Vapi · 2 weeks ago
Product Engineering Manager
San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$235K/yr - $250K/yrVAPI is a rapidly growing company focused on transforming voice into the default interface for humanity. They are seeking a Product Engineering Manager to lead a product engineering team, enhance team performance, and ensure timely delivery of projects while fostering a high-quality engineering culture.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Developer PlatformMachine LearningSoftware
Responsibilities
Learn the Vapi platform, architecture, and codebase deeply enough to have real technical opinions
Build relationships with your team. Understand each engineer's strengths, growth areas, motivations, and blockers
Shadow the current workflow—standups, planning, code reviews, deploys. Identify what's working and what's slowing the team down
Partner with product and design to understand the roadmap and priorities
Own team health and delivery. Your team ships predictably, sustainably, and with quality
Establish engineering rituals that create clarity: sprint planning, retros, 1:1s, blameless postmortems
Start upgrading the team: identify gaps, open reqs, source candidates, raise the hiring bar
Remove at least one systemic blocker that's been killing velocity (process, tech debt, unclear ownership)
Your team is humming: engineers are growing, shipping weekly, and fire drills are rare
You've made at least one exceptional hire (or have strong candidates in pipeline)
Delivery is predictable. Product and leadership trust your team's estimates and commitments
You're raising the engineering bar at Vapi—through code review culture, mentorship, and setting the example for what great engineering leadership looks like
Qualification
Required
Experience in building high-performing engineering teams
Ability to hire, develop, and retain exceptional engineers
Deep understanding of technical architecture and codebases
Experience in establishing engineering rituals such as sprint planning, retrospectives, and 1:1s
Proven track record of delivering on ambitious roadmaps
Experience in removing systemic blockers that affect team velocity
Ability to build relationships and understand team dynamics
Preferred
Experience with Series B to F companies
Experience selling multi-million dollar deals to Fortune 500 companies
Experience in building your own startup
Benefits
Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans.
Team love: We love hanging out and do quarterly offsites.
Flexible time off: take what you need.
More: catered meals and transportation, gym & coaching stipends!
Company
Vapi
Vapi is a voice AI platform that allows developers to build, test and deploy voice agents for phone calls and customer support.
Founded in 2023
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$20.12MKey Investors
Bessemer Venture PartnersY Combinator
2024-12-11Series A· $20M
2021-03-23Pre Seed· $0.12M
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