Senior Engineering Manager, Ambience Healthcare

• Experienced Org Builder: You’ve taken an engineering org from ~10 to 30+ engineers, hiring and onboarding exceptional ICs and managers in fast-paced environments
• Hands-on Leader: You bring 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing engineers and at least 2 years managing managers or TLs
• 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

Desirable

• Ambience is hiring a Senior 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 10 to 30+ 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 senior leadership and working in lockstep with our Head of Engineering and Co-Founders
• Scale the Org: Hire, retain, and level up a 30+ person org across full-stack and backend engineering. Partner with recruiting and leverage your personal network to 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 and 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