Conversational AI Engineering Manager

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Conversational AI Engineering Manager leading engineers and delivery of Cognigy and Amazon Lex + Amazon Q solutions. Driving bot quality, reliability, stakeholder collaboration, and team growth at an omnichannel solutions company.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage and coach engineers across levels L1–L5
  • Lead onboarding, performance management, career development, and promotion readiness
  • Build a high-trust feedback culture with strong engineering fundamentals, including code review, testing, documentation, and incident learning
  • Recruit and hire across multiple levels and scale the team responsibly
  • Own delivery outcomes across concurrent projects, including planning, prioritization, scope control, and risk management
  • Collaborate with Product, clients, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical plans and measurable milestones
  • Establish and improve agile operating rhythms, including sprint/kanban, roadmapping, retrospectives, and metrics
  • Enforce CI/CD workflows
  • Lead implementation and enhancement of conversational AI solutions using Cognigy and/or Amazon Lex + Amazon Q
  • Oversee chat and voice bots, routing, integrations, and knowledge-driven experiences
  • Ensure best practices for conversational design, NLU/LLM prompt and tooling hygiene, and safe fallbacks or hand-offs to live agents
  • Improve bot quality through evaluation, testing, monitoring, and iterative optimization
  • Define and enforce standards for reliability, observability, and on-call readiness
  • Drive incident response and root-cause reviews
  • Partner with security and compliance stakeholders on data handling, retention, and access controls for customer data integrations

Requirements:

  • Experience managing and coaching engineers across levels L1–L5
  • Experience with onboarding, performance management, career development, and promotion readiness
  • Experience recruiting and hiring across multiple levels
  • Experience owning delivery outcomes, including planning, prioritization, scope control, and risk management
  • Strong client interaction and stakeholder management experience
  • Hands-on experience creating and reviewing BRD, PRD, FRD, SOW, and NFRD
  • Experience documenting AI solutions, including AI-specific BRDs/PRDs, use cases, workflows, and integrations
  • Experience establishing agile operating rhythms, including sprint/kanban, roadmapping, retrospectives, and metrics
  • Experience enforcing CI/CD workflows, both with and without repositories
  • Experience leading conversational AI solutions built on Cognigy and/or Amazon Lex + Amazon Q
  • Knowledge of conversational design implementation, NLU/LLM prompt/tooling hygiene, and safe fallbacks/hand-offs to live agents
  • Experience with bot evaluation, testing strategies, monitoring, and iterative optimization
  • Experience defining standards for reliability, observability, and on-call readiness, including SLOs, logging, dashboards, and alerts
  • Experience driving incident response and root-cause reviews
  • Experience working with security/compliance stakeholders on data handling, retention, and access controls
  • Experience integrating customer data sources

Benefits:

  • Competitive suite of benefits
  • Lucrative compensation program
  • Medical benefits
  • Dental benefits
  • Vision benefits
  • Opportunity for high-potential career growth with a fast-growing company