Head of Product Engineering (AI)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, CA, with another location in Palo Alto, CA; United States

Company

hirify.global is a San Francisco-based product company building AI interfaces and intelligence infrastructure for professionals, including connected devices, transcription, summaries, collaboration, and business administration tools.

What you will do

• Define and drive engineering strategy for device connection and recording, AI transcription and summaries, shared workspaces, collaboration, admin tools, and future growth.
• Lead, mentor, hire, and grow engineering leads across product teams in the US and Asia.
• Own engineering velocity and quality across mobile, web, desktop, and device handoff experiences.
• Partner with Product, Design, Platform, and Infrastructure to create a single roadmap with dated commitments.
• Establish end-to-end service ownership, on-call accountability, written specifications, and operating models for teams spanning time zones.
• Drive AI-native engineering, including CI/CD evaluations, AI-assisted development, production experiments, and resolution of technical disputes.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading managers in multi-team product engineering organizations of 40+ engineers.
• Experience shipping consumer or prosumer products across mobile, web, and desktop; hardware-connected or AI-heavy products are preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading distributed teams across the US and Asia with a clear time-zone operating model.
• Strong technical depth with the ability to review architectures, challenge estimates, and unblock complex projects hands-on.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered features in production, including prompts, retrieval, evaluations, and cost-versus-quality tradeoffs.
• Evidence of increasing delivery velocity while maintaining quality and team health, supported by metrics.
• Excellent collaboration and communication with Product, Design, executives, and engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with hardware-connected products.
• Experience with AI-heavy products.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan providing a stake in hirify.global's long-term success.
• Fast-moving, product-driven environment focused on AI productivity and direct product impact.
• Access to AI productivity tools including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems.
• Choice of high-spec laptops, workstation setups, and hirify.global devices.
• Annual company offsites, team events, and a culture emphasizing craftsmanship, ownership, velocity, continuous learning, and career development.