Engineering Manager, AI-Driven AP Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

the company LLC in San Francisco is seeking an engineering leader to guide the next generation of Accounts Payable software, balancing customer needs with technical excellence. This role sits between Expense Management and Banking products, requires building and coaching a 7-10 engineer team, and involves weekly in-office cadence with three days in the office per week.

You will shape technical and product direction, own the roadmap in a founder-shaped domain, and bring an AI-forward mindset.

Qualifications

• Track record of leadership building and scaling customer-facing products.
• Strong product sense and ability to defend product and UX tradeoffs.
• Staff-engineer level technical bar.
• Strong customer empathy and advocacy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrated coaching and mentorship of engineers across levels.
• Minimum 2+ years in an engineering management role.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a full-stack team (7-10 engineers) owning a defined part of the company's next-generation Accounts Payable software, growing it through hiring and onboarding new engineers.
• Help define and continually sharpen the team's mandate within the broader Payments group — what it owns, where to invest and how to continuously win customers.
• Set the team's technical and product direction, making thoughtful tradeoffs about what to build, in what order, and why.
• Ship a high-quality, reliable, competitive Accounts Payable product, balancing customer-facing feature velocity with a durable technical foundation.
• Foster a people-centered culture, one built on enablement, trust, and context-sharing.
• Partner cross-functionally across Design and Product to align on scope and delivery.
• Provide strong coaching, mentorship, and career development for engineers at all levels.
• Bring an AI-forward mindset to how the team builds and operates. We expect you to be a continuous bar-raiser on AI for the team.
• Translate customer feedback into engineering priorities. Drive product discovery and champion the user’s voice in technical trade-off discussions to ensure the team is building the right features for the right reasons.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Product sense

Staff-level technical

Customer empathy

Communication

Mentorship

Engineering management

Job description

the company LLC in San Francisco is seeking an engineering leader to guide the next generation of Accounts Payable software, balancing customer needs with technical excellence. This role sits between Expense Management and Banking products, requires building and coaching a 7-10 engineer team, and involves weekly in-office cadence with three days in the office per week.

You will shape technical and product direction, own the roadmap in a founder-shaped domain, and bring an AI-forward mindset.