Software Development Manager (AI/ML)

Location: Westbrook, Maine, United States; hybrid with onsite attendance 2 days per week, or 8 days per month

Salary: $150,000 per year, with flexibility based on experience

Company

hirify.global develops products and services supporting animal health, safe drinking water, and livestock and poultry health, serving customers in more than 175 countries.

What you will do

• Manage assigned RADIXX engineering teams, including developers and dotted-line QA and architecture functions.
• Plan staffing, resources, work assignments, delivery schedules, and team priorities for the WebPACS and VMS products.
• Manage performance, coaching, professional development, employment actions, and escalated or critical issues.
• Triage feature requests, high-priority defects, technical debt, and cross-team dependencies.
• Drive product quality, delivery velocity, customer experience, operational efficiency, automation, and continuous improvement using metrics and system tools.
• Coordinate with Product, Security, Infrastructure, engineering teams, vendors, contractors, and senior management; prepare delivery and product health reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8+ years of people management experience in a software engineering environment, with in-depth knowledge of engineering operations.
• Experience managing larger or complex multidisciplinary teams across development, QA, and architecture, including dotted-line or matrix relationships.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and direct work across concurrent workstreams and manage escalated and critical issues.
• Knowledge of software engineering operations, development practices, delivery pipelines, and production support environments.
• Working knowledge of Java, C#, React, and Angular sufficient to discuss design decisions, technical trade-offs, and delivery risks with developers and technical leads; hands-on development is not required.
• Awareness of AI/ML trends and tooling, including AI-assisted development, engineering automation, and responsible adoption.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, reasoning, problem-solving, analytical, project management, and business relationship-building skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and standard engineering collaboration tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with onsite attendance 2 days per week.
• Annual cash bonus opportunity and merit increase.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits starting on Day One.
• 5% matching 401(k), employee stock program, financial support, pet insurance, mental health resources, paid volunteer days, and foundation donation matching.
• Collaborative culture focused on learning, discovery, meaningful work, and continuous improvement.