About Slang AI Slang AI is redefining customer engagement through conversational AI. Our mission is to transform the restaurant industry with the ultimate voice AI solution for consistently outstanding guest experiences. Backed by Techstars.
About the role
You'll join Slang as an Engineering Manager leading one to two of our delivery pods, the cross-functional teams that build our voice AI for restaurants, from real-time phone agents to the integrations and tools operators use every day. You'll own the health and output of your teams: hiring, coaching, and growing engineers; running a delivery rhythm that ships predictably; and making sure what we build is reliable enough for a restaurant to trust with its phones on a Friday night. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- You will build a high-functioning team: every engineer has a concrete growth plan, gets regular actionable feedback, and underperformance is addressed early, directly, and fairly
- You will make your teams' delivery predictable: cycle commitments are realistic and met, risks surface early, and stakeholders are never surprised
- You will balance feature delivery with reliability, on-call health, and technical debt, and your teams will own the operational health (observability, on-call readiness) of the systems they build
- You will hire well: you'll run strong, calibrated loops, close great candidates, and onboard new engineers so they're contributing within their first cycles
- You will partner with Product to shape scope and sequencing, not just receive it, and help your engineers understand the business context behind the work
- You will create a healthy team culture across time zones, with rituals (1:1s, retros, planning) that keep a distributed team connected and psychologically safe
More about this role
You'll join Slang as an Engineering Manager leading one to two of our delivery pods, the cross-functional teams that build our voice AI for restaurants, from real-time phone agents to the integrations and tools operators use every day. You'll own the health and output of your teams: hiring, coaching, and growing engineers; running a delivery rhythm that ships predictably; and making sure what we build is reliable enough for a restaurant to trust with its phones on a Friday night. Your week will blend 1:1s and career conversations, cycle planning with your product partner, design reviews, unblocking cross-team dependencies, and time in the details of production when something needs your attention.
You'll manage a team of roughly five to eight engineers spanning backend, platform, and applied AI work, distributed across the US and Brazil. You'll partner closely with product managers, conversation designers, and customer-facing teams, and you'll work within the execution frameworks we've built (technical project planning templates, project lead responsibilities) while helping them get better over time. You don't need to write production code daily, but you'll review designs and code,...
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