Engineering Manager, Platform
About Norm Ai
Norm Ai, the agentic law company, serves clients with a combined $30 trillion in assets under management. Norm Ai pioneered Legal Engineering, enabling lawyers to build and oversee AI agents using its proprietary suite of no-code software tools. The company's technology is integral to products like Norm Ai and Norm Law, LLP, which advises major institutions in various sectors.
AI Fluency
AI fluency is expected of all team members. Successful candidates must actively use AI in their work to enhance efficiency and innovation. They are required to demonstrate and discuss their AI usage during the interview process, providing concrete examples of tools, workflows, and outcomes. Practical, hands-on experience is valued over theoretical knowledge.
Role
As an Engineering Manager on the Platform team, you will lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for building shared systems and infrastructure. Your focus is on team growth, performance, and alignment with business objectives. You will coach engineers, set priorities, and ensure the team's productivity and quality.
Skills & Experience
Core: 4+ years of experience as an engineering manager, proven track record of managing and developing high-performing engineers, strong understanding of modern software development practices, experience driving execution in fast-moving, high-growth environments, strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills, sound business judgment and excellent communication, experience leading or building cloud infrastructure, platform, or shared-services systems, exposure to AI/ML workloads, background in startups or high-growth environments.
Pluses: Experience in regulated or compliance-heavy domains.
What Success Looks Like
30 Days: Build strong relationships with your reports and partners across engineering leadership, develop a working understanding of Norm’s platform systems, team structure, and current priorities, establish clear 1:1 and communication rhythms with each engineer.
60 Days: Partner with technical leads on aligning people with the work where they'll have the greatest impact, build a concrete growth plan with each engineer, understand the initiatives your engineers support and how they fit together.
90 Days: Demonstrate consistent, predictable team delivery, with clear ownership and a healthy on-call and quality bar, establish yourself as a trusted partner to technical leadership, run interview loops that consistently reflect Norm’s hiring bar.
Comp & Benefits
$240,000 - $280,000 per year + equity. The range reflects base salary only and includes a 401(k) with employer match, comprehensive insurance (health, dental, hospital, accident, and vision), and relocation reimbursement for candidates moving to NYC. We operate in a flexible hybrid model, typically in-office 3–4 days per week.