Head of AI Products (Santa Clara)

LeanData helps the world’s fastest-growing companies automate, simplify, and accelerate revenue.We are looking for a hands-on engineering manager to lead the team building LeanData’s AI Products: the AI and agent capabilities that power go-to-market for the world’s fastest-growing companies.You own the technical vision for our AI and agent platform, drive 0-to-1 from ambiguous go-to-market problems to production-ready features, and set the evaluation discipline and AI best practices the whole engineering team follows. You manage and grow a small, strong team of AI/ML and agent engineers, and stay technical enough to design and ship alongside them. This is a strategic, opinionated, and fast-moving role.This role reports to the SVP of Engineering and is based in our Santa Clara, CA office. You are required to be in office Mondays and Wednesdays each week. What you’ll be doingLead and grow the AI Products team: hire, coach, mentor, and raise the technical barSet our AI and agent best practices, and the evaluation and quality bar for non-deterministic AI and LLM systems, across the whole engineering teamOwn the technical vision for our AI and agent platform, and build the evaluation infrastructure and abstractions other LeanData teams use to ship AI featuresStay hands-on: design, review, and ship alongside your engineers (roughly half your time)Drive 0-to-1: turn ambiguous go-to-market problems into production-ready AI features, partnering with product, design, and data to shape the roadmapOwn the quality, reliability, and delivery of the team’s AI work, and drive the model and LLM upgrade pipeline, balancing quality, latency, and costRequirements4+ years building and shipping ML or AI/LLM systems in production, including 3+ years managing or leading engineersA track record of building and scaling AI-powered product capabilities 0-to-1, and of growing a small, strong engineering team while staying hands-onStrategic and opinionated: you turn ambiguous ideas into production-ready features and can defend sharp technical calls to product and engineering leadershipDepth in evaluation and quality measurement for non-deterministic AI/LLM systems, including model selection and the tradeoffs between quality, latency, and costStrong, current Python; you still write and review production codeApplied AI experience is essential, including building products on large language models and partnering with product, design, and data to shape an AI roadmapBonus points if you haveBuilt on or near Salesforce, data warehouses, or against another large, messy enterprise data sourceExperience with the modern eval/observability stack (Promptfoo, Braintrust, Langfuse) and durable execution (Inngest, Temporal)A founder, founding-engineer, or early-engineer background owning a product end to endCompensationThe salary for this role will be between $250,000 and $300,000 base, plus equity.Compensation Range: $250K - $300KLocationSanta ClaraEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeHybridDepartmentEngineeringCompensationTier 1$250K – $300KWe value providing opportunities for professional growth, and hence, we typically refrain from offering at the upper limit of the salary range. This approach allows for future development within the role, ensuring that compensation can be adjusted to reflect an individual's advancing skills and contributions to the team while maintaining internal fairness.