Senior Engineering Manager, Product

About Us:

Ambience Healthcare is the leading AI platform for documentation coding and clinical workflow built to reduce administrative burden and protect revenue integrity at the point of care. Trusted by top health systems across North America Ambiences platform is live across outpatient emergency and inpatient settings supporting more than 100 specialties with real-time coding-aware documentation. The platform integrates directly with Epic Oracle Cerner athenahealth and other major EHRs. Founded in 2020 by Mike Ng and Nikhil Buduma Ambience is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Oak HC/FT Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) OpenAI Startup Fund Kleiner Perkins and other leading investors.

Join us in the endeavor of accelerating the path to safe & useful clinical super intelligence by becoming part of our community of problem solvers technologists clinicians and innovators.

The Role

Ambience is hiring a Senior Manager of Product Engineering to lead and scale our core engineering teams as we build the category-defining AI platform for healthcare. Youll partner closely with product design and clinical teams to translate ambitious ideas into production-ready systems that are scalable maintainable and loved by end users.

This role is responsible for growing the team from 5 to 10 engineers building high-functioning pods around product domains and delivering features that have a direct impact on clinician efficiency and patient outcomes. Youll shape org design culture and process at a critical moment in Ambiences growth reporting directly to the Head of Engineering.

What Youll Do

• Build the Team: Help grow and shape a high-performing engineering group by hiring onboarding and developing strong ICs. Partner closely with recruiting and tap into your own network to attract and close exceptional talent.

• Design for Speed and Autonomy: Architect the engineering team for high ownership and product velocity. Set clear team charters rituals and scopes of responsibility.

• Drive Product Impact: Ship major customer-facing initiatives that expand Ambiences enterprise footprint while raising the bar on quality and performance.

• Coach and Grow Managers: Mentor EMs or TLs create pathways for career growth and promote a culture of feedback execution and high agency.

• Set Engineering Standards: Lead on architecture code quality release reliability and data integrity. Establish best practices and ensure consistency across pods.

• Partner Cross-functionally: Collaborate deeply with PM Design and Clinical SMEs to ensure strong planning discovery and delivery practices across the product lifecycle.

• Lead Through Ambiguity: Translate high-level business goals into actionable plans unblocking teams and delivering results in fast-moving and uncertain environments.

Who You Are

• Experienced hiring manager; has personally hired 7 engineers and built teams in fast-paced high-growth environments

• Hands-on Leader: You bring 8 years of software engineering experience including 3 years managing engineers

• Technically Credible: Youve built and scaled distributed systems shipped backend and full-stack features in SaaS environments and can go deep on technical decisions when needed.

• Product-Oriented: You know how to collaborate with PM and Design think in terms of user outcomes and ensure your team is always building the right thing.

• Execution-Focused: You take pride in delivering on ambitious goals. You know how to align a team debug process issues and accelerate throughput.

• Culture Shaper: You build inclusive teams with strong feedback and trust cultures. You lead with empathy and set a high bar for engineering maturity and ownership.

• Mission-Aligned: Youre excited by our vision to improve healthcare through AI and motivated by the opportunity to build a platform that makes a real-world impact.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in enterprise SaaS or healthtech

• Prior experience at high-growth Series BD startups

• A personal network of Bay Area engineers or managers

• History of technical thought leadership (talks blogs open-source)

Pay Transparency

We offer a base compensation range of approximately $265000$325000 per year exclusive of equity. This intentionally broad range provides flexibility for candidates to tailor their cash and equity mix based on individual preferences. Our compensation philosophy prioritizes meaningful equity grants enabling team members to share directly in the impact they help create. If your expectations fall outside of this range we still encourage you to applyour approach to compensation considers a range of factors to ensure alignment with each candidates unique needs and preferences.

Being at Ambience:

• An opportunity to work with cutting edge AI technology on a product that dramatically improves the quality of life for healthcare providers and the quality of care they can provide to their patients

• Dedicated budget for personal development including access to world class mentors advisors and an in-house executive coach

• Work alongside a world-class diverse team that is deeply mission aligned

• Ownership over your success and the ability to significantly impact the growth of our company

• Competitive salary and equity compensation with benefits including health dental and vision coverage quarterly retreats unlimited PTO and a 401(k) plan

Ambience is committed to supporting every candidates ability to fully participate in our hiring process. If you need any accommodations during your application or interviews please reach out to our Recruiting team at . Well handle your request confidentially and work with you to ensure an accessible and equitable experience for all candidates.

Required Experience:

Manager