# Engineering Manager at Slang

- Company: Slang
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://slang.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $211K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-02
- Apply by: 2026-12-17
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/slangai/jobs/a38370f2-e827-4878-a7aa-505fe67f5274?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/slang-engineering-manager/

## 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

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/slang-engineering-manager/