Technical Lead Manager (Artificial Intelligence)

Join Ironclad, a leading company in AI-native contract review technology. As a Technical Lead Manager, you will lead the engineering team behind Jurist, our AI-assisted contract review product. You will set the technical vision and roadmap, drive backend and platform decisions, shape the Jurist UI, and manage and grow a team of engineers. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone passionate about building products at the intersection of legal workflows, applied AI, and end-user experience.

• Set the technical vision and roadmap for Jurist, leading architecture and execution for core experiences.
• Drive backend and platform decisions that support document understanding, AI orchestration, review state management.
• Manage and grow a team of strong engineers across frontend and backend, balancing speed, technical rigor, and product judgment.
• High agency and strong product instincts; you know when to go deep technically and when to simplify
• 2+ years of technical leadership or engineering management experience, including mentoring and growing high-performing teams
• 5+ years of experience architecting, building, and operating complex software systems in production
• A strong track record of shipping ambiguous, zero-to-one or one-to-scale products where product and technical direction evolved quickly
• Comfort working across application, platform, and infrastructure layers
• Hands-on fluency with modern applied AI systems, including LLM orchestration, retrieval patterns, prompt and workflow design, model evaluation, and production quality controls
• Experience building and owning user-facing products end-to-end, including both the UI layer and the backend systems that support it
• Deep backend and distributed systems experience, especially in systems that need to be reliable, observable, secure, and scalable
• Familiarity with modern web and cloud stacks. Our teams commonly work in TypeScript, React, Node.js, Docker/Kubernetes, and Google Cloud, though direct experience in our exact stack is not required
• Experience building user-facing AI products where accuracy, explainability, and trust materially affect adoption
• You think about the full user journey, from the moment a reviewer opens a contract to the moment it's signed
• You care deeply about building tools users love, not just systems that technically work
• You enjoy close collaboration with product managers, designers, researchers, and customer-facing teams to iterate quickly on new capabilities
• You can translate domain complexity into intuitive product behavior and clear engineering priorities