Engineering Manager, AI-Native Platform

Deepgram; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Deepgram is seeking an Engineering Manager to help drive our product-led growth strategy. You will lead a team of frontend and backend engineers who work on self‑serve products like Console, and Product Playground, collaborating with Product, Sales, and Marketing to execute the next‑generation vision for our self‑service platform.

In this role you will own technical decisions, oversee design and delivery, and coach engineers through a period of rapid scale.

Qualifications

• Strong technical background building world-class user-facing applications.
• Proven management and leadership experience.
• The ability to drive technical decisions in a scalable and thoughtful manner.
• Passion about good engineering practices, emerging technologies, and improving processes.
• A consistent record of mentoring and coaching team members.
• A passion for navigating the team through the real-world constraints of a startup: how to build quickly, iterate frequently, and run experiments.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of multi-disciplined software engineers to build web applications, agentic tooling integrations, and account management services.
• Work closely with the rest of the leadership and product management team on product strategy and roadmap refinement, with a focus on AI-native developer experience.
• Oversee technical design, task decomposition, and daily standups to ensure the team is executing on schedule.
• Lead the creation of features and product releases by being closely involved with the product development, design, and review—including AI agent playground environments and LLM-powered developer tooling.
• Drive the self‑serve growth engine: activation funnels, in-product upgrade flows, and PLG experimentation and self serve deployments.
• Work with other team leads from across the product organization on cross‑functional projects, help identify the critical paths, and resolve dependencies.
• Hold regular 1-on-1s with direct reports, help them navigate challenges, and coach them for their career development.

Skills

Leadership experience

Software architecture

Mentoring

Startup experience

AI-native experience

Rust

Elm

Postgres

MCP servers

Tools

Rust

Elm

Postgres

MCP servers

Job description

Deepgram is seeking an Engineering Manager to help drive our product-led growth strategy. You will lead a team of frontend and backend engineers who work on self‑serve products like Console, and Product Playground, collaborating with Product, Sales, and Marketing to execute the next‑generation vision for our self‑service platform.

In this role you will own technical decisions, oversee design and delivery, and coach engineers through a period of rapid scale.