Tech Lead Manager, Product Growth

Glean•Mountain View, CA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Glean is hiring a product-minded, hands-on, technically strong Tech Lead Manager to establish and lead its Product Growth engineering function. The role shapes a new growth engineering capability as Glean expands the reach and impact of its Work AI platform. It sits at the intersection of product engineering, data, experimentation, and applied AI, helping more people discover, adopt, and continuously engage with Glean. The Product Growth team owns end-to-end experiences that help users discover Glean, reach value quickly, build lasting habits, and expand product use. These experiences span invitation and first sign-in, activation, onboarding, engagement, re-entry, and adoption across teams and functions. Relevant touch points include login and setup, the home page, navigation, desktop and browser experiences, in-product education, lifecycle communications, and product-led expansion. The Tech Lead Manager will guide architecture and execution, lead a full-stack engineering team, and partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, Applied AI, and other engineering teams. The role combines technical leadership and hands-on contribution with end-to-end ownership of growth initiatives, using customer insights, product data, and experimentation to deliver measurable improvements. As the team grows, the manager will hire, coach, and develop engineers and foster ownership, learning, and high-quality execution. The position is hybrid, with four days a week in Glean’s Mountain View office. The standard base salary range is $250,000–$300,000 annually. Compensation may also include variable compensation, equity, and benefits. Benefits include medical, vision, and dental coverage, generous time off, a 401(k) plan, a home office improvement stipend, annual education and wellness stipends, company events, and daily healthy lunches.

Requirements

At least 8 years of software engineering experience building production distributed systems or cloud-native applications.
At least 1 year of engineering management experience with a full-stack team.
BS/BA in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience building and shipping user-facing products; B2B SaaS, AI, productivity, collaboration, or other high-engagement software experience is preferred.
Strong execution track record and ability to lead engineers through ambiguity, make sound technical decisions, and deliver meaningful outcomes.
Experience partnering with Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists to define problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver measurable product improvements.
Analytical skills and comfort using data to understand user behavior, evaluate opportunities, define success metrics, and assess experiment results.
Demonstrated experience with product growth, experimentation, activation, adoption, engagement, retention, or other data-driven product optimization work.
Strong understanding of customer needs and interest in building products that users discover, adopt, and use regularly.

Nice To Haves

Experience building or working with agentic AI products, large language model applications, machine learning systems, or AI-assisted product experiences.

Responsibilities

Define technical direction and lead execution for product growth initiatives across Glean’s user-facing experiences.
Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, and Applied AI to identify and prioritize opportunities to increase product awareness, adoption, activation, and engagement.
Lead a team of full-stack engineers building measurable experiences that help users realize value more quickly and return to the product more frequently.
Use product data, customer insights, behavioral analysis, and experimentation to identify growth opportunities and inform technical and product decisions.
Establish an experimentation and measurement foundation, including hypotheses, success metrics, instrumentation, experiment design, analysis, and iteration.
Own projects end to end, from identifying user or customer problems through technical design, implementation, launch, measurement, and follow-through.
Stay close to code and architecture by contributing directly where needed, reviewing designs and code, debugging complex issues, and maintaining a high technical bar.
Provide backend and systems leadership while partnering across the full stack and user-facing product experience.
Collaborate with engineering teams across Glean to deliver cohesive experiences and scalable growth foundations.
Engage with users and customers when useful to understand their needs, identify friction, and ensure growth initiatives solve meaningful problems.
Hire, coach, and develop engineers as the team grows; establish effective engineering practices and an environment of ownership, learning, and high-quality execution.