Manager, AI Product Engineering

The Manager of AI Product Engineering leads a team of AI Product Engineers responsible for delivering high quality, secure, and scalable AI enabled product experiences. Reporting to the Director of AI Product Engineering, this role is accountable for day to day execution, technical dependency management, delivery predictability, and consistency of technical patterns across a defined product or platform area.

The Manager operates at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Architecture, Design, and Security, ensuring that AI Product Engineers effectively translate product intent into executable, maintainable solutions. This role functions to oversee and direct AI assisted product development—actively monitoring incoming work, sequencing priorities, resolving dependencies, identifying risk, and ensuring teams move quickly without compromising quality, security, or user experience.

Working in tight partnership with Product Managers and Backend Engineering counterparts, the Manager ensures that AI Product Engineering work is well planned, well integrated, and well governed, while continuously improving execution efficiency and delivery outcomes.

Starting base pay for this role is between $145,000 and $185,000. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as transferable skills, work experience, business needs, training, location, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role will be eligible for a bonus as well as competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, wellness reimbursement, life insurance, and a 401(k) with company match. We offer vacation and sick leave benefits (under a flexible time off policy in most states).

Execution & Delivery Leadership

• Owns day-to-day delivery execution for one or more AI-enabled product areas, ensuring commitments are met with high quality and predictability.
• Actively monitors all incoming work to identify conflicts, sequencing challenges, technical dependencies, and delivery risks early.
• Ensures consistent application of approved technical patterns, tooling, and guardrails across the team’s deliverables.
• Maintains visibility into delivery status, risks, and dependencies; escalate issues to the Director with clear options and recommendations.
• Balances speed and quality, ensuring delivery velocity does not compromise maintainability, security, or compliance.
• Proactively identifies delivery risks related to dependencies, platform maturity, tooling limitations, or unclear requirements.
• Drives continuous improvement in delivery practices, tooling usage, and execution efficiency.
• Reinforces a culture where teams proactively improve requirement quality and execution readiness to enable faster delivery cycles.

Strategic Leadership

• Partners closely with Product and Backend Engineering to ensure implementations align with reference architectures, platform constraints, and long-term maintainability goals.
• Ensures AI Product Engineers adhere to secure-by-design principles, including authentication/authorization patterns, secrets management, RBAC, data privacy, and auditability.
• Champions consistency of use of the design system and UX patterns, integration approaches, and AI-assisted assembly techniques.
• Identifies and resolves recurring technical friction or delivery bottlenecks and drive improvements in patterns, tooling, or processes.
• Works hand in hand with Product Managers to clarify requirements, strengthen execution readiness, and sequence work effectively.
• Ensures AI Product Engineers enrich and supplement requirements, adding technical insight, UX considerations, integration patterns, and feasibility constraints.
• Partners closely with Engineering, Security, DevOps, and QA to ensure smooth handoffs, shared ownership, and adherence to SDLC processes.
• Services as the primary point of coordination between AI Product Engineers and Backend Engineering teams for assigned initiatives.

People Leadership

• Directly manages, coaches, and develops AI Product Engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and technical excellence
• Sets clear expectations around delivery quality, ownership, technical rigor, and cross-functional partnership.
• Leads all performance management and compensation-related activities, including annual reviews.
• Supports career development through regular feedback, skills coaching, and growth planning aligned with established skill frameworks.
• Ensures team members understand and apply security, compliance, and governance requirements relevant to AI-assisted development
• Models and reinforce Origami Risk’s values: Prioritize Clients’ Trust and Success, Innovate with an Entrepreneurial Spirit, Collaborate and Win as a Team.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in product-adjacent engineering, technical solutions, platform configuration, or AI-assisted development roles.
• Experience leading or managing technical teams preferred.
• Strong systems thinking skills, including APIs, integration patterns, data flows, and platform constraints.
• Hands-on experience with low/no-code platforms or AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Solid product mindset with the ability to coach engineers on user-centric design and execution.
• Experience working within secure, regulated environments and understanding secure SDLC practices.
• Strong communication, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Medical and Dental coverage available for employees, dependents, domestic partners, and spouses
• Paid Time Off – Flexible options plus 10 paid company holidays where available**
• All full-time positions are hybrid, with many eligible to be completely remote
• Fully Paid by Origami Risk – Vision insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability Insurance, and Basic Life Insurance
• Generous family leave options—including adoption and foster care placements
• Pre-Tax Savings Accounts – Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, Commuter Benefits, Dependent Care Savings Account
• Retirement Savings – 401(k) with company match up to 4%
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – Confidential & Free support offered to colleagues facing personal or work-related complications
• Education Assistance Program – to help colleagues pursue industry/role-specific certifications
• Wellness Benefits – reimbursement program to invest in healthy habits as well as support better colleague productivity and stress management
• Additional coverages available – Pet Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, and Voluntary Life & AD&D coverage

Origami Risk delivers single-platform SaaS solutions that help organizations best navigate the complexities of risk, insurance, compliance, and safety management.

Founded by industry veterans who recognized the need for risk management technology that was more configurable, intuitive, and scalable, Origami continues to add to its innovative product offerings for managing both insurable and uninsurable risk; facilitating compliance; improving safety; and helping insurers, MGAs, TPAs, and brokers provide enhanced services that drive results.

A singular focus on client success underlies Origami’s approach to developing, implementing, and supporting our award-winning software solutions. 

Origami Risk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We thrive and benefit from diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employees. We do not discriminate against any individual based upon race, religion, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, color, sex, national origin, age, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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