Engineering Manager - Product Engineering

About the role

As an Engineering Manager at Parloa, you will be entrusted with building and leading a high-talent, high-performance team of engineers, ensuring the team delivers enterprise-grade, resilient, and innovative AI solutions that customers love. You are both a builder and a leader — you dive deep into technical challenges, but your true leverage comes from how you develop engineers, scale teams, and drive alignment with Parloa's strategic goals.

What you'll do

• Build and scale world-class teams: Hire, mentor, and elevate exceptional engineers. Create a culture of ownership, bias for action, and continuous improvement.
• Drive outcomes, not just output: Ensure every project directly contributes to Parloa's strategic goals and delivers measurable customer value.
• Raise the technical bar: Partner with Staff and Principal Engineers to drive architectural excellence, reliability, and pragmatic perfectionism.
• Foster fearless culture: Enable fast, decentralized decision-making, encourage experimentation, and build trust by supporting your team in both successes and failures.
• Lead with alignment and clarity: Translate company strategy into clear objectives and measurable outcomes for your team.
• Ensure operational excellence: Instill high standards in security, availability, quality, and performance, making resilience and scale-by-design the default.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with Product, Design, and Business leaders to ensure technical execution and product vision are tightly aligned.

What you'll need

• 8–12+ years in software engineering, 3–5+ years in people leadership, with a track record of delivering complex, enterprise-grade systems at scale.
• Proven ability to attract, develop, and retain world-class engineers, raising the bar with every hire.
• A strategic operator who can both set vision and dive deep into technical or operational details when needed.
• Fearless and pragmatic: you balance ambition with execution, turning bold visions into reality through iteration and disciplined delivery.
• Skilled in scaling organizations: you know how to build systems, not bureaucracy, to ensure sustainable speed and impact.