AI use among architectural and engineering managers is little observed so far. Measured exposure for architectural and engineering managers: 3% (little observed).

Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.

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About the job

A document-AI company that has grown quickly with enterprise and AI-native customers is looking for a leader to run the small team that builds applications on top of its models. The company is widening from document parsing into a broader agentic document platform, and this person will set direction for that move. It is a player-coach seat on site; the leader reports into the engineering VP, with the founders as day-to-day collaborators.

Your focus

Begin by writing and releasing production code alongside the engineers, then assume full ownership of the group while staying hands-on

Decide what to build and how, alongside founders, product colleagues and enterprise customers, through an AI-first lens, on capabilities such as automated form completion, translation, document editing and classification

Insist on excellence in interfaces that are quick, dependable, precise and intuitive for complex document workflows

Own product engineering hiring, from sourcing through closing

Work with the platform and machine-learning groups on releasing new models and ways to deploy them, and decide how AI should be used in the team’s own build process

What you bring

Three or more years managing engineers, or a first-time manager with a year or two at an AI-native company

Hands-on record of shipping LLM-powered features to production, not only managing the people who did

Product thinking: you reason well about evals and know what makes business software worth paying for

Experience building products at a B2B or enterprise AI company; time spent on platforms for frontier AI labs is valued

Not a pure people manager removed from the code for years

On-site in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visa transfers considered.