Staff Mobile Engineering Manager (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Mobile Engineering Manager (AI): Leading the team responsible for building and growing the Gemini app on iOS, redefining how billions of users interact with AI. Focus on architectural excellence, UI/UX innovation, and strategic cross-functional alignment.

Location: Must be based in Mountain View, California, US

Salary: $197,000 - $291,000 + bonus + equity + benefits

Company

hirify.global is a team of scientists, engineers, and machine learning experts working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery.

What you will do

• Act as the "Guardian" of the iOS app, setting the long-term technical roadmap and balancing rapid feature delivery with relentless modernization and technical debt reduction.
• Lead the shift toward modular UI componentization and robust foundations to drive developer velocity, code reuse, and platform consistency across the Gemini ecosystem.
• Drive the implementation of novel, experimental UI patterns and high-performance interactions that define the next generation of AI-human engagement on mobile.
• Direct the day-to-day execution of a high-tempo engineering team, unblocking complex technical challenges and ensuring the timely launch of performant, high-quality features.
• Serve as the primary technical partner for Product, UX, and Backend teams, influencing server-side infrastructure and translating ambiguous product goals into actionable technical strategies.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a technical lead and/or engineering manager with a track record of supporting and leading high-performing mobile engineering teams.
• Extensive professional experience and expert-level proficiency in native iOS mobile development, with a history of shipping complex, user-facing applications at scale.
• Experience leading the delivery of large-scale technical projects, defining team roadmaps, and making critical architectural decisions in collaboration with product and UX partners.
• A passion for developing engineers, with direct experience in hiring, mentoring, and managing performance and career growth.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, capable of representing the team and driving alignment with senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with ML systems and LLM concepts is a plus but not required.

Culture & Benefits

• Committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or related condition.
• Value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.

Hiring process

• Offer of employment will be conditional on the results of a background check, performed by a third party.