Engineering Manager, AI Engineering

ENGINEERING MANAGER -AI About Us Procurify is the Intelligent Spend Management company. We're on a mission to give all organizations unprecedented visibility and control over their business spend. Our industry-leading platform unifies data across procurement, AP, and expenses, helping finance and operations teams capture, analyze, and optimize every dollar of spend. We're a remote-first company backed by leading investors, helping mid-market organizations modernize how they manage spend. THE OPPORTUNITY We're hiring an Engineering Manager, AI Engineering to lead our AI Engineering team. This team is responsible for building and operating the intelligence layer that powers Procurify's platform, leveraging Generative AI, Machine Learning, LLMs, and agentic systems to help customers automate workflows, uncover insights, and make more effective spending decisions. This is a player-coach leadership role. You'll lead a team of AI Engineers while remaining deeply involved in technical strategy, architecture, prototyping, and critical implementation decisions. You'll balance people leadership with hands-on technical contribution, helping shape both our AI platform and the next generation of AI-powered customer experiences. You'll work closely with Product, Design, Platform Engineering, Security, and Engineering leadership to define and execute Procurify's AI strategy while building a highly engaged, high-performing team. You value accountability, technical excellence, and know how to balance long-term vision with pragmatic execution. WHAT YOU'LL DO LEAD & MENTOR - Manage a team of AI Engineers, providing coaching for technical excellence, fostering individual career growth, and nurturing a high-performance culture built on trust, ownership, experimentation, and collaboration. LEAD THROUGH TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTION - Serve as a player-coach by actively participating in architecture reviews, technical design, prototyping, proof-of-concepts, and critical implementation efforts. Maintain technical credibility through active engagement with the team's work and technical direction. DRIVE AI PRODUCT DELIVERY - Lead your team to consistently deliver high-impact AI-powered products and platform capabilities. You'll define success metrics, track progress transparently, and proactively communicate with stakeholders to ensure alignment and business impact. SHAPE AI ARCHITECTURE & TECHNICAL VISION - Lead the technical strategy for AI Engineering by partnering with key stakeholders across Product, Platform, and Security to align our technical investments with business goals. By building foundational platforms rather, you will define the architectural standards and guardrails that empower our team to innovate at speed and scale agentic workflows, RAG systems, and LLM-powered features. Your focus includes: - LLM-powered applications - Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems - Agentic workflows and orchestration - Prompt and context engineering frameworks - AI evaluation systems - AI observability and monitoring - Responsible AI and governance practices BUILD PRODUCTION-GRADE AI SYSTEMS - Guide the design, development, deployment, and operation of AI services and infrastructure, including: - LLM and model integrations - Knowledge retrieval systems - AI orchestration platforms - Agent frameworks - Evaluation and testing frameworks - AI monitoring and feedback loops BALANCE INNOVATION & EXECUTION - Think strategically to balance experimentation, technical debt reduction, platform investments, and product delivery. Help the organization move quickly while maintaining engineering quality and operational excellence. GROW OUR ENGINEERING CULTURE - Work with Engineering leadership to evolve Procurify's engineering culture, championing technical excellence, responsible innovation, continuous learning, and disciplined execution. COLLABORATE BROADLY - Work closely with partners across the organization—including Security, Platform Engineering, Product, Design