# Director, Product Engineering

**Company:** [Braintrust](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/braintrust)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, React, SQL, Next.js, Frontend Architecture, UI Design, Interaction Design, Web Applications, Llm Products, Prompt Management
**Posted:** 2026-08-25

> Leads Braintrust’s product engineering organization, shaping technical direction, UI quality, and delivery of AI-focused product experiences. The role combines engineering team leadership with hands-on architectural and product collaboration across sophisticated, data-intensive web applications.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and lead an exceptional product engineering team, fostering ownership, ambition, and strong execution.
- Raise the bar for Braintrust’s UI across interaction design, performance, reliability, and product polish.
- Own the technical direction of the product and evolve frontend architecture for sophisticated workflows, larger datasets, and a growing customer base.
- Partner with Product and Design to understand users, shape the roadmap, and make key technical decisions.
- Lead delivery of product capabilities including a prompt playground, prompt management and versioning, multiplayer human review, and large-scale LLM analysis.
- Build AI-focused products that support prompt experimentation, versioning, collaborative review, and analysis across large datasets.

## Requirements
- Proven experience building, managing, and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
- Track record of recruiting exceptional engineers and developing future leaders.
- Strong product judgment and UI craft, including usability, performance, interaction design, and attention to detail.
- Deep technical expertise in modern web applications and sophisticated, data-intensive products.
- Comfortable with TypeScript, React, SQL, and Next.js.
- Builder’s mindset with the ability to move between organizational strategy and architecture decisions.
- High ownership, bias toward action, and ability to balance speed with quality.

## Nice-to-haves
- Startup or AI experience.
- Experience building LLM-powered products or leading teams through rapid growth.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages.
- Flexible time off.
- Wi-Fi and cellphone stipend.

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