Headstart

Engineering Manager

• Start on a client engagement to learn the work and identify where engineers get stuck
• Build and lead an engineering team
• Provide direct, actionable feedback and develop senior engineers into tech leads
• Set clear priorities and expectations
• Review architecture, agent, prompt, and evaluation design
• Handle difficult technical and client situations, including production regressions and unclear requirements
• Identify and escalate risks early
• Turn patterns across engagements into standing practices, reference implementations, and platform capabilities
• Improve the speed of subsequent engagements
• Shape staffing assignments and plan transitions
• Run hiring for the team from sourcing through onboarding
• Work with product, client partners, and client stakeholders to ensure successful engagements

Senior Engineering Manager, Applied AI

• Manage engineers up to senior, hold a high bar, and give direct, actionable feedback
• Coach engineers on execution and help strong engineers step up toward tech lead
• Review architecture, agent, prompt, and eval design on engagements
• Handle hard technical and client situations, including production regressions and unclear requirements
• Raise trouble early while it is cheap to fix
• Run engagement-level relationships with clients and stakeholders alongside product and client partners
• Manage team transitions, plan ahead, and flag risks before they reach a client
• Escalate conflicts across engagements to the Head of Engineering
• Interview, calibrate, close, and onboard new engineers
• Follow team practices, identify what is not working, share patterns with the wider team, and ensure engineers use existing practices