Software Engineering Manager – AI Product Development
CommandLink
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Alabama • Arizona • United States
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Salary
💰 $125,000 - $165,000 per year
About the role
- Own delivery and business outcomes for AI-powered product initiatives, with accountability for ARR impact, adoption, and capital efficiency.
- Lead and grow an engineering team with a focus on output, leverage, and sustainable pace, not headcount growth for its own sake.
- Partner closely with Product, Finance, and GTM to prioritize work based on revenue potential, customer value, and cost-to-serve.
- Drive features that unlock new revenue, expansion, and retention, while improving unit economics.
- Guide architectural decisions with a strong bias toward cost-aware scalability, especially for AI workloads (inference, training, data pipelines).
- Establish engineering practices that maximize engineering ROI, shorter cycle times, fewer handoffs, and predictable delivery.
- Make disciplined tradeoffs to hit market windows while avoiding long-term cost or maintenance drag.
- Track and improve key metrics such as cost per feature, infrastructure spend vs. usage, and revenue per engineering dollar.
- Stay technically engaged through design reviews and selective hands-on work, especially where cost, risk, or scale are involved.
- Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and financial awareness across the team.
- Takes on additional responsibilities and projects as needed to support the success of the team and organization.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3 to 5+ years in engineering management roles
- Experience leading teams in capital-conscious, high-growth environments.
- Proven ownership of customer-facing products tied to revenue and margin outcomes.
- Hands-on experience building and operating AI-enabled systems with real cost constraints.
- Strong product and financial intuition, you can reason about tradeoffs between growth, cost, and long-term leverage.
- Track record of delivering under aggressive timelines without over-hiring or over-engineering.
- Comfort partnering with Product and Finance to make prioritization decisions grounded in ROI.
- Sufficient technical depth to guide architecture, challenge assumptions, and make sound cost/performance tradeoffs.
Benefits
- Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for full-time employees
- Flexible time off
- 401k to help you save for the future
- Fun events at cool locations
- Free DoorDash lunches on Fridays
- Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringAI-enabled systemsarchitecture guidancedata pipelinescost-aware scalabilityengineering practicesmetrics trackingrevenue optimizationfeature deliverycost/performance tradeoffs
Soft Skills
leadershipaccountabilityfinancial awarenessproduct intuitionteam buildingdecision makingtradeoff reasoningcollaborationownershipadaptability