Engineering Manager (Forecasting & Scheduling)

Join Assembled, a company dedicated to reimagining workforce management for the AI era. As an Engineering Manager on the Forecasting and Scheduling team, you will have the autonomy to set technical direction and make product decisions. You will work closely with various teams, including PM, design, ML engineers, and the GTM team, and directly with customers to ensure our product meets their needs. This role combines deep technical work with product development and offers the opportunity to shape how support organizations operate.

• Set technical direction and make product decisions for the Forecasting and Scheduling team, partnering closely with PM, design, ML engineers, and the GTM team.
• Lead a team of engineers in solving complex technical problems related to schedule generation, forecasting models, and constraint problems.
• Work directly with customers to ensure that the team's output effectively changes how they run their support organizations.
• A great team builder: You can internally to make the team feel excited about the future as well as being able to recruit high quality engineers to join. You should be able to pitch the vision of the team effectively and get people to buy into that vision
• Champions technical investment. You are the one beating the drum for paying down debt, modernizing infrastructure, and raising the engineering bar. You also know when taking on debt is the right call to move fast, and can credibly tell those moments apart
• T-shaped leader. You usually working at a very broad level and understanding the high level picture of the team and how the team fits into company level goals, but can dive extremely deep at any given time when necessary
• Strong product instincts. You know what to build, not just how to build it. You can wear the PM hat in moments when the team needs it, and can push back on a roadmap when something doesn't feel right
• Nice to have: Background in operations research or an adjacent quantitative field. Optimization, queueing theory, simulation, applied math, or ML with a heavy optimization bent. You'll be making technical calls on territory where this background would be helpful
• Holds the bar high. You hold both yourself and the team accountable: ensuring we are delivering value to our customers quickly and effectively
• Thoughtful about AI as a force multiplier. You have a real point of view on where AI speeds the team up (codegen, prototyping, research synthesis, etc.) and where it just creates more cleanup later. You can deploy it in ways that compound, without opening the slop cannon
• We know great candidates don’t always meet every requirement listed in a job description. If the role excites you and you believe you can make an impact at Assembled, we encourage you to apply