Engineering Manager, Product

The Role:

Ambience is hiring a Technical Lead Manager of Product Engineering to lead and scale our core engineering teams as we build the category-defining AI platform for healthcare. You’ll partner closely with product, design, and clinical teams to translate ambitious ideas into production-ready systems that are scalable, maintainable, and loved by end users.

This role is responsible for growing the team from 5 to 10+ engineers, building high-functioning pods around product domains, and delivering features that have a direct impact on clinician efficiency and patient outcomes. You’ll shape org design, culture, and process at a critical moment in Ambience’s growth, reporting directly to the Head of Engineering.

Required - Willing to work 3 days/week from the San Francisco office.

What You’ll Do:

• Build the Team: Help grow and shape a high-performing engineering group by hiring, onboarding, and developing strong ICs. Partner closely with recruiting and tap into your own network to attract and close exceptional talent.

• Design for Speed and Autonomy: Architect the engineering team for high ownership and product velocity. Set clear team charters, rituals, and scopes of responsibility.

• Drive Product Impact: Ship major customer-facing initiatives that expand Ambience’s enterprise footprint, while raising the bar on quality and performance.

• Coach and Grow Managers: Mentor EMs or TLs, create pathways for career growth, and promote a culture of feedback, execution, and high agency.

• Set Engineering Standards: Lead on architecture, code quality, release reliability, and data integrity. Establish best practices and ensure consistency across pods.

• Partner Cross-functionally: Collaborate deeply with PM, Design, and Clinical SMEs to ensure strong planning, discovery, and delivery practices across the product lifecycle.

• Lead Through Ambiguity: Translate high-level business goals into actionable plans, unblocking teams and delivering results in fast-moving and uncertain environments.

Who You Are:

• Experienced hiring manager; has personally hired 7+ engineers, and built teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments

• Hands-on Leader: You bring 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineers

• Technically Credible: You’ve built and scaled distributed systems, shipped backend and full-stack features in SaaS environments, and can go deep on technical decisions when needed.

• Product-Oriented: You know how to collaborate with PM and Design, think in terms of user outcomes, and ensure your team is always building the right thing.

• Execution-Focused: You take pride in delivering on ambitious goals. You know how to align a team, debug process issues, and accelerate throughput.

• Culture Shaper: You build inclusive teams with strong feedback and trust cultures. You lead with empathy and set a high bar for engineering maturity and ownership.

• Mission-Aligned: You’re excited by our vision to improve healthcare through AI and motivated by the opportunity to build a platform that makes a real-world impact.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in enterprise SaaS or healthtech

• Prior experience at high-growth Series B–D startups

• A personal network of Bay Area engineers or managers

• History of technical thought leadership (talks, blogs, open-source)

• Work on mission-critical AI technology that directly improves clinicians’ day-to-day lives and health system financial health across some of the most complex, high-stakes workflows in the world.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents

• Parental leave to support your family needs