[Remote] Engineering Manager, Agent

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Descript is a company focused on revolutionizing video editing through AI technologies. They are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead their Agent team in building innovative video editing tools while managing a team of software engineers and collaborating across various departments.

Responsibilities

• Own execution: Manage team prioritizes, drive alignment across stakeholders, adapt plans to maximize outcomes, and hold a high bar for delivery through active planning, prioritization, and follow-through
• Define team direction: Connect customer needs, product vision, and technical realities in close collaboration with Product, Design, and AI Research by setting clear priorities and making tradeoffs to deliver results
• Develop your team: Recruit, mentor, and grow engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and high performance. Create stretch opportunities for ICs, deliver clear and direct feedback, and manage underperformance early
• Drive operational excellence: Ensure execution is predictable, reliable, and sustainable, implementing best practices in project management and engineering processes
• Maintain the technical bar: Guide architectural decisions, ensure sound design tradeoffs, address tech debt that slows execution, and drive delivery of high-quality, reliable systems

Skills

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years of engineering management experience delivering complex, cross-functional product work with high velocity and quality
• Excels at hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineering talent, and creating collaborative, empowering, and high-performing team environments
• Strong technical background with the ability to guide architectural decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and maintain engineering excellence without being hands-on day-to-day
• Communicates clearly and effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, and thrives in collaborative environments working closely with Product, Design, and Research partners
• Plans ahead on a 12+ month horizon, but prioritizes and re-prioritizes aggressively as new information emerges. Makes and communicates calculated bets
• Thrives in fast-paced, rapidly changing environments, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive results. High ownership and a bias toward action is a must
• Experience building agents, developing evals, or leading teams building LLM-powered products
• Experience building creative tools in the past or you're a frequent user of creative media tools

Benefits

• A generous healthcare package
• 401k matching program
• Catered lunches
• Flexible vacation time
• A handful of opportunities throughout the year for in person collaboration (for those who are remote)
• Flexible, and you're an adult—we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day (for our hybrid roles)

Company Overview

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