Senior Engineering Manager, EvolutionIQ
AI Labs, Insurtech
Offers equity plan
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AI for insurance carriers
Job no longer available
AI for insurance carriers
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Offers equity plan
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform the insurance industry through a partnership between AI and human experts, ultimately making it more fair and affordable for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of engineering experience with at least 4+ years in engineering management or technical program management roles
- Proven ability to lead engineering teams through complex projects with multiple dependencies
- Strong project and program management skills; comfortable with Agile/Scrum/Kanban frameworks
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities in ambiguous situations
- Strong technical foundation (experience in Python, Data pipelines, cloud platforms)
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
- Passion for building great teams and delivering impactful software
What the job involves
- The Senior Engineering Manager for AI Labs will be responsible for driving the day-to-day execution of projects and delivery across our engineering organization which will make a significant impact
- You will lead teams to consistently ship high-quality solutions on time, while upholding technical excellence and operational rigor. By translating strategic objectives into clear, actionable plans, you will ensure strong execution and outcomes, creating space for leadership to focus on broader organizational goals
- This role blends technical leadership, program execution, and people management. You will own the processes, rhythms, and accountability structures that keep engineering delivery predictable and aligned, while fostering a culture of clarity, urgency, and continuous improvement. Your leadership will be instrumental in ensuring that our teams not only deliver, but deliver with impact
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers through mentorship, feedback, and career development
- Provide technical guidance and ensure architectural and code quality standards are met
- Support design and code reviews, ensuring engineering best practices are followed
- Partner with product management and design to refine requirements and translate them into actionable engineering plans
- Drive operational excellence: monitoring system health, ensuring reliability, and managing technical debt
- Own the end-to-end execution of engineering projects, from planning to delivery
- Establish and enforce repeatable processes for sprint planning, tracking, and reporting
- Anticipate risks and proactively resolve blockers to keep projects on track
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to manage dependencies and ensure alignment
- Track and report on delivery metrics (velocity, quality, timelines)
- Manage escalations and ensure issues are addressed with urgency and ownership
- Lead the creation, iteration, and communication of team OKRs to ensure focus on outcomes, not just outputs
- Inspire a high-performing team culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Communicate effectively across leadership, peers, and teams — translating strategy into execution
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders (Product, Design, QA, Client Success, etc.) to ensure smooth delivery
- Balance team workload, priorities, and individual growth to avoid burnout while driving results
- What Success Looks Like:
- Engineering teams are delivering consistently, with predictable timelines and high-quality output
- Dependencies and risks are surfaced early and resolved quickly
- Teams feel supported, engaged, and clear on priorities
- The leadership team has the space to focus on strategy while trusting execution is in strong hands
Our take
EvolutionIQ is a data-driven claim guidance platform for insurance providers. Its products combine structured and unstructured claim data with external third-party data to provide powerful claim guidance, aiming to modernise the claims operations process.
The company's offering is certainly an attractive one for businesses handling large volumes of these claims - the solutions aim to help insurance providers detect and prevent fraud without impacting their productivity and customer experience. Historically, the insurance industry has had access to vast amounts of data without optimising its use. EvolutionIQ's machine learning algorithms harness the learnings from every data point, enabling much more well-informed, actionable insights.
In 2024, CCC Intelligent Solutions acquired EvolutionIQ, which will continue to operate as a standalone company. Following a successful VC funding round, it reached a valuation of over $200 million and is now focused on further product development and international expansion. Off the back of this, it hopes to capture a larger slice of this $10 billion market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
111% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2024
$20.2m
LATE VC
Jun 2023
$10.3m
LATE VC
Total funding: $60.4m
Company benefits
- Premium Medical Insurance Plan – Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical insurance
- 401K with employer matching
- Dental Coverage – Principal Financial
- Life insurance / ACDC coverage – Reliance Standard
- Vision – Reliance Standard
- Short Term and Long Term Disability – Unum
- Employee stock option plan
- $500 to get you started setting up your home office and $200 every year for upgrades after that
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Saltzman
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Studied Engineering and Economics at Dartmouth, and obtained an MBA from Stanford. Co-founded Roomie Rentals while still a student, and then joined Bridgewater Associates as an Investment Associate, prior to co-founding EvolutionIQ in 2019.
Jonathan Lewin
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Studied History at Harvard. Jonathan co-founded eMeta and held senior leadership roles within corporate development and commerce at a range of companies, prior to co-founding EvolutionIQ in 2019.
Tomas Vykruta
(Co-Founder & President)Previously Developer Expert and Staff Engineer at Google and was a Flight Instructor at Blackwings Aviation.
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