Technical Lead Manager, AI

About the role

This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco office. Office attendance is required at least twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for collaboration and connection. There may be additional in-office days for team or company events.

What You'll Do

• Set the technical vision and roadmap for Jurist, spanning the full stack from user-facing review UI to the backend systems that power accurate, reliable AI outputs.
• Led architecture and execution for Jurist's core experiences: first-pass redlining, reasoning-backed suggestions, deviation summaries, obligation detection, and playbook-driven review workflows.
• Own the end-to-end quality bar for Jurist, including evals, benchmarking, error analysis, regression prevention, and product instrumentation that improves accuracy and user trust over time.
• Drive backend and platform decisions that support document understanding, AI orchestration, review state management, permissions, and enterprise-scale performance.
• Shape the Jurist UI and interaction model in close partnership with Product and Design, ensuring AI outputs are explainable, actionable, and trustworthy for legal and business users.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Legal domain experts, Services, and go-to-market teams to translate customer pain points into scalable product capabilities.
• Manage and grow a team of strong engineers across frontend and backend, balancing speed, technical rigor, and product judgment.
• Establish strong engineering practices across design reviews, technical planning, experimentation, rollout safety, and operational excellence.

What We're Looking For

• Experience and leadership: 5+ years of experience architecting, building, and operating complex software systems in production. 2+ years of technical leadership or engineering management experience, including mentoring and growing high-performing teams.
• A strong track record of shipping ambiguous, zero-to-one or one-to-scale products where product and technical direction evolved quickly.
• High agency and strong product instincts; you know when to go deep technically and when to simplify.
• Technical depth: Experience building and owning user-facing products end-to-end, including both the UI layer and the backend systems that support it. Deep backend and distributed systems experience, especially in systems that need to be reliable, observable, secure, and scalable. Hands-on fluency with modern applied AI systems, including LLM orchestration, retrieval patterns, prompt and workflow design, model evaluation, and production quality controls. Experience building user-facing AI products where accuracy, explainability, and trust materially affect adoption. Comfort working across application, platform, and infrastructure layers. Familiarity with modern web and cloud stacks.

Our Teams

• The TLM role at Ironclad: We believe in technical leaders who stay close to the work. Roughly 80% building: shaping technical direction, designing systems, reviewing architecture, driving quality, and staying hands-on where it matters most. Roughly 20% leading: coaching engineers, managing performance, hiring thoughtfully, and building a healthy, high-ownership team culture.

Compensation Range

Base Salary Range: $245,000 - $295,000