Tech Lead Manager, Admin Console

Were hiring a Tech Lead Manager of the Admin Console teamto lead one of the most important product surfaces at Glean: the admin experience that helps customers deploy govern and scale Glean across their organizations. This is a high-impact full-stack leadership role for an engineering leader who can guide architecture partner deeply with product and design and grow a small but strategically important team. The Admin Console is the control plane for enterprise activation admin confidence and scalable rollout. Admins use it to configure authentication data sources permissions governance search settings AI features and deployment health from a self-serve central hub. As Glean evolves from a search company into an AI platform this teams mission is evolving too: from managing data sources to helping admins manage the broader context layer of the system including actions live data governance and AI configuration.

You will:

• Lead and grow the Admin Console engineering team providing both people leadership and strong technical direction.
• Own architecture and execution for core admin-facing workflows including data source setup security configuration deployment management and feature rollout controls.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to simplify complex enterprise workflows and make the admin experience more intuitive and scalable.
• Help evolve the Admin Console from a system centered on crawlers and data setup into a broader control plane for enterprise context actions governance and AI capability management.
• Improve self-serve activation so admins can get their organizations up and running faster with less dependency on human support.
• Improve visibility into crawl health connector status indexing progress permissions and rollout readiness so admins can confidently understand what is happening in their deployment.
• Build systems and workflows that help admins safely scale Glean across users teams and capabilities over time through a coherent interface.
• Collaborate deeply with backend connector infra and security teams to deliver unified admin experiences that sit on top of platform and infrastructure layers.

About you:

• 8 years of software engineering experience building production distributed systems or cloudnative applications.
• 1 years of engineering management experience of a full stack team
• BS/BA in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong coding skills in at least one of: Python Go Java C Javascript.
• Productminded: you prioritize customer impact clear SLAs/SLOs and pragmatic iteration.
• Ownershipdriven with a positive proactive attitude; comfortable leading projects or learning from battletested engineers.
• You have experience building enterprise SaaS enterprise platform admin console or similarly configurable product experiences.
• Experience working on products where usability governance permissions and technical complexity all matter.
• Experience mentoring engineers with different technical strengths including frontend and backend team members.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and shape roadmap architecture and team execution in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and comfort partnering with product design security and platform teams.

Location:

• This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Mountain View or San Francisco office)

Compensation & Benefits:

The standard base salary range for this position is $250000 - $300000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location level job-related knowledge skills and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation equity and benefits.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation Medical Vision and Dental coverage generous time-off policy and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join youll receive a home office improvement stipend as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.

We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. Were committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender ethnicity sexual orientation religion civil or family status age disability or race.

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AI-First Mindset at Glean:

At Glean AI fluency is core to how we work and were committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process youll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about design and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools platforms or workflows you use today prior Glean experience isnt required.