Product Engineering Manager – AI Interfaces & Growth

Cartesia

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 200,000 - 260,000

Full time

11 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance
Dental & Vision
401(k)
Commuter Allowance
Flexible PTO
Parental Leave
Meals & Snacks

Job summary

Cartesia is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Product Engineering team in San Francisco. The role blends hands-on technical work with people leadership, embedding with the Voices squad and expanding ownership across product surfaces including billing and shared infrastructure.

You'll hire, mentor, and establish an operating rhythm to ship exceptional products quickly and with quality, while maintaining strong architectural judgment and customer focus.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of product engineering experience, including leading or managing engineers.
  • Strong current technical ability with architecture, design reviews, debugging, and production-quality code.
  • Experience building polished, customer-facing product surfaces and explaining what makes an experience excellent.
  • Track record of coaching engineers and handling performance issues.
  • Leading through context, judgment, and contribution rather than just reporting lines.
  • Experience with cross-functional work with Product and Design to set direction.
  • Experience hiring product engineers in a competitive market, including sourcing and closing.

Responsibilities

  • Build alongside the team and contribute directly to product and technical work, especially during growth.
  • Lead and develop product engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development.
  • Grow the Product Engineering team by sourcing, interviewing, and closing exceptional engineers.
  • Partner with Product and Design to shape what we build and make strong tradeoffs.
  • Establish a predictable execution cadence while maintaining speed.
  • Raise the quality bar through hands-on design and code reviews.
  • Take ownership of cross-cutting surfaces (billing, files, rotations) and contribute when needed.
  • Define how Product Engineering should evolve while staying close to customers and code.

Skills

Product engineering leadership
People leadership
Architectural design
Code review
Hiring
Cross-functional collaboration
Voice AI interest

Job description

Cartesia is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Product Engineering team in San Francisco. The role blends hands-on technical work with people leadership, embedding with the Voices squad and expanding ownership across product surfaces including billing and shared infrastructure.

You'll hire, mentor, and establish an operating rhythm to ship exceptional products quickly and with quality, while maintaining strong architectural judgment and customer focus.

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