Engineering Manager; Product Engineering (Creative AI Tech) - Hybrid
Why Candidates Should Join:
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Impactful Leadership Opportunity: As the first Engineering Manager at Vizcom, you'll have the unique chance to shape the engineering culture and processes from the ground up, directly influencing the team's success and the company's trajectory.
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Focus on People Development: You'll be responsible for cultivating talent through personalized growth plans and regular feedback, ensuring that each engineer thrives and feels valued in their role.
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Dynamic Work Environment: Join a rapidly growing startup in the AI creative tools space, where your contributions will directly impact artists and designers, making their creative processes more efficient and innovative.
Why This Role Exist:
We have strong engineers but no dedicated people/process leader. You’ll introduce lightweight ways of working, cultivate talent, and make delivery predictable so founders can stay focused on product vision and fundraising.
Key Responsibilities:
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Team Rhythms - Create a simple operating cadence—planning, async status signals, demo / feedback loops, and post‑incident reviews—pruning or evolving rituals as we scale.
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Delivery Health - Track a small set of engineering‑health metrics (lead time, deploy frequency, incident count). Spot patterns early and remove blockers before they escalate.
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People Growth - Run weekly 1‑on‑1s, craft explicit growth plans, and deliver direct feedback. Raise internal coaches, not dependencies on you.
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Scope Clarity - Partner with Product & Design to translate high‑level ideas into well‑defined work, balance new features with tech‑debt pay‑down, and keep trade‑offs visible.
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Hiring & Onboarding - Close 3‑5 high‑bar engineers this year. New hires merge to production in week 1 and feel fully ramped by day 30.
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On-Call & Reliability - Shape a rotation that meets customer SLAs while protecting engineer well‑being; ensure every incident ends with a concise, actionable review.
IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE:
Seniority:
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1 - 5 years of experience leading 5-10 engineers in a high-growth product company
Work Experience:
- Recent experience at a high-growth product company (Series A-C or "first EM" environments)
- Experience with GPU‑heavy workloads, SOC 2 environments, or productionizing generative‑AI systems.
Education:
- CS degree from top school
Hard Skills:
- Hands‑on background in modern TypeScript / Node / React stacks; you can still dive into a PR when needed.
Soft Skills:
- You introduce just enough structure to unblock speed—no cargo‑cult frameworks.
- Comfort using delivery and reliability signals to guide conversations, not to police people.
- Able to translate engineering trade‑offs to Product, Design, execs, and customers.
- You care deeply about your team’s growth but hold a high bar for ownership and follow‑through.
ROLE DETAILS:
- Salary: $215k - $250k
- Equity: Competitive
- Visa sponsorship available: Case-by-case basis
- Hybrid Work Policy: In-person in SF (4 days/week) in the heart of SF. 10-15min walk from Cal Train
- Full-Time Position
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Tech Stack: TypeScript, Node, React, GraphQL, Postgres
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