Engineering Manager, Product
About The Position
Ambience is hiring a Technical Lead Manager of Product Engineering to lead and scale our core engineering teams as we build the category-defining AI platform for healthcare. You ’ll partner closely with product, design, and clinical teams to translate ambitious ideas into production-ready systems that are scalable, maintainable, and loved by end users. This role is responsible for growing the team from 5 to 10+ engineers, building high-functioning pods around product domains, and delivering features that have a direct impact on clinician efficiency and patient outcomes. You ’ll shape org design, culture, and process at a critical moment in Ambience ’s growth, reporting directly to the Head of Engineering.
Requirements
- Experienced hiring manager; has personally hired 7+ engineers, and built teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Hands-on Leader: You bring 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineers
- Technically Credible: You’ve built and scaled distributed systems, shipped backend and full-stack features in SaaS environments, and can go deep on technical decisions when needed.
- Product-Oriented: You know how to collaborate with PM and Design, think in terms of user outcomes, and ensure your team is always building the right thing.
- Execution-Focused: You take pride in delivering on ambitious goals. You know how to align a team, debug process issues, and accelerate throughput.
- Culture Shaper: You build inclusive teams with strong feedback and trust cultures. You lead with empathy and set a high bar for engineering maturity and ownership.
- Mission-Aligned: You’re excited by our vision to improve healthcare through AI and motivated by the opportunity to build a platform that makes a real-world impact.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in enterprise SaaS or healthtech
- Prior experience at high-growth Series B–D startups
- A personal network of Bay Area engineers or managers
- History of technical thought leadership (talks, blogs, open-source)
Responsibilities
- Build the Team: Help grow and shape a high-performing engineering group by hiring, onboarding, and developing strong ICs. Partner closely with recruiting and tap into your own network to attract and close exceptional talent.
- Design for Speed and Autonomy: Architect the engineering team for high ownership and product velocity. Set clear team charters, rituals, and scopes of responsibility.
- Drive Product Impact: Ship major customer-facing initiatives that expand Ambience’s enterprise footprint, while raising the bar on quality and performance.
- Coach and Grow Managers: Mentor EMs or TLs, create pathways for career growth, and promote a culture of feedback, execution, and high agency.
- Set Engineering Standards: Lead on architecture, code quality, release reliability, and data integrity. Establish best practices and ensure consistency across pods.
- Partner Cross-functionally: Collaborate deeply with PM, Design, and Clinical SMEs to ensure strong planning, discovery, and delivery practices across the product lifecycle.
- Lead Through Ambiguity: Translate high-level business goals into actionable plans, unblocking teams and delivering results in fast-moving and uncertain environments.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- 401(k) with a company match of up to 3% of base salary
- A remote-friendly culture (with a San Francisco HQ) and full equipment provisioning to ensure you can work effectively from wherever you’re based.
- Parental leave to support your family needs
- Annual company-wide off-sites, team off-sites and regular team lunches and all-hands gatherings, with travel, lodging and meals covered
- Flexible time off with no annual cap, company-wide holidays and an annual holiday shutdown from December 24–January 1 designed to support real rest and long-term sustainability.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
