Senior Engineering Manager, DC Buying

Afresh•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Afresh is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead engineering for its AI-powered DC Buying product, which helps grocery distribution center buyers decide what to order, how much to order, and when. The product is live with enterprise customers and scaling quickly. The manager owns engineering end to end and partners with product, design, data engineering, and applied science on a shared roadmap, while working directly with customers to ensure the product supports buyers’ daily work. The role combines engineering leadership, roadmap ownership, technical direction, and dependable execution. The manager hires and develops a senior team of product engineers, sets technical standards, and builds close working relationships with engineering peers across platform, data, and AI. They balance customer requests, technical investment, and business goals; turn broad objectives into scoped plans and clear commitments; and maintain reliability, healthy on-call practices, and data quality. The role also fosters a culture in which engineers and scientists own problems and collaborate early with customers, product, and design. Afresh is an AI platform company focused on grocery and reducing food waste. Its products support grocers across the enterprise, and the company says its platform prevented more than 200 million pounds of food waste in the prior year. The position is not eligible for company sponsorship. The stated U.S. salary band is $203,745–$275,655, plus equity and benefits. Many employees work remotely, provided they reside in one of the listed states.

Requirements

At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years managing engineering teams.
Experience developing, scaling, and supporting mission-critical products in production.
Strong technical range and experience leading across multiple functional domains, including front end, back end, data pipelines, and applied science.
Sufficient technical depth to engage across domains and willingness to learn.
Experience hiring, developing, and managing team performance, and building a culture where engineers own problems rather than tickets.
Clear, direct communication with stakeholders, executives, and customers.
Comfort with ambiguity and growth-stage pressure, including reprioritizing quickly when customer or business needs shift without destabilizing the team.
Uses AI-native development practices day to day and wants to keep the team at the leading edge of them.

Nice To Haves

Experience in supply chain, retail, or grocery, especially demand forecasting, replenishment, or inventory optimization.
Experience shipping forecasting, optimization, or recommendation products used by operators in their daily work.
Experience taking a product from early design partners to production with enterprise customers.
Familiarity with Python, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Databricks, and Azure.

Responsibilities

Lead, hire, develop, and retain a senior team of product engineers; set expectations, support career growth, and address performance issues promptly.
Set technical direction by reviewing architecture, limiting unnecessary complexity, and making deliberate decisions about technical debt.
Build relationships with engineering leaders across platform, data, and AI so the DC Buying team can use shared tooling effectively.
Own the DC Buying roadmap with product, design, and science leads, balancing customer needs, technical investment, and business goals.
Develop a deep understanding of users, business priorities, key metrics, and ways to improve the customer experience.
Make clear commitments to internal stakeholders and customers, deliver against them, and communicate early when plans may slip.
Translate broad goals into scoped plans with sequencing, cost, and timelines; keep leadership and partner teams informed and drive decisions to clarity.
Own product reliability, on-call health, and data quality.
Build a culture in which engineers and scientists own problems rather than tickets and are involved early with customers, product, and design.
Use creative problem solving to build innovative products that delight DC buyers and deliver customer impact.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families, with the majority of premiums covered by Afresh.
Mental health support and counseling services.
Competitive base salary and meaningful equity for U.S. employees.
401(k) program with a generous company match.
Home office stipend.
Coworking Wallets for flexible workspace access.
Annual professional development budget.
Monthly wellness/lifestyle and telecommunications stipends.
Flexible paid time off.

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