Engineering Manager, AI-Driven Automation

Retool, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Retool, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Automation team, building the next generation of workflows, integrations, and AI-driven agents that orchestrate end-to-end processes across customer environments.

You will balance rapid experimentation with long-term architectural soundness, partnering with Product, Design, and GTM to translate customer needs into scalable automation capabilities.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience leading and managing engineering teams.
• Strong technical judgment; able to engage in design and architecture decisions.
• Track record delivering complex systems, workflows, or developer-facing products.
• Strong product instincts linking decisions to customer needs and business impact.
• Clear point of view on AI-driven automation and production readiness.
• Balance between delivery speed, reliability, and maintainability.
• Experience coaching engineers, performance management, and hiring.
• Ability to own outcomes and navigate ambiguity with accountability.

Responsibilities

• Lead a fullstack team building Retool’s automation capabilities, including workflows, integrations, and AI-driven agents.
• Partner with Product and Design to define the team’s strategy and roadmap, connecting technical investments to customer needs and business impact.
• Guide technical design and architecture across workflow execution, state management, service integrations, observability, and system reliability.
• Help shape how AI agents operate in production, including autonomous execution, human oversight, debugging, and recovery when things go wrong.
• Drive execution from scoping through launch and iteration, making tradeoffs, resolving dependencies, and balancing experimentation with reliable delivery.
• Work directly with customers and go-to-market partners to understand complex business processes and translate them into reusable automation capabilities.
• Support engineers through continuous feedback, coaching, growth opportunities, and clear performance expectations.
• Build processes that improve delivery and cross-team collaboration, and partner with Recruiting to grow a diverse team of exceptional engineers.

Skills

Leadership experience

Technical judgment

Systems architecture

Product instincts

AI-driven automation

Delivery reliability

Coaching engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership mindset

Communication skills

Job description

Retool, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Automation team, building the next generation of workflows, integrations, and AI-driven agents that orchestrate end-to-end processes across customer environments.

You will balance rapid experimentation with long-term architectural soundness, partnering with Product, Design, and GTM to translate customer needs into scalable automation capabilities.