# Technical Lead Manager, AI

**Company:** [Ironclad](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ironclad)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $245k – $295k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** llm orchestration, ai model evaluation, Distributed Systems, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, Prompt Engineering, retrieval patterns
**Posted:** 2026-07-15

> Technical Lead Manager for Ironclad's Jurist AI contract review platform. Set technical vision across full stack, lead architecture for redlining/suggestions/obligation detection, own quality and evals, and manage/grow a cross-functional engineering team. Requires 5+ years building complex production systems, 2+ years technical leadership, deep applied AI and backend expertise, and strong product instincts.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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.
- Lead 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.

## Requirements
- 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.
- 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; know when to go deep technically and when to simplify.
- 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 (TypeScript, React, Node.js, Docker/Kubernetes, and Google Cloud experience is a plus).
- Deep care about building tools users love, not just systems that technically work.
- Ability to translate domain complexity into intuitive product behavior and clear engineering priorities.
- Enjoy close collaboration with product managers, designers, researchers, and customer-facing teams to iterate quickly on new capabilities.
- Think about the full user journey, from the moment a reviewer opens a contract to the moment it's signed.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience at the intersection of legal workflows, applied AI, and end-user experience.
- Prior work with contract review, redlining, obligation detection, or playbook libraries.

## Compensation
- Base Salary Range: $245,000 - $295,000 (San Francisco headquarters; actual offer depends on experience and location).
- Equity awards (new hire grant + additional opportunities).
- 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, vision); 75% for dependents.
- Market-leading leave policies including gender-neutral parental leave.
- Family forming support through Maven.
- Paid time off.
- Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and cell phone.
- Mental health support through Modern Health.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Regular team events.

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