Senior AI Engineering Manager

We are separating a new product vertical in relativity around Search and AI in Search to revamp the way we do search in legal world. This is no small task – as it requires building systems that work with 10s of petabytes of highly sensitive data, enabling information retrieval on very complex matters in a cloud native way. The new search organization will have a big mission of redesigning and moderning our search platform (serving petabytes of data) to make it future proof (this will require replatforming from SQL-Based world to more cloud native search-dedicated world) and embed it with AI – with the new ways to search – natural language and vector search.

This his position is responsible for leading multiple highly effective teams in the development and delivery of our new Search Platform- they are the subject matter expert for each of the product features they are involved in. The Senior Manager is also responsible for evolving the department processes and for the professional development of their reports. The Senior Manager will be driving the execution of a large part of the roamap, manage internalJob Description and Requirements

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the product roadmap and use it to bring purpose to the team and their backlog.
• Maintain
• Has effective ability to scope and drive features and products, delivering updates.
• Deliver results, within time and scope, and bring visibility through regular reporting.
• Maintain accountability behind the features and products they own.
• Develop deep software product knowledge within their area of ownership.
• Display an ownership mindset; be accountable for and beyond the features your team develops.
• Use independent judgment to develop strategic vision within multiple feature sets or domains.
• Implement operational policies and directives.
• Lead a team of software and quality engineers, architects and technical product managers to be effective in the design and development of software applications and systems per business demands and requirements.
• Validate resource utilization to ensure efficient deployment of team members.
• Be able to make prioritization decisions, negotiate what is more important than the other and then follow through on that.
• Tackle significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires analysis of intangibles and providing direction on actions to be taken.
• Manage the professional development of their Managers and their teams under them and be the subject matter expert for the product features they are involved in.
• Work collaboratively with Managers and their teams to identify and develop the talents of each individual on their teams.
• Maintain responsibility for building and leading multiple, highly effective teams of software engineers, and work with departmental contacts to support the demands of the department and meet the objectives of the product development process.
• Keep your team’s vision aligned with bigger picture in mind.
• Serve as technology advisor to the business on all aspects of software technology trends and novel solutions specific to their respective domain or feature set.
• Stay on the top of the latest technological progress and use this knowledge to ensure company products and software solutions remain marketable and competitive.
• Be a subject matter expert in your area of our product.
• Use long-term strategic thinking to guide and develop your teams to help them meet overall product goals.
• Exercise a significant latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.
• Think beyond the when crafting solutions and considering the impact.

Your Skills

• 7 or more years of experience managing software product development teams ideally coming in from engineering individual contributor role and grown into management.
• 6+ years of working with large data systems (at least 100+ TB touched), working with search related systems and systems dealing with low-latency user input
• Excellent knowledge of software engineering discipline, including the latest programming languages, object-oriented programming, hands-on architecture high performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems, data structures and algorithms, operating systems, distributed database modeling and access languages, and cloud environments such as SaaS.
• Ability to make large technical decisions with impact and following through on them
• Ability to switch from Tactical view (day-2-day or week-2-week) of operations to longer strategy view (quarter, a year) and see how the tactics build up to a strategy
• Strong teamwork and partnering skills for cross-group collaboration.
• Strong leadership skills, and ability to perform under pressure and optimize the team's resources to attain the business goals.
• Ability to motivate people, instill accountability, and achieve results with great passion to grow people, shape teams and make them work better together.
• In depth knowledge of agile product development methodologies.
• Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills for technical and nontechnical audiences.

Relativity is a diverse workplace with different skills and life experiences—and we love and celebrate those differences. We believe that employees are happiest when they're empowered to be their full, authentic selves, regardless how you identify. 

Benefit Highlights: 

• Company Car
• Comprehensive health plan 
• Flexible work arrangements 
• Two, week-long company breaks per year 
• Unlimited time off 
• Long-term incentive program 
• Training investment program