Tech Lead Manager, Product Growth

Glean•Mountain View, CA

7d•$250,000 - $300,000•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. This high-impact, full-stack leadership role will shape a new growth engineering capability as Glean expands the reach and impact of its Work AI platform. The role 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. Its scope spans invitation and first sign-in, activation, onboarding, engagement, re-entry, and broader adoption across teams and functions. Key touch points include login and setup flows, the home page, navigation, desktop and browser experiences, in-product education, lifecycle communications, and product-led expansion. The Tech Lead Manager will set technical direction, guide architecture, partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, and Applied AI, and lead a team of full-stack engineers. The role combines technical leadership and hands-on contribution with responsibility for experimentation, measurement, end-to-end project delivery, cross-team collaboration, and— as the team grows—hiring, coaching, and developing engineers. The role 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 vary based on location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience; certain roles may also be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

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; experience in B2B SaaS, AI, productivity, collaboration, or other high-engagement software is preferred.
A strong track record of execution, including leading engineers through ambiguity, making sound technical decisions, and delivering meaningful outcomes.
Experience partnering with Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists to define problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver measurable product improvements.
Strong 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.
A strong understanding of customer needs and an 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 from Glean sooner and return more frequently.
Use product data, customer insights, behavioral analysis, and experimentation to understand growth opportunities and inform technical and product decisions.
Establish a strong 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 foundations for growth.
Engage with users and customers when useful to understand their needs, identify friction, and ensure growth initiatives solve meaningful problems.
As the team grows, hire, coach, and develop engineers; establish effective engineering practices; and foster ownership, learning, and high-quality execution.