Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vivun is a technology company that delivers AI solutions for sales teams. They are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a distributed engineering team, focusing on AI-led sales and ensuring high standards in team execution and outcomes.
Responsibilities
• Grow and build a high-performing, diverse team through recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and training
• Coach engineers on their day-to-day work and career aspirations, conduct regular 1:1s, and evaluate performance, setting actionable goals to push themselves, the team, and the company
• Collaborate closely with Product to shape goals, milestones, requirements, and sequencing, bringing engineering teams into alignment
• Provide strong technical leadership and set direction for our architecture and stack to ensure the team and systems perform well at scale
• Be accountable for team plans, deliverables, and execution
• Lead AI-native development practices: support rapid iteration with strong guardrails, enabling teams to ship, measure, and improve AI experiences continuously
• Drive quality and reliability for AI experiences by promoting robust evaluation, testing, monitoring, and feedback loops across real-world usage
• Foster a culture of empathy for users and hold a high bar for excellence to ensure teams deliver products that solve the most important problems and delight our users
• Foster an inclusive environment with a high degree of trust and transparency among team members and leadership
• Help team members build strong, meaningful relationships through virtual and in-person culture initiatives
Skills
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• 5+ years of experience managing and leading engineering teams
• Strong track record of delivering large-scale, resilient, and observable distributed systems and services
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Strong hands-on skills; can drill deep into system design or implementation
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience
• Experience working in high-growth startup environments
• Experience managing remote software engineering teams
• Experience building AI-powered products (LLMs, voice, agentic workflows, retrieval, evaluation frameworks, or human-in-the-loop systems)
• Familiarity with responsible AI practices (safety, privacy, data governance, and model risk mitigation)
Benefits
• Full health benefits
• Stock Options at a well-funded, pre-IPO company on a fast growth track
• Flexible work schedules and work from anywhere at a fully remote company
• Unlimited PTO with two weeks designated as “quiet period” each year
Company Overview
• Vivun offers an AI Sales Agent that automates tasks for Account Executives (AEs), allowing them to focus on higher-level strategies. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in Oakland, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.vivun.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
• Vivun has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.