Senior Engineering Manager, AI

Postscript is a company that provides ecommerce brands with tools for SMS marketing. As a Senior Engineering Manager for the Messaging AI team, you will lead a team of product engineers to enhance automated SMS marketing experiences and drive conversion for top Ecommerce brands.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers that are enabling the steel threads of our first AI products
• Collaborate with AI engineering teammates, product managers, business stakeholders, designers, and others to plan and execute work
• Carry out performance management duties for your direct reports via just in time feedback, 1:1s, annual reviews, and continuous improvement opportunities
• Consistently provide ongoing technical mentorship and general professional development for your direct reports and other engineers at Postscript
• Establish and continually improve development and team processes that yield maximum efficiency in day-to-day engineering operations
• Partner with and grow Staff Engineers and technical experts in the organization to develop technical roadmaps and complete technical initiatives to enable engineering efficiency, handle the growth of our platform’s scale, and improve velocity
• Recruit and hire engineers on your team and on other teams, raise and advocate new positions on your team, and directly participate in the screening and evaluation of candidates
• Lead and participate in culture initiatives that will help us create the best engineering organization in the world

Requirements:

• A proven career directly managing engineers and developing top performers into principal engineers (ideally 4+ years of leadership experience)
• Experience mentoring staff engineers and highly technical contributors
• Experience working with AI technologies (predictive and generative)
• Demonstrated excellence in recruiting and onboarding engineers
• Clear passion for people, management, and enabling people to do their best work
• Early stage/high growth SaaS experience
• Lead teams that have maintained critical infrastructure that internal and external developers build on
• Introduced and maintained systems with a high level of observability (alerting, logging, monitoring)
• Lead teams that support deeply embedded integrations with external ecommerce and our own internal platform systems
• Demonstrated passion for delivering great products (martech SaaS or ecommerce experience preferred)