Engineering Manager – Product

About the role

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to help build Cartesia’s Product Engineering team as a hands‑on technical and people leader. You’ll work alongside engineers building product surfaces such as Voices, Voice Agents, self‑serve growth, billing, and shared infrastructure while growing the team’s size, quality, and impact.

Key responsibilities

• Build alongside the team and contribute directly to important product and technical work, especially while the team is growing.
• Lead and develop product engineers through coaching, feedback, career development, and a high bar for performance and craft.
• Help grow the Product Engineering team by personally sourcing, interviewing, and closing exceptional engineers.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to shape what we build, make strong product and technical trade‑offs, and turn ambiguous goals into shipped experiences.
• Establish a predictable execution cadence without adding unnecessary process or losing the team’s speed.
• Raise the quality bar through hands‑on design and code review, strong technical judgment, and clear examples of excellent product engineering.
• Take ownership of neglected or cross‑cutting surfaces—including billing, files, and team rotations—and step into the work directly when needed.
• Help define how Product Engineering should evolve as the team grows, while remaining close to customers, the product, and the code.

Required profile

• 6+ years of product engineering experience, including experience leading or managing engineers at a company with a high product bar.
• Strong current technical ability and credibility to contribute to architecture, design reviews, debugging, and production‑quality code.
• Track record of coaching engineers, giving direct feedback, handling performance issues, and helping people expand their scope.
• Evidence of leading through context, judgment, and contribution—not only through reporting lines or process.
• Genuine excitement about voice AI and building the product layer on top of state‑of‑the‑art models.

What we offer

• Competitive base salary alongside an attractive equity package.
• Fully covered medical insurance, dental and vision for you and your family.
• Generous parental leave: 9 weeks paternity, 12 weeks maternity.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Monthly commuter allowance, flexible PTO, and daily meals and snacks.