AI-Driven Engineering Manager — Lead & Ship Products

ClickUp; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a product engineering team in a role that adapts to prioritites across product areas. You will mentor engineers, own delivery, and drive architecture while leveraging AI-native workflows.

The role requires shipping code and guiding teams to maintain quality and reliability. The position emphasizes hands-on leadership, collaboration with product and design, and building scalable systems that deliver customer value.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on senior engineer time.
• 2+ years managing an engineering team.
• Proficiency with modern production codebases (TypeScript, Node.js, React or similar).
• Track record delivering customer-facing SaaS products with ownership for reliability and maintenance.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers, including performance feedback.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a product engineering team, including hiring, onboarding, mentorship, performance, and career growth.
• Own delivery from planning through release and follow-through, with milestones and risk management.
• Set priorities with product, design, and leadership, balancing features, reliability, and technical debt.
• Lead technically from the front: review PRs, debug production issues, and contribute code when needed.
• Drive architecture decisions with senior engineers and technical leads.
• Run an AI-native team: implement and govern AI tools and agentic workflows.
• Maintain a high engineering bar across design, testing, security, and maintainability.
• Own operational health of the team's product area, including monitoring and incident response.
• Collaborate across product teams to resolve dependencies and deliver coherent experiences.
• Keep visibility into priorities, progress, risks, and decisions with evidence-based working.

Skills

Hands-on leadership

Team management

Cross-functional collaboration

AI fluency

Technical judgment

Code review

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Job description

ClickUp is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a product engineering team in a role that adapts to prioritites across product areas. You will mentor engineers, own delivery, and drive architecture while leveraging AI-native workflows.

The role requires shipping code and guiding teams to maintain quality and reliability. The position emphasizes hands-on leadership, collaboration with product and design, and building scalable systems that deliver customer value.