Technical Lead Manager, AI
$245,000–$295,000 year
HybridNew York City, New York, United States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Set technical vision and roadmap for Jurist, spanning the full stack from user-facing review UI to backend systems powering accurate AI outputs. Lead architecture for core experiences including first-pass redlining, reasoning-backed suggestions, obligation detection, and playbook-driven workflows. Own the end-to-end quality bar through evals, benchmarking, error analysis, and product instrumentation. Drive backend decisions for document understanding, AI orchestration, and enterprise-scale performance while shaping the UI in partnership with Product and Design. Manage a team of engineers across frontend and backend, balancing speed with technical rigor. Roughly 80% building and 20% leading, with office attendance required twice weekly.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience architecting, building, and operating complex software systems in production
- 2+ years of technical leadership or engineering management experience, including mentoring and growing high-performing teams
- A strong track record of shipping ambiguous, zero-to-one or one-to-scale products where product and technical direction evolved quickly
- High agency and strong product instincts
- Experience building and owning user-facing products end-to-end, including both the UI layer and the backend systems that support it
- Deep backend and distributed systems experience, especially in systems that need to be reliable, observable, secure, and scalable
- Hands-on fluency with modern applied AI systems, including LLM orchestration, retrieval patterns, prompt and workflow design, model evaluation, and production quality controls
- Experience building user-facing AI products where accuracy, explainability, and trust materially affect adoption
- Comfort working across application, platform, and infrastructure layers
- Familiarity with modern web and cloud stacks
- Office attendance is required at least twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for collaboration and connection
Desired Qualifications
- Direct experience in TypeScript, React, Node.js, Docker/Kubernetes, and Google Cloud
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