Head of Product Engineering

Plaud • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Plaud is seeking a Head of Product Engineering to lead the engineering teams behind its core product: apps that connect to Plaud devices and record conversations, AI transcription and summaries, shared workspaces and collaboration, and administration tools for business customers. The role owns how quickly and effectively teams ship a unified product across hardware, mobile, web, and desktop. Teams are distributed across the US and Asia, and build for customers ranging from free users to large enterprises.

The Head of Product Engineering will set engineering strategy, grow and lead the engineering leads across product teams, and establish operating practices that support delivery across time zones. The role partners with Product, Design, Platform, and Infrastructure, drives AI-native engineering practices, and ensures clear ownership and accountability for services, handoffs, and on-call rotations.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading managers of multi-team product engineering organizations of 40+ engineers.
• Proven track record shipping consumer or prosumer products across mobile, web, and desktop.
• Demonstrated success leading distributed teams across the US and Asia, with a clear operating model for teams spanning time zones.
• Strong technical depth, including the ability to review architectures, challenge estimates, and hands-on unblock complex projects.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered features in production, including prompts, retrieval, evaluations, and cost and quality tradeoffs.
• Track record of increasing delivery velocity while maintaining quality and team health, supported by metrics.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills with Product, Design, executives, and engineers.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with hardware-connected or AI-heavy products is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive engineering strategy for Plaud’s core product, including device connection and recording, AI transcription and summaries, shared workspaces and collaboration, business administration tools, and future growth.
• Lead, mentor, and grow engineering leads across product teams in the US and Asia through hiring, coaching, and high standards for craft and delivery.
• Own engineering velocity and quality across product teams, shortening the path from idea to shipped feature across mobile, web, desktop, and device handoffs.
• Partner with Product, Design, Platform, and Infrastructure to create a unified roadmap and dated commitments.
• Establish end-to-end ownership so each service, handoff, and on-call rotation has an owning team, and teams operate what they build.
• Build an operating model for teams spanning time zones, including written specifications and fixed daily overlap, and move each team toward a single time zone over time.
• Drive AI-native engineering across teams, including evaluations in CI/CD, AI-assisted development, and rapid experiments on AI features.
• Serve as the Platform team’s main internal customer by using shared services and providing regular feedback on Platform’s delivery.
• Resolve technical disputes between teams quickly and in writing.

Benefits

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
• Access to AI tools including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems.
• Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and Plaud devices for new hires.
• Annual company offsites and team events.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed