Engineering Manager, AI Enablement

At PitchBook a Morningstar company we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate evolve and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. Were deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement energy and fun that reverberates throughout the company.

Our extensive learning programs and mentorship opportunities help us create a culture of curiosity that pushes us to always find new solutions and better ways of doing things. The combination of a rapidly evolving industry and our high ambitions means theres going to be some ambiguity along the way but we excel when we challenge ourselves. Were willing to take risks fail fast and do it all over again in the pursuit of excellence.

If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done PitchBook is the place for you.

About the Role:

As a member of the Product and Engineering team at PitchBook you will be part of a team of big thinkers innovators and problem solvers who strive to deepen the positive impact we have on our customers and our company every day. We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things. We thrive on customer empathy which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation.

We know that greatness is achieved through collaboration and diverse points of view so we work closely with partners around the globe. As a team we assume positive intent in each others words and actions value constructive discussions and foster a respectful working environment built on integrity growth and business value. We invest heavily in our people who are eager to learn and constantly improve. Join our team and grow with us!

As an Engineering Manager AI Enablement in the Technology & Engineering organization you will lead the team responsible for building and operating the core platforms that enable AI adoption across PitchBook. This role owns the foundational layers that make AI usable safe and scalable for product teams data scientists and the broader workforce including managed tool access (MMCP) shared context layers agent creation and governance and enterprise AI workflows. Your team acts as a force multiplier empowering experimentation capturing high-value wins and operationalizing them into reusable production-grade capabilities. This role is critical to PitchBooks transition into a genuinely AI-enabled organization.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Own and lead the AI Enablement roadmap including managed tool access context management agent creation and governance and workflow orchestration
• Partner closely with Engineering Product Data Science Security and Legal to balance innovation safety and scale
• Build and operate platforms that support: safe experimentation and prototyping replication and scaling of successful AI patterns and delivery of prescriptive production-grade AI solutions
• Ensure AI platforms provide consistent context auditability lineage and observability across users agents and workflows
• Enable teams to transition from ad-hoc experiments to managed reusable capabilities
• Establish standards best practices and golden paths for AI usage across the organization
• Serve as a force multiplier by removing roadblocks improving processes and enabling rapid iteration
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear narratives for executive product and business stakeholders
• Foster a culture of psychological safety experimentation ownership and continuous learning
• Ensure platforms meet high bars for reliability security compliance and operational excellence
• Support and model PitchBooks values through leadership and collaboration
• Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors
• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelors Masters or PhD in Computer Science Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 3 years of experience in an engineering leadership role managing distributed teams
• 6 years of experience building and operating platforms or infrastructure that support developers or data practitioners
• Strong experience enabling AI/ML systems in production including GenAI and LLM-based systems
• Experience with AI tooling orchestration or agent frameworks (e.g. LangChain custom agent systems workflow engines)
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS and/or GCP) including Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience designing secure governed access to data tools and services
• Experience with Python (Java a plus) and building APIs or platform services
• Strong systems-thinking skills: ability to design platforms that scale across teams and use cases
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both deeply technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working across multiple engineering and product teams is a plus
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future

Benefits Compensation at PitchBook:

Physical Health

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Additional medical wellness incentives
• STD LTD AD&D and life insurance

Emotional Health

• Paid sabbatical program after four years
• Paid family and paternity leave
• Annual educational stipend
• Ability to apply for tuition reimbursement
• CFA exam stipend
• Robust training programs on industry and soft skills
• Employee assistance program
• Generous allotment of vacation days sick days and volunteer days

Social Health

• Matching gifts program
• Employee resource groups
• Subsidized emergency childcare
• Dependent Care FSA
• Company-wide events
• Employee referral bonus program
• Quarterly team building events

Financial Health

• 401k match
• Shared ownership employee stock program
• Monthly transportation stipend

*Please be aware the above PitchBook benefit and perk offerings are subject to corresponding plan and policy documents and may change during the course of your employment.

Compensation

• Annual base salary: $250000-$300000
• Target annual bonus percentage: 15%

Working Conditions:

At the heart of our company is a belief in the power of in-person collaboration. Being together in the office fuels our creativity strengthens our connections and drives the innovation that sets us apart. Our culture is built on spontaneous momentsthose hallway conversations whiteboard brainstorms and shared celebrations in each of our global officesthat simply cant be replicated remotely. This role is expected to be in the office 5 days a week.

The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.

We are excited to get to know you and your background. Concerned that you might not meet every requirement We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for the role or other roles at PitchBook.

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