Engineering Manager, Apps

People.ai accelerates enterprise growth through the power of AI. With the industry’s only Revenue Intelligence System, People.ai frees all customer-facing teams, including sales, marketing, and customer success, from manual data entry by automatically capturing all contact and customer activity data, dynamically updating CRM and other systems of record, and providing actionable intelligence across management tools to realize the full selling capacity of the enterprise. Some of the world’s best brands are leveraging People.ai to transform their business, including Lyft, New Relic, Okta, Tanium, and Zoom.

At People.ai, we believe that people enrich the world around them in countless ways. We believe that the more time they spend applying their creativity, resourcefulness and critical thinking to activities that matter most in their professional life, the more effective a professional they become. We're developing a deep understanding of the professional world, mapping people, companies, and the information that flows between them through natural language processing and machine learning. Our team is a diverse, outspoken group of creatives and critical thinkers, hyper-focused on driving enterprise growth. We embrace different. We applaud non-traditional career paths. We're inspired by people who have made processes their own. 

As Engineering Manager you will drive the evolution of the People.ai web application (Sales solution) to provide our customers (specifically their GTM teams) with data-driven guidance and actionable insights on how to better market, sell and serve their customers. Own and drive the Engineering plan for the Sales solution product line.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team to develop use cases that provide data-driven guidance and insights to different personas across GTM teams, with a focus on high quality product releases and key metrics like WAU. Build People.ai Web application as an indispensable tool for Sales Managers to provide insightful coaching to their teams.
• Develop a long-term architectural direction along with Staff engineers in the team for building a consistent and sticky application experience across multiple platforms (web, mobile) and notification mechanisms (email, web, IM, and more).
• Establish a focus on enabling all Engineering teams to deliver content to our customers.
• Create a set of APIs to empower multiple Engineering teams to deliver content through the app and multiple notifications channels (MS Teams, Slack, Mobile).
• Grow the Sales solution team; actively develop a leadership bench inside the team and bootstrap our mobile development function. 
• Continue to evolve our software development process to ensure customer-centric development with Product, Design, Data Science, and Engineering working together. Work with cross functional teams to ensure smooth launches and delivery of features.

Requirements

• Experience building a new product from scratch and taking it to Product Market Fit by working on small iterations, measuring success through usage KPIs, and adapting based on user feedback and those usage metrics. Experience shipping products with frequency (daily, weekly, monthly in an agile fashion)
• Demonstrate ability to design and build highly reusable APIs (both internal and customer-facing) and setting a long-term architectural direction to back them up.
• Experience and aptitude for growing and supporting strong engineering teams.
• Experience working with UI and Mobile development teams.
• Demonstrate ability to work cross functionally with peers from InfoSec, Privacy, Legal, Customer success/Technical success and other engineering teams.

People.ai stands alone in our ability to harness business activity to unlock growth for our customers. We’ve been awarded 49 patents and have an additional 50+ under review. We’ve also received validation via Gartner’s Hype Cycle for CRM Sales Technology, inclusion in Forrester’s New XX Wave, the Y Combinator Top Companies List, and the Forbes AI 50 list.

Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, People.ai is backed by Y Combinator and Silicon Valley’s top investors, including ICONIQ Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Akkadian Ventures, and Mubadala Capital. To learn more, visit us online at: www.people.ai"