Senior Manager, Software Engineering (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Manager, Software Engineering (AI): Build and lead a team to deliver agentic AI experiences focused on adaptive care journeys for patients and providers. Focus on shaping the technical strategy, defining the roadmap, and driving execution to transform mental healthcare with responsible AI.

Location: Hybrid role based in San Francisco. Candidates are expected to be in office 2-3 days a week.

Salary: $207,000 - $233,000

Company

hirify.global is on a mission to revolutionize mental healthcare by removing every barrier that prevents people from getting the help they need, when they need it.

What you will do

• Build and lead a zero-to-one team of full-stack and Applied AI engineers to ship member- and provider-facing agentic experiences.
• Collaborate with product, design, clinical experts and AI platform teams to define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for Agentic Care.
• Recruit, onboard, and mentor engineers; foster a mission-driven culture centered on velocity, ownership, and high safety/quality bars for AI features.
• Ensure operational excellence: SLOs/SLIs, on-call and incident management, observability, tech debt management, and developer experience.
• Drive execution across teams and organizations, aligning initiatives with broader clinical and strategic priorities.

Requirements

• Passion for mental health and building products that materially improve clinical outcomes and access to care.
• Experience with the AI product lifecycle: context engineering, function/tool calling, RAG pipelines, safety/guardrails, evals.
• 2+ years of experience managing and leading a high-output engineering team building user-facing products.
• 6+ years of experience building and scaling systems as an individual contributor.
• Organizational leadership experience, including collaborating with executive leadership.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Nice to have

• Track record building and managing teams that shipped 0→1 AI-powered products (LLM apps, agents, copilots) in production.
• Experience in high-growth startup environments.
• Healthcare/clinical tech experience, building user-facing products that focus on evidence-based solutions.
• Adept at prioritizing business objectives, creating new areas of investment, anticipating risks, and providing deep technical expertise.
• Experience leading distributed teams across time zones.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day.
• Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2%.
• Generous paid time off, 10 sick days, 12 paid holidays throughout the year, and a 1 month sabbatical leave granted at your 4 year anniversary
• Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement a year.