Engineering Manager (Applications - AI)

Engineering Manager (Applications - AI)

NewsWhip is the leading provider of predictive media intelligence, tracking and predicting engagement with the world’s news stories each day. Our platform is used each day by journalists at hundreds of top tier publications, and communications professionals at all 10 of the top 10 global PR agencies, dozens of international brands, and NGOs, international organisations and not-for-profits. As an Irish company, our product and engineering functions are central to our business. This presents a great opportunity to directly input into what we build and how we build it. There is a direct link between your work, our customers and the continued success of NewsWhip.

We're seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead two multi-disciplinary feature teams delivering NewsWhip's ambitious AI roadmap. As a key member of our product delivery team, you'll work closely with Product and UX leaders to shape and execute our AI strategy while managing diverse engineering teams that bring innovative solutions to life.

Responsibilities: 

Product & Strategy Leadership

• Partner deeply with Product and UX leads as part of the core product delivery triad (Design, PM, Engineering) working together to explore opportunities
• Actively contribute to product strategy and roadmap planning, providing technical perspective and feasibility assessment
• Drive feature definition and scope through close collaboration with Product Management and UX Design
• Balance customer needs, technical constraints, and business goals to make informed product decisions
• Proactively identify and communicate emerging AI technology opportunities that align with business goals and customer needs, helping shape the product vision through technical innovation
• Facilitate discovery sessions and technical spikes to validate approaches and identify risks early

Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor two cross-functional engineering teams (~8/9 engineers) across Backend, Frontend, Data Platform, and DS/ML disciplines
• Foster a collaborative environment where Engineering, Product, and UX work seamlessly together
• Drive engineering excellence while ensuring alignment with product goals and timelines
• Manage team performance, career development, and growth
• Own team metrics, capacity planning, and resource allocation
• Ensure delivery plans, team structure, and engineering outputs consistently align with business objectives and product goals, maintaining focus on measurable customer and business impact

Requirements: 

• 5+ years of engineering experience with 2+ years in engineering management
• Strong track record of partnership with Product Management and UX teams
• Experience leading product discovery and solution design processes
• Proven ability to influence product strategy through technical leadership
• Strong technical background with experience in either Backend Development, Data Engineering, or Machine Learning
• Experience managing diverse technical teams and coordinating cross-functional initiatives
• Understanding of modern AI/ML technologies, cloud platforms, and software architecture
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience with agile methodologies and modern software development practices
• Proven ability to mentor and develop engineering talent

Technical expertise in several of:

• Large Language Models and their APIs
• Vector databases (ChromaDB, Pinecone, Weaviate, etc.)
• Embedding models and similarity search
• RAG architectures
• Prompt engineering and management
• AI evaluation and testing frameworks
• LLMOps tools and practices

Nice to have:

• Experience with AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.)
• Background in media analytics or content intelligence
• Knowledge of semantic search and content retrieval
• Experience with real-time AI systems
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
• Previous startup or high-growth company experience

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance 
• Bonus for individual and team performance
• Pension
• Great working environment - remote first or hybrid model 
• An opportunity to help define an entirely new industry category
• Excellent opportunity to grow in one of Dublin’s fastest growing home-grown companies

Our ethos:

We believe in maintaining a friendly work environment, a healthy work-life balance, and compensating our employees fairly for their input. You’ll be part of a team that believes in mutual support and education, and for a company where a work week isn’t just the gap between weekends, but an opportunity to do work that is impactful and innovative. We also love eating and socializing together, annual and seasonal company and team retreats, healthy and unhealthy snacks and other perks.