Typically 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years managing engineers Experience shipping AI, ML, or LLM-powered products to production, with enough hands-on depth in TypeScript, Python, and AI-assisted tools to make sound technical calls A track record of hiring well and growing teams A data-driven approach: you use metrics to run your team and to judge whether what you ship is working Comfort leading across more than one reporting line, and strong written communication with executives Nice to have . Hire, grow, and retain a strong team of software, ML, and AI engineers, with clear feedback and fair performance and career conversations Own delivery: planning, priorities, execution, and production quality, with metrics that show how the team and its products are doing Partner with product and domain experts to shape the roadmap, and lead across teams Set how the team uses AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools, and model it yourself Requirements: