth, and comfort operating in ambiguous, high-visibility areas.

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