Manager, Quality Engineering & AI Validation

Please note: This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Company Overview

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equitys value creation partner we sit at the heart of PEwhere sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data technology and AI we help clients drive valuesupporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation.

If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow come solve complex issues alongside 1600 finance & technology experts in a supportive collaborative environment.

Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe we are a high-growth entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark.

Manager Quality Engineering and AI Validation

The Manager of Quality Engineering and AI Validation leads Accordions centralized Quality Engineering and AI Validation function across software delivery pods. This impactful role will be critical in owning the quality operating model release-readiness standards test strategy AI validation framework and quality metrics used to support both conventional software and AI-enabled solutions. Above all this leader will ensure quality is designed into delivery from the start not inspected in at the end.

This position will ideally be based in one of our US offices and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week (also eligible for remote candidates).

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

What Youll Do:

Quality Strategy & Governance

• Define the firm-wide quality strategy release gates and validation standards across development pods
• Establish a risk-based quality model for traditional software and AI-enabled workflows
• Define when pod-level validation is sufficient and when independent QA validation is required

AI Validation Leadership

• Build and operationalize the QA approach for AI-led products including benchmark datasets scoring rubrics regression comparisons and grounded-output validation
• Establish testing expectations for instruction adherence consistency business correctness control compliance and hallucination risk
• Partner with Engineering and Product leaders on quality implications of prompt model workflow and tooling changes

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop quality engineers AI quality analysts and domain-oriented QA resources
• Improve the maturity of automation evaluation routines test evidence standards and release discipline
• Create a scalable central model that supports pods without becoming a bottleneck

Finance & Risk Alignment

• Partner with Finance and practice SMEs to ensure solutions are validated against real business use materiality and control expectations
• Ensure high-risk workflows receive the right level of domain review before production release

Production Quality

• Define the framework for production quality monitoring including escaped defects output-quality degradation reviewer overrides and control failures
• Create visibility into quality trends readiness and recurring failure patterns for Engineering and leadership

You Have:

• 8 years of QA software testing or quality engineering experience including team leadership you are a builder of quality systems and operating models
• Deep fluency in both engineering quality and business impact
• Experience building test strategy release-readiness processes and automation programs in modern software environments
• Experience supporting AI-enabled applications workflow automation data products or decision-support systems
• Strong understanding of functional integration regression API and data validation approaches
• Ability to translate business-critical finance workflows into quality controls and release criteria
• Comfortability asking tough questions about readiness risk and evidence
• Strong communication skills and credibility with Engineering Product and business stakeholders you are structured pragmatic and highly credible
• Consistent focus on trust traceability and scalable execution
• Bachelors degree preferred

You Are:

• Excited to be part of a growing team with a focus on driving future growth
• Passionate about delivering exceptional client service
• Knowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies particularly within the office of the CFO
• Willing to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture
• Comfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing)
• A self-starter with a strong work ethic
• Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid flat organization
• Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions and raise issues to senior team members when necessary
• A team player able to work with team members across all levels
• Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work
• A leader of others; you lead by example

The annual salary for this role ranges from: $165000 to $205000 benefits bonus.

Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate including but not limited to geographic location skill set years and depth of experience education certifications cost of labor and internal equity.

Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion marital status age national origin ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition pregnancy genetic information gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran status or any other status protected under federal state or local law.

Please note that as per Accordion policy we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency person or entity.

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