Growth Tech Lead Manager — Product & Growth

Candidate; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, Dental coverage

Home office stipend

Education and wellness stipends

Lunches and other on-site amenities

Job summary

Glean is hiring a product-minded Tech Lead Manager to establish and lead our Product Growth engineering function in Mountain View. You will guide architecture, collaborate with product, design, data science, and applied AI, and grow a high-impact team focused on user growth and engagement.

You will own end-to-end initiatives, stay hands-on when needed, and help shape technical direction while shipping measurable improvements for our B2B SaaS platform used across enterprise apps.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building production distributed systems or cloud-native applications.
• 1+ years of engineering management experience of a full stack team.
• Product-forward software engineering leadership with experience shipping user-facing products, preferably in B2B SaaS, AI, productivity or collaboration.
• Strong track record of execution, making sound technical decisions, and delivering measurable outcomes.
• Experience partnering with Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists to define problems and deliver improvements.
• Analytical, data-driven mindset to understand user behavior, metrics, and experiment results.
• Experience with product growth, activation, adoption, engagement, retention, or data-driven optimization work.
• Experience with agentic AI products, LLM apps, ML systems, or AI-assisted product experiences is a plus.

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 opportunities that increase awareness, adoption, activation, and engagement.
• Lead a team of full-stack engineers to build measurable experiences delivering value quickly and encouraging repeat use.
• Use data, insights, and experimentation to identify growth opportunities and guide decisions.
• Establish robust experimentation and measurement, including hypotheses, metrics, instrumentation, and iteration.
• Own projects end-to-end from problem identification to design, implementation, launch, measurement, and follow-through.
• Stay close to code and architecture, review designs, debug issues, and maintain high technical standards.
• Provide backend and systems leadership and collaborate across the full stack and user-facing product experience.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver cohesive experiences and scalable growth foundations.
• Engage with users to understand needs and reduce friction; assist in hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering management

Product-led

Data-driven

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science

Job description

Glean is hiring a product-minded Tech Lead Manager to establish and lead our Product Growth engineering function in Mountain View. You will guide architecture, collaborate with product, design, data science, and applied AI, and grow a high-impact team focused on user growth and engagement.

You will own end-to-end initiatives, stay hands-on when needed, and help shape technical direction while shipping measurable improvements for our B2B SaaS platform used across enterprise apps.