Hybrid Senior Manager, Engineering – AI Agents

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About the role

  • Senior Manager leading development of Five9's AI Agent software platform for customer support. Building a high-performing engineering team for real-time AI-powered systems.

Responsibilities

  • Hire, onboard, and grow a high-performing engineering team of 4-8 engineers in the United States
  • Provide coaching, mentorship, and career development for engineers
  • Establish clear ownership, accountability, and engineering rigor
  • Conduct performance management, feedback, and growth planning
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and operational excellence
  • Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders
  • Lead planning and enable strong execution of engineering initiatives and product roadmap
  • Ensure projects are delivered predictably and with high quality
  • Focus on customer success, ensuring quality AI agent experiences with low latency and high accuracy
  • Break down large initiatives into achievable milestones
  • Partner with Product Management to prioritize work and manage trade-offs
  • Collaborate with Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) teams on AI agent implementations
  • Drive continuous improvement in development processes and team productivity
  • Perform code reviews, guide software architecture and technical decisions
  • Review technical designs and ensure sound engineering practices
  • Help teams make pragmatic technology decisions balancing innovation and reliability
  • Drive the team to manage customer expectations of uptime and performance by defining and reviewing SLO/SLIs, developing metrics to measure as such and maintaining for all services
  • Ensure systems are scalable, maintainable, and production-ready
  • Promote strong service ownership and reliability culture
  • Ensure effective on-call practices and incident response processes
  • Drive root cause analysis and continuous reliability improvements
  • Partner with SRE teams to define SLIs, SLOs, and operational metrics
  • Handle customer escalations and issues related to AI Agent quality
  • Participate in on-call escalation rotations for provided services
  • Work closely with Product, UX, SRE, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) and Support teams
  • Align engineering execution with product strategy and customer needs
  • Communicate engineering progress, risks, and technical decisions clearly to stakeholders
  • Use modern AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, and represent “best in class” examples of how to effectively use it
  • Help the team adopt responsible and effective use of AI in software development workflows
  • Evaluate emerging developer AI tools and incorporate them where beneficial
  • Promote experimentation and learning around AI-enabled engineering practices.

Requirements

  • 3+ years experience leading or managing software engineering teams
  • 8+ years professional software development experience
  • Experience participating in hiring and helping grow engineering teams
  • 5+ years experience developing enterprise SaaS software
  • Strong background in distributed systems and modern software architectures
  • Experience or exposure to GenAI / LLM-based systems
  • Experience using or adopting AI-assisted software development tools
  • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar
  • Strong track record in hiring outstanding software development teams, through rigorous interviewing and vetting processes – either as the hiring manager or as part of interview panels.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision coverage, beginning on the first day of employment. Five9 covers 100% of the employee portion of the health, dental and vision coverage and shares a high portion of the dependent cost. We also offer Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance, and a 401k saving plan with employer matching.
  • Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
  • Generous employee stock purchase plan.
  • Paid Time Off, Company paid holidays, paid volunteer hours and 12 weeks paid parental leave.

Job title

Senior Manager, Engineering – AI Agents

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$133,000 - $391,500 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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