Head of Product Engineering

The role

You will lead engineering teams behind core products including device connection apps, AI transcription, and shared workspaces. You will drive engineering strategy, mentor engineering leads across the US and Asia, and own engineering velocity and quality.

What you will do

• Define and drive the engineering strategy for core products
• Lead, mentor and grow engineering leads across the US and Asia
• Own engineering velocity and quality across product teams
• Partner with Product, Design, Platform and Infrastructure on roadmaps
• Establish clear end-to-end ownership for services and on-call rotations
• Build an operating model for teams that span time zones
• Drive AI-native engineering across every team
• Act as the Platform team's main internal customer
• Resolve technical disputes between teams quickly and in writing

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years leading managers of multi-team product engineering organizations (40+ engineers)
• Proven track record shipping consumer or prosumer products across mobile, web and desktop
• Demonstrated success leading distributed teams across the US and Asia
• Strong technical depth to review architectures and unblock complex projects
• Experience shipping LLM-powered features in production
• Track record of raising delivery velocity while keeping quality and team health high

Nice to have

• Hardware-connected or AI-heavy products

Benefits

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Access to best-in-class AI tools including Gemini and Claude Code
• Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and Plaud devices
• Annual company offsites
• Team events

About the company

Plaud is a San Francisco-based company building a real-world AI interface for professionals. It is a bootstrapped, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate.