Title: Engineering Manager – AI Agents – London

Location: London (On-Site)

Salary: £180,000–£240,000 + Equity

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About the Company

A high-growth AI company building a conversational agent platform used by major enterprises to power customer interactions across voice, chat, email, and messaging channels.

Their technology enables large consumer brands to deploy AI agents that handle complex, high-volume support workflows with speed and accuracy. The company is well-funded, scaling rapidly, and expanding its international presence with a new London office.

The culture is execution-focused, ambitious, and product-driven, with strong expectations around ownership and velocity.

The Opportunity

This is a founding engineering leadership role for the London office.

You will build and lead a team responsible for designing and deploying AI agents used by enterprise customers across multiple industries. The role combines people leadership, technical depth, and direct customer collaboration.

You’ll work closely with product and research to evolve the underlying agent platform while ensuring production systems are reliable, scalable, and high-performing.

What You’ll Do

• Build and lead a high-performing engineering team in London.
• Design and ship AI agents capable of handling complex, real-world customer interactions.
• Partner directly with enterprise customers to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Collaborate with product, design, and research to shape platform evolution.
• Drive technical quality across architecture, performance, and reliability.
• Contribute to broader engineering strategy as the company scales internationally.

What They’re Looking For

• 2+ years of engineering management experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
• Experience with asynchronous systems and debugging complex production issues.
• Comfort operating in high-growth, high-ownership environments.
• Strong technical judgement combined with people leadership capability.

Nice to have:

• Experience with multimodal or large language models.
• Background building production AI systems at scale.

Why It’s Compelling

• Foundational leadership role in a newly opened London office.
• Direct impact on AI systems used by major global brands.
• High ownership and autonomy.
• Competitive compensation (£180k–£240k + equity).
• In-office culture focused on speed and collaboration.

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