Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Jasper is a marketing agents platform that helps enterprises orchestrate AI agents to execute marketing work at scale. The Senior Manager, Engineering will lead the IQ Platform team, defining the architecture and technical strategy for the context layer that powers AI agents, while coaching engineers and contributing hands-on to code and systems design. The role will oversee knowledge management, RAG systems, platform delivery, and cross-functional collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Lead the IQ Platform team—set technical direction, coach engineers, and own delivery of major platform initiatives end-to-end
- Chart and communicate the vision for our context layer, aligning engineering investments with business impact and product strategy
- Build and scale our knowledge management system, including external integrations and RAG pipelines that feed high-quality context to our agents
- Design and implement the architecture that makes our context layer self-improving—learning from usage, feedback, and new data to continuously raise quality
- Act as a player-coach: write and review code alongside the team while mentoring engineers and raising the bar on technical excellence
- Partner with Staff-level and senior engineers across the org as a strategic thinking partner on complex, ambiguous problems
- Balance velocity and quality in a startup environment—shipping major systems pragmatically while keeping the architecture extensible
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to ensure the IQ Platform powers real-world agent workflows at scale
Skills
- AI fluency—a working understanding of core AI concepts (LLMs, agents, copilots, tokens, credits, context windows, RAG, data governance, etc.), applied in the context of building and leading an AI platform engineering team
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with demonstrated people leadership and technical architecture ownership
- Proven leadership at a company focused on business impact—you develop engineers, build healthy teams, and connect technical work to business outcomes
- Flexibility to ship major systems in a startup environment—scrappy, velocity-oriented, and comfortable with ambiguity and evolving requirements
- Ability to work effectively with Staff-level engineers as a true thinking partner on hard architectural and systems-design problems
- Strong systems design and architecture skills, with experience building production platforms or infrastructure at scale
- Hands-on experience with LLMs and applied LLM systems
- RAG expertise, including retrieval pipelines, embedding strategies, and evaluation
- Familiarity with LLM frameworks such as LangChain
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision coverage beginning on the first day for employees and their families
- 401(k) program with up to 2% company matching
- Equity grant participation
- Flexible PTO with a FlexExperience budget ($900 annually) to help you make the most of your time away from work
- FlexWellness program ($1,800 annually) to help support your personal health goals
- Generous budget for home office set up
- $1,500 annual learning and development stipend
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
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