Engineering Manager, Forward-Deployed Engineering

ABOUT GROWTHX AI At GrowthX, we’re building the modern growth engine for marketing teams. Since launching in 2024, we've grown from concept to eight-figure annual revenue. To date, we've raised a $12M Series A led by Madrona Venture Group and we partner with 60+ companies ranging from high-growth startups to industry leaders like Lovable, Webflow, Ramp, Superhuman, Strapi, Abnormal Security, and Augment Code. We’ve built something different: an operating system that unifies powerful AI workflows with forward-deployed experts to transform content into compounding organic growth. We’re building the growth infrastructure marketing teams wish they’d always had — the system that reliably turns context into strategy, strategy into execution, and execution into measurable growth. ABOUT THE ROLE AI is reshaping go-to-market. Not just content creation. The entire surface area: product experiences, developer tools, documentation, integrations, research systems. GrowthX runs a high-end AI product studio for this shift. We build AI agents, custom products, and advanced automations for B2B companies on top of Output.ai http://Output.ai, our open-source AI workflow framework. Think Palantir's forward-deployed model, but for GTM. Recent examples: - For Lovable: An AI agent that creates templates for their product - For Airbyte: An agent that integrates with new connectors and creates docs pages by sending pull requests - For Augment: An entire research site for discovering and cataloging MCPs This is AI + product development + GTM. We have a team of 5 today. We're growing to ~20. We need someone to lead this expansion. WHAT YOU'LL OWN - Team Leadership. Build a team of AI-native forward-deployed engineers and designers. Set technical standards. Run effective 1:1s, invest in each engineer's growth, and give direct feedback. Build a team that clients trust and engineers want to join. - Technical Direction. Define architecture patterns for AI agents and client products. Review code. Make build vs. buy decisions. Push the boundaries of what's possible with Output.ai http://Output.ai. - Client Delivery. Ensure the team ships excellent work. Scope technical feasibility early with the sales team. Jump in on complex projects. Solve the hard problems when they come up. - Platform Building. Turn client projects into reusable capabilities. An agent pattern built for one client becomes a template for the next. A custom integration becomes a module in Output.ai http://Output.ai. Each engagement should make the next one faster and better. The goal is compounding leverage. - Operations. Run prioritization cycles. Allocate capacity across client pods. Balance urgent client requests with system improvements. WHO YOU ARE - Technical leader who still codes. You can architect AI agents, debug production issues, and review PRs. You're hands-on when it matters. You're not looking for a role where you just manage people and attend meetings. - Product thinker. You don't just build what's asked. You understand the client's problem, propose solutions, and ship products that work. You think about UX, not just architecture. - Experienced people manager. You've built and led engineering teams before. You know how to hire well, give direct feedback, and terminate team members when needed. You've navigated the messy parts of team building. - Client-facing capable. You can sit in a strategy call, understand what the client actually needs, and translate that into a project. You're comfortable with ambiguity and client expectations. - AI-native. You've built with LLMs. You understand prompting, context windows, agent architectures, and the current state of what works and what doesn't. This isn't theoretical for you. - High bar on output quality. AI can generate a lot of code fast — that makes reviewing it more important, not less. You read what it produces, understand it, refactor it, and don't merge output you wouldn't defend in a review. You QA your own work manually before it reaches anyone else. - Pragmatic over perfect. You ship working solutions and iterate based on real usage. You don't over-engineer. You solve the problem in front of you. - Excellent communicator. Writing and verbal. You can explain technical decisions to non-technical people. You document well. You run effective meetings. WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU EXCEPTIONAL - Led forward-deployed or professional services engineering teams before - Built production AI agents or LLM systems - Shipped products end-to-end (not just features within a product) - Experience in developer tools, GTM tech, or B2B SaaS - Contributed to or maintained open-source projects - Agency or consulting background with high-touch client delivery HOW WE WORK Think First, Build Second. AI made building fast and cheap. Writing code is no longer the bottleneck — thinking is. Before you build anything, invest real time understanding the problem. Study t