Engineering Manager (AI)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (AI): Leading the team responsible for hirify.global’s authoritative user data model and its online APIs, and entity event interfaces with an accent on consistent product experiences, compliance and data governance. Focus on enabling AI-powered experiences by building high-quality, trusted, well-governed user data foundations that are safe and easy to use across AI products.

Location: US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an hirify.global office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where hirify.global, Inc. has a registered entity.

Salary: $204,000 — $255,000 USD

Company

hirify.global was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.

What you will do

• Define the multi‑year technical strategy for authoritative user data (individual + business) across online, offline, and events.
• Drive adoption of consistent source‑of‑truth interfaces so critical user data is read/written through governed systems.
• Establish and scale user data governance practices (cataloging, auditing, compliance-by-design, privacy-first defaults).
• Enable AI-powered experiences by building high-quality, trusted, well-governed user data foundations that are safe and easy to use across AI products.
• Grow a high‑performing team that collaborates effectively across product and infrastructure organizations.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry experience with 5+ years in engineering management (or equivalent leadership), including leading teams delivering foundational platforms or shared services.
• Strong background in distributed, large-scale backend and data systems: domain modeling, service interfaces (APIs), event-driven architectures, and offline data pipelines.
• Demonstrated success driving cross‑org adoption/migrations with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Experience building systems with scale, performance, and data privacy, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to define crisp technical vision, align teams, and influence without authority.
• Track record of inclusive leadership, talent development, and building high‑ownership teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with identity/user/account modeling at scale (individual + business entities, relationships, permissions, authentication and authorization concepts).
• Familiarity with data governance practices (cataloging, lineage, auditing, policy enforcement) and partnership with data platform and infrastructure teams.
• Experience partnering closely with Trust, Risk, Compliance, or Tax organizations, or understanding about compliance, data auditing, and data governance requirements in these domains.
• Experience evolving large systems through incremental migration strategies while maintaining product velocity.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible.
• Diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions.
• All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
• hirify.global strives to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process.