Technical Lead Manager, AI

Ironclad
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 245,000 - 295,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Product instincts","High agency","Technical judgment","Collaboration"]

Lead the engineering team behind Jurist, an AI-native contract review product. Set the technical vision and roadmap across the full stack, drive architecture for redlining and AI-assisted workflows, and own end-to-end quality with evals, benchmarking, and instrumentation. Partner with Product, Design, Legal, Services, and go-to-market to translate user needs into scalable capabilities while managing, coaching, and scaling engineers.

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Technical Lead Manager, AI

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Job Summary

Lead the engineering team behind Jurist, an AI-native contract review product. Set the technical vision and roadmap across the full stack, drive architecture for redlining and AI-assisted workflows, and own end-to-end quality with evals, benchmarking, and instrumentation. Partner with Product, Design, Legal, Services, and go-to-market to translate user needs into scalable capabilities while managing, coaching, and scaling engineers.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set the technical vision and roadmap for Jurist across the full stack from review UI to backend AI outputs.
  • •Lead architecture and execution for core Jurist experiences: first-pass redlining, reasoning-backed suggestions, deviation summaries, obligation detection, and playbook workflows.
  • •Own end-to-end quality for Jurist, including evals, benchmarking, error analysis, regression prevention, and instrumentation to improve accuracy and trust.
  • •Drive backend and platform decisions for document understanding, AI orchestration, review state management, permissions, and enterprise-scale performance.
  • •Manage and grow a team of engineers across frontend and backend while establishing strong engineering practices for reviews, planning, experimentation, rollout safety, and operations.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 245,000 - 295,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionParental LeaveCompassionate LeavePaid LeaveRemote Work401kCommuter BenefitsWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years architecting, building, and operating complex software systems in production.
  • •2+ years technical leadership or engineering management experience, including mentoring and growing teams.
  • •Proven track record shipping zero-to-one or one-to-scale products with evolving product and technical direction.
  • •Experience building and owning user-facing products end-to-end (UI and backend systems).
  • •Hands-on fluency with modern applied AI systems (LLM orchestration, retrieval patterns, prompt/workflow design, evaluation, and production quality controls).
Experience:5+ years
Skills:LeadershipProduct instinctsHigh agencyTechnical judgmentCollaboration
Tech Stack:TypeScriptReactNode.jsDocker/KubernetesGoogle CloudLLM orchestrationRetrieval patternsPrompt designWorkflow designModel evaluationProduction quality controls

Company Brief

Ironclad
Provides a contract lifecycle management platform that automates contract creation, negotiation, approval, and analytics for legal and business teams. Integrates with enterprise systems to streamline contracting workflows and reduce legal bottlenecks.
Industry: LegalTech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2014
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