Senior Engineering Manager (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Engineering Manager (AI): Owning the AI agent platform and informing the strategic vision for how AI capabilities are adopted across the product with an accent on near-term product impact with long-term investment. Focus on translating vision into capabilities that move business metrics and driving thought leadership on how every pillar adopts and integrates AI capabilities into their products.

Location: Hybrid (in-office 3 days per week) - Austin, TX. Remote - Raleigh, NC, Nashville, TN, Toronto, Canada

Salary: $186,102 - $292,805 a year. For candidates in Toronto, Canada the range is $186,102 - $248,533.

Company

hirify.global is transforming the way companies plan, manage, and optimize sales performance.

What you will do

• Lead, inspire, and grow a distributed engineering team, fostering a culture of high trust and intellectual curiosity.
• Develop engineering talent through effective coaching, mentorship, and performance management, with a focus on growing senior and staff-level engineers.
• Own the end-to-end delivery and operational excellence of the AI platform, ensuring AI systems are reliable, safe, and performant in production.
• Partner with Product, Design, and other cross-functional leaders to set a clear vision, prioritize roadmaps, and align a long-term strategy that optimizes for the entire organization.
• Provide technical leadership and direction by setting architectural guardrails and guiding major technical decisions without being a direct code contributor.

Requirements

• Extensive software development experience as an individual contributor, and a proven track record as an Engineering Manager leading distributed software engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience building and shipping AI-powered products in production — LLM orchestration, agent frameworks, or applied ML systems.
• Broad understanding of the state of the art in AI, LLMs, and applied LLM systems.
• A strategic thinker, comfortable setting technical vision over a 6-12 month horizon and managing a complex portfolio of projects.
• A strong product sense and a proven track record of delivering high-quality results across the full product lifecycle.
• Exceptional interpersonal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners in a remote-first environment.

Nice to have

• Experience leading AI platform or internal developer tools teams that serve other engineering teams as customers.
• Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks, MCP integrations, or agent SDK design.
• Background in building AI evaluation and observability infrastructure.
• Experience in B2B SaaS, particularly in enterprise software with complex domain logic.
• Familiarity with Python/Django tech stack.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare: 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision for all FTEs.
• Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation days plus quarterly mental health days.
• Annual Stipends: Dedicated funds for your professional development and caretaking needs.
• Work Anniversary Bonuses: Annual bonuses to celebrate your milestones and contributions to the hirify.global team.
• Retirement Savings (US-Only): A 401(k) plan to help you invest in and secure your future.
• The latest Apple hardware to empower you to do your best work.