Technical Lead / Engineering Manager - Product Engineering (San Francisco)

Tech Lead / Engineering Manager - Product Engineering (San Francisco)***On-site in San Francisco, If not, must willing to relocate. Open to visa transfers.This is for a cutting-edge AI startup with $70M+ in funding and a differentiated approach to building and owning proprietary data assets. We're looking for a hands-on product engineering leader with 5–10 years of full-stack experience who is comfortable writing code regularly. You should have shipped zero-to-one, user-facing products and built scalable, data-intensive systems, ideally at a high-growth startup. This is 5 days/week on-site in San Francisco, so you must be local or willing to relocate. 2+ years of engineering management or founder/early-stage startup experience is highly desired.Comp: $250K–$300K base + competitive equityStack: Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL🛠️ You will:Lead, hire, and grow a high-performing product engineering team.Work closely with senior technical leadership on architecture and product execution.Build new customer-facing products from the ground up.Design and scale systems handling large volumes of complex data.Stay hands-on with code while setting the technical direction for the team.🧩 100% Required:5–10 years of product-focused full-stack engineering experience.Technical leadership experience within a high-growth startup or scale-up.Strong full-stack and backend fundamentals with modern web technologies.Proven experience taking user-facing products from 0→1.Experience building high-scale, data-intensive systems or pipelines.Comfortable leading engineers while remaining highly hands-on technically.🪶 Other Skills:2+ years of Engineering Management experience.Former founder or early employee at a successful startup.Experience growing engineering teams in fast-moving environments.Python and AI/ML experience.🧬 How The Company WorksHyper-growth – a rapidly scaling team with strong early commercial traction.High-caliber customers – technology is used by some of the world's leading technology and AI organizations.Well-fundedFast-moving – engineers own projects end-to-end and ship frequently.Technically ambitious – solving difficult product and data problems at significant scale.High ownership – work closely with technical leadership and help shape the engineering organization.