Justworks

Senior Manager, AI Enablement

New York, New York. Posted 13 days ago

The role

You will lead a new AI Enablement team to make AI-powered development and automation accessible across the company. You will own the core employee AI platform, develop AI agents, and establish engineering foundations for employee-built applications.

What you will do

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of senior engineers
  • Establish technical direction, priorities, and engineering practices
  • Remain hands-on with solution architecture, development, and debugging
  • Partner with stakeholders to deliver solutions with measurable impact
  • Oversee the administration and evolution of Claude and Cowork AI platforms
  • Guide the development of integrations, MCP servers, APIs, and automation
  • Lead the design, development, and maintenance of AI agents and applications
  • Help employees develop, deploy, and maintain applications created using AI-assisted tools
  • Establish reusable deployment patterns, templates, and CI/CD practices
  • Guide the development of office hours, workshops, and documentation

Required qualifications

  • Significant professional experience in software engineering, applied AI, or platform engineering
  • Minimum of 4 years managing engineers directly with responsibility for hiring, performance, and career development
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying AI-powered applications or agents using modern large language models
  • Strong understanding of agentic AI architectures, including tool calling, agent orchestration, APIs, and integrations
  • Proficiency in Python or another modern programming language
  • Experience building and operating production applications, including deployment, CI/CD, and monitoring
  • Strong understanding of software architecture, API design, authentication, authorization, and secure development practices
  • Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and modern application deployment patterns
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

  • Experience with Claude, Anthropic APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP), or comparable AI platforms
  • Experience with agent development frameworks such as LangGraph, Google ADK, or similar orchestration tools
  • Experience establishing internal developer platforms, engineering enablement programs, or self-service development capabilities
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools
  • Experience implementing evaluation frameworks, tracing, monitoring, and reliability controls for AI agents
  • Experience working in regulated environments
  • Experience building or scaling a new engineering team or technical function

Benefits

  • Welcoming and casual environment
  • Great benefits
  • Wellness program offerings
  • Company retreats

Before you apply

  • We may use artificial intelligence and other automated tools to process your personal information as part of the recruitment process

About the company

Justworks helps businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business by solving HR issues. They are a data-driven company that works in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment.

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