Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager | London | Hybrid | AI Product Company (start-up)
Salary: £100,000 - £120,000 + equity
Location: London (hybrid)
A growing AI product company is looking for an Engineering Manager to help scale a high performing product engineering organisation at a key stage of growth.
The business has already built strong commercial traction, works with a range of well known organisations, and is now at the point where engineering maturity, delivery confidence, and team scalability matter just as much as speed.
This is not a “sit in meetings and update Jira tickets” kind of management role. They are looking for someone who can bring structure without bureaucracy, help strong engineers perform at a higher level, and create clarity in an environment where priorities move quickly and product decisions happen fast.
The engineering team is still relatively small, which means this role has real influence over how the organisation evolves over the next few years. The right person will shape delivery processes, support pod leads and senior engineers, improve forecasting confidence, and help create an environment where engineers can do the best work of their careers.
What you’ll be doing:
- Managing and supporting product engineering teams delivering customer facing software
- Helping teams break down ambiguous product work into clear, achievable plans
- Improving delivery visibility, forecasting, prioritisation, and risk management
- Working closely with Product and Design to balance engineering quality with commercial goals
- Coaching engineers and emerging technical leaders across performance, growth, and communication
- Building lightweight operational systems that improve execution without slowing teams down
- Supporting hiring, onboarding, and team scaling as the business grows
What they’re looking for:
- Previous experience as an Engineering Manager with direct line management responsibility
- Experience leading delivery within product focused software teams
- Strong judgement around prioritisation, sequencing, estimation, and trade offs
- Ability to operate well in fast moving environments with ambiguity and changing priorities
- Strong communication skills and confidence handling difficult conversations when needed
- Enough technical depth to challenge assumptions and understand engineering decisions
- A pragmatic mindset around process, systems, and scaling teams
Tech stack:
- Python
- Vue.js
- AWS
Solid technical & product experience with a different stack is welcomed!
The company is at one of the more enjoyable stages for an Engineering Manager to join. There is already real product usage, commercial traction, and a strong engineering foundation, but still plenty of opportunity to influence how the organisation scales. You are not inheriting layers of process or decades of technical debt disguised as “best practice”!
It is a role for someone who enjoys helping ambitious engineers move faster, communicate better, and build stronger systems without turning the company into a corporate meeting simulator.
If you're interested and excited by making your mark on a growing organisation & working with a talented engineering team, then drop me a email at imogen@sr2rec.co.uk.
Engineering Manager | London | Hybrid | AI Product Company (start-up)