Senior Engineering Manager, Learning Platform & AI

United States Digital Space LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 222,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

The Self-Serve team at the company seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Learning end-to-end—balancing self-paced learning, hands-on labs, and enterprise-managed learning—while scaling AI-powered content generation and tutoring within a 0→1 product. You’ll manage a team of engineers, shape architecture, and collaborate across R&D, marketing, and field teams.

With 15+ years in software engineering and 5+ years in engineering management, you will drive strategy, ship on a bold learning

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience, including 2+ years managing other managers (or clear readiness to).
• Technical Depth: A Staff engineer caliber IC background before pivoting to management, with full-stack experience (including back-end, not purely front-end/UI); comfort leading a mix of front-end and full-stack engineers.
• Scaling: Proven experience scaling engineering teams from 10 to 30+ engineers.
• Product & Domain Fit: A track record building and scaling consumer-facing products, ideally taking early-stage products from 0→1 through scale. Scope- and impact-driven over team-size-driven.
• Genuine excitement for product-led growth and putting AI to work in a real product.
• Systems at scale: Experience designing scalable, distributed, customer-facing systems, ideally in a SaaS environment.
• Collaboration: Strong ability to align technical strategy with company growth objectives across product, engineering, and go-to-market partners.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical and product strategy for Learning, and tie it into the broader self-serve growth motion.
• Own the roadmap, execution, and delivery — taking a 0→1 product from early signal to millions of learners at the highest standards of quality.
• Establish team best practices — design reviews, code quality, testing, and performance for high-scale, interactive systems.
• Partner closely across R&D, the Learning & Enablement org, Marketing (university and online channels), and Field Engineering to align the product with how learners actually reach and adopt the company.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering management

Full-stack experience

Distributed systems

Leadership

SaaS

Job description

The Self-Serve team at the company seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Learning end-to-end—balancing self-paced learning, hands-on labs, and enterprise-managed learning—while scaling AI-powered content generation and tutoring within a 0→1 product. You’ll manage a team of engineers, shape architecture, and collaborate across R&D, marketing, and field teams.

With 15+ years in software engineering and 5+ years in engineering management, you will drive strategy, ship on a bold learning