Engineering Manager

The posting, as Elicit wrote it

WHY WE’RE HIRING FOR THIS ROLE

Elicit is growing. We currently have 20 engineers and only two people managers. This role is crucially important to ensure that our world-class engineers are given the opportunity to do the best work of their career here.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to help us scale our team without sacrificing the speed, technical excellence, and ownership that epitomize how we build products.

This role is more of a coach than a player. It’s important you are sufficiently technically-engaged to steward wise architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and help unblock difficult technical problems. However, your primary impact will be through building and motivating a high-performing team rather than individual contributions in code.

You, your team, and your product counterpart will own outcomes, not just a roadmap. Roadmaps are hypotheses: when reality diverges, we expect you to notice, question, and change course.

WHAT YOU’LL OWN

• Build and grow a high-performing engineering team
• Directly manage a team of up to 8 software engineers.
• Coach engineers through technical growth, career development, and increasing ownership.
• Build a culture of high standards, rapid iteration, and thoughtful execution.
• Help identify, hire, onboard, and develop exceptional engineers.
• Ship ambitious and successful product features
• Partner closely with product, designers, and fellow engineers to prioritize tactical and strategic goals into an audacious roadmap.
• Own the execution of a significant portion of Elicit’s roadmap.
• Balance shipping quickly against building systems that remain maintainable as Elicit grows.
• Remove execution bottlenecks and ensure the team consistently delivers high-quality work.
• Raise our engineering bar
• Participate in architectural discussions and technical planning.
• Review code and provide thoughtful technical feedback.
• Help engineers make strong engineering tradeoffs around performance, reliability, scalability, and simplicity.
• Actively improve engineering processes, tooling, and team effectiveness.
• Multiply the impact of the team
• Develop engineers into increasingly independent technical leaders.
• Give actionable feedback through regular coaching and performance management.
• Foster a collaborative environment where engineers learn from one another and continuously improve.
• Guide the team towards wise use of coding agents: pushing for ambitious use while staying honest about what's actually saving time. Ensure that your team develops the skills to grow into this new way of working rather than being diminished by it.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE ROLE

We’re looking for someone who combines outstanding people leadership with excellent technical judgment.

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years directly managing software engi

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ong hiring instincts.

• Technical judgment.
• Product sense.

LOCATION AND TRAVEL

We have a great office in Oakland, CA, and we'd love to see you there if you're local. That said, we're just as happy for you to work remotely. We do get the whole team together for a quarterly retreat somewhere fun, because in-person time matters to us.

BENEFITS AND PERKS

In addition to working on important problems as part of a productive and positive team, we also offer great benefits (with some variation based on location):

• Flexible work environment: work from our office in Oakland or remotely with time zone overlap (between GMT and GMT-8), as long as you’re comfortable traveling for quarterly in-person offsites
• Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, generous coverage for the rest of your family (FSA/HSA, too)
• Flexible vacation policy, with a recommendation of 20 days / year and plenty of company holidays
• Every Elician receives a $200 monthly wellbeing stipend to spend on whatever supports your health and wellbeing.
• 401K with a 6% employer match
• A new Mac + $1,000 budget to set up your workstation or home office in your first year, then $500 every year thereafter
• $1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget, so you can freely experiment with new AI tools to incorporate into your workflow, take courses, purchase educational resources, or attend AI-focused conferences and events
• A team administrative assistant who can help you with personal and work tasks
• You can find more reasons to work with us in this thread https://twitter.com/stuhlmueller/status/1694059800408269091!

COMPENSATION

For all roles at Elicit, we use a data-backed compensation framework to keep salaries market-competitive, equitable, and simple to understand. For this role, we target starting ranges of:

• $250k -300k + equity

We offer above-market equity for all roles at Elicit, as well as employee-friendly equity terms.