Senior AI Engineering Manager: Build Agentic Systems

Genius AI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Genius AI is seeking an engineering leader in San Francisco to build and guide a lean, AI-native engineering team. You will prototype and ship agentic systems used by real users, while aligning engineering work with business outcomes such as pipeline, revenue, and time saved.

You’ll collaborate across Sales, Marketing, and Operations, and help define processes that scale with AI-driven product teams, ensuring fast, measureable impact while maintaining high-quality standards.

Qualifications

• You’ve personally built and shipped agentic systems with real users in the last 12 months.
• You can tell us how you measure whether a team is using AI well and what it would miss.
• You’d rather grow output than headcount and have raised the team’s expectations to match.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a lean team of engineers, setting the bar for an AI-native engineering team.
• Drive go-to-market outcomes and provide readouts executives trust with clear metrics.
• Run an efficient engagement loop: intake, one-week sprints, and durable handoffs to partner teams.

Skills

Agentic systems

Engineering management

Software engineering

Cross-functional instincts

Metrics aligned with business outcomes

Job description

Genius AI is seeking an engineering leader in San Francisco to build and guide a lean, AI-native engineering team. You will prototype and ship agentic systems used by real users, while aligning engineering work with business outcomes such as pipeline, revenue, and time saved.

You’ll collaborate across Sales, Marketing, and Operations, and help define processes that scale with AI-driven product teams, ensuring fast, measureable impact while maintaining high-quality standards.