# Senior Engineering Manager, Product

**Company:** [Genius AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/genius-ai)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $230k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Engineering Management, Technical Strategy, AI Tools, Software Architecture, Product Development, Design Collaboration, Team Leadership, Recruiting
**Posted:** 2026-05-15

> Leads multiple engineering teams, sets technical direction, and delivers complex product initiatives from inception through launch. Requires 8+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years managing or leading software engineering teams, plus meaningful AI tooling experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead execution across multiple engineering teams and drive complex, multi-team initiatives from planning through completion.
- Align priorities, manage scope trade-offs, and maintain a consistent quality bar.
- Embed AI tooling into engineering workflows to accelerate development, improve code quality, and remove bottlenecks.
- Partner with product and design on 0-to-1 initiatives, owning the path from inception through launch.
- Define technical vision for the domain, anticipating platform needs, scaling challenges, and integration requirements.
- Develop high-potential individual contributors into future engineering leaders.
- Partner with recruiting to attract and retain strong engineers and maintain a high hiring bar.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including at least 3 years managing or leading software engineering teams at a high-growth technology company.
- Meaningful experience integrating AI tooling structurally into engineering workflows.
- Strong technical judgment, including architectural trade-off evaluation and decision-making under uncertainty.
- Strong business acumen and customer-centric judgment, with the ability to connect engineering decisions to customer outcomes.
- Proven ability to collaborate with product and design to ship 0-to-1 initiatives.
- Demonstrated success developing engineers and preparing them for future leadership roles.
- Ability to make decisions, establish technical direction, ship, and iterate based on feedback.

## Benefits
- Health and dental insurance effective on the first day of employment.
- Flexible paid time off.
- In-office lunch twice weekly for New York City and San Francisco employees, plus late-night dinner stipends.
- Wellhub wellness platform access.
- Annual professional development stipend.
- Five-year high-performer recharge stipend.
- 401(k) contributions eligible from the first day of employment.
- Dependent Care FSA.
- Paid parental leave.
- Fertility and adoption benefits.

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