Head of Product Engineering

Plaud Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful Ownership

High-Impact Environment

Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Productivity

Best-in-Class Equipment

Team & Culture

Job summary

Plaud Inc. seeks an experienced head of engineering to lead multi‑team product groups across the US and Asia, owning device connections, AI transcription and summaries, and enterprise tooling. You will set the technical strategy and drive delivery across mobile, web, desktop and hardware.

You will mentor senior managers, and collaborate with Product, Design, Platform and Infrastructure to align roadmaps. Candidates should have 10+ years in software engineering and 5+ years leading large teams,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering and 5+ years leading managers of multi-team product engineering organizations (40+ engineers).
• Proven track record shipping consumer or prosumer products across mobile, web and desktop. Hardware-connected or AI-heavy products are highly preferred.
• Distributed teams across the US and Asia with a clear operating model for time zones.
• Strong technical depth: able to review architectures, challenge estimates and unblock complex projects hands-on.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered features in production, including prompts, retrieval, evals, and cost and quality tradeoffs.
• Track record of raising delivery velocity while keeping quality and team health high, backed by metrics.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication with Product, Design, executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the engineering strategy for Plaud's core product: device connection and recording, AI transcription and summaries, shared workspaces and collaboration, admin tools for business customers, and later growth.
• Lead, mentor and grow the engineering leads of every product team across the US and Asia, through hiring, coaching and a high bar for craft and delivery.
• Own engineering velocity and quality across the product teams, shortening the path from idea to shipped feature on mobile, web, desktop and the device handoff.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Platform and Infrastructure to turn priorities into a single roadmap and dated commitments.
• Establish clear end-to-end ownership, so every service, handoff and on-call rotation has one owning team, and teams run what they build.
• Build an operating model for teams that span time zones, with written specs and a fixed daily overlap, and move each team toward a single time zone over time.
• Drive AI-native engineering across every team, including evals in CI/CD, AI-assisted development and fast experiments on AI features.
• Be the Platform team's main internal customer: use shared services instead of rebuilding them, and give regular feedback on what Platform delivers.
• Resolve technical disputes between teams quickly and in writing.

Skills

Software leadership

Distributed teams

Cross-functional collaboration

Architectural review

AI/ML production

Multi-platform shipping

Delivery velocity

Tools

Gemini

Claude Code

Job description

About Plaud Inc.

Plaud is building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence, elevate productivity and performance, loved by over 3,000,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud captures, structures, and compounds the intelligence generated in conversations — so humans can think better, decide faster, and execute with clarity.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company. With GDPR, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and EN 18031 compliance, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.

To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Why You Should Join Us

Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.

• Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.

• Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.

• Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.

• Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.

• Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.

• Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.

You would lead the engineering teams behind our core product: the apps that connect to Plaud devices and record conversations, AI transcription and summaries, shared workspaces and collaboration, and admin tools for business customers. Your teams work across the US and Asia, and you'd own how fast and how well we ship one product across hardware, mobile, web and desktop.

What you will do

• Define and drive the engineering strategy for Plaud's core product: device connection and recording, AI transcription and summaries, shared workspaces and collaboration, admin tools for business customers, and later growth. Each team builds for every customer, from free users to large enterprises.

• Lead, mentor and grow the engineering leads of every product team across the US and Asia, through hiring, coaching and a high bar for craft and delivery.

• Own engineering velocity and quality across the product teams, shortening the path from idea to shipped feature on mobile, web, desktop and the device handoff.

• Partner closely with Product, Design, Platform and Infrastructure to turn priorities into a single roadmap and dated commitments.

• Establish clear end-to-end ownership, so every service, handoff and on-call rotation has one owning team, and teams run what they build.

• Build an operating model for teams that span time zones, with written specs and a fixed daily overlap, and move each team toward a single time zone over time.

• Drive AI-native engineering across every team, including evals in CI/CD, AI-assisted development and fast experiments on AI features.

• Be the Platform team's main internal customer: use shared services instead of rebuilding them, and give regular feedback on what Platform delivers.

• Resolve technical disputes between teams quickly and in writing.

Skills, qualifications and experience we look for

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading managers of multi-team product engineering organizations (40+ engineers).

• Proven track record shipping consumer or prosumer products across mobile, web and desktop. Hardware-connected or AI-heavy products are highly preferred.

• Demonstrated success leading distributed teams across the US and Asia, with a clear operating model for teams that span time zones.

• Strong technical depth: able to review architectures, challenge estimates and unblock complex projects hands‑on.

• Experience shipping LLM-powered features in production, including prompts, retrieval, evals, and cost and quality tradeoffs.

• Track record of raising delivery velocity while keeping quality and team health high, backed by metrics.

• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills with Product, Design, executives and engineers.

What we offer

1. Meaningful Ownership An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) that gives a real stake in Plaud’s long-term success.

2. High-Impact Environment Work in a fast-moving, product-driven environment where your ideas directly shape the future of AI productivity.

3. Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Productivity Access to best-in-class AI tools, including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems to maximize engineering and execution efficiency.

4. Best-in-Class Equipment Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices for all new hires.

5. Team & Culture Annual company offsites, team events, and a culture that values craftsmanship, ownership, and velocity.

Disclaimer: Plaud is and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.