Senior Engineering Manager - AI-Powered Growth Platform

brightwheel; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Brightwheel is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a full-stack team building AI-powered workflows for our go-to-market organization. You will partner with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Operations, and Data to turn ambiguous problems into reliable products and automation, while maintaining architectural integrity and measurable outcomes.

You will drive discovery, prototype workflows, and work directly with internal users to validate solutions, balancing rapid iteration with

Qualifications

• Experience leading an engineering team delivering measurable outcomes.
• Technical depth to challenge architecture, product, data reliability, and operations.
• Experience shipping an AI-powered product or workflow to production and explaining measurable results.

Responsibilities

• Lead a full-stack engineering team from problem definition through production, measurement, and iteration.
• Translate company goals into clear outcomes, investment choices, and a credible execution plan.
• Set the engineering strategy for quality, reliability, security, privacy, and operational health.
• Ship AI-powered products and change how the team works with AI— not just add AI features.
• Hire and develop strong engineers, set a clear bar, and act when the team or an individual is below it.
• Make capacity, dependencies, forecasts, and risks visible early.
• Work directly with GTM and Operations leaders to identify the real problem, map the workflow, prototype a usable solution, and define how success will be measured before scaling.
• Build internal products and AI workflows that improve revenue, conversion, productivity, or quality; measure adoption and results.
• Own cross-system execution across Salesforce, data, product, and AI services, with clear dependencies and decision rights.

Skills

Team leadership

Technical depth

Engineering strategy

AI product delivery

Talent development

Cross-functional partnerships

Tools

Python

FastAPI

React/TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Airflow

Salesforce

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Brightwheel is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a full-stack team building AI-powered workflows for our go-to-market organization. You will partner with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Operations, and Data to turn ambiguous problems into reliable products and automation, while maintaining architectural integrity and measurable outcomes.

You will drive discovery, prototype workflows, and work directly with internal users to validate solutions, balancing rapid iteration with