Tech Lead Manager, Product Growth
Glean Work is hiring a Tech Lead Manager, Product Growth in Mountain View, United States. It pays $250k-$300k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Glean Work.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- The posting mentions AI agents among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a lead role.
- Glean Work has 130 other open roles on Level.
- Posted in the last few days.
AI in this role
- Define technical direction and lead execution for product growth initiatives across Glean’s user-facing experiences.
- Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, and Applied AI to identify and prioritize opportunities that increase product awareness, adoption, activation, and engagement.
- Lead a team of full-stack engineers in building thoughtful, measurable experiences that help users realize value from Glean more quickly and return to the product more frequently.
- Use product data, customer insights, behavioral analysis, and experimentation to understand growth opportunities and make informed technical and product decisions.
- Help establish a strong experimentation and measurement foundation, including clear hypotheses, success metrics, instrumentation, experiment design, analysis, and iteration.
- Own projects end to end, from identifying a user or customer problem through technical design, implementation, launch, measurement, and follow-through.
- Stay close to the code and architecture, contributing directly where needed, reviewing designs and code, debugging complex issues, and maintaining a high technical bar.
- Bring strong backend and systems leadership to the team while partnering effectively across the full stack and user-facing product experience.
- Collaborate with engineering teams across Glean to deliver cohesive experiences and build scalable foundations for growth.
- engage with users and customers when useful to understand their needs, identify friction, and ensure that growth initiatives solve meaningful problems
- As the team grows, hire, coach, and develop engineers; establish effective engineering practices; and create an environment of ownership, learning, and high-quality execution.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building production distributed systems or cloud‑native applications.
- 1+ years of engineering management experience of a full stack team
- BS/BA in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- You are a product-forward software engineering leader with experience building and shipping user-facing products, preferably in B2B SaaS, AI, productivity, collaboration, or other high-engagement software.
- You have a strong track record of execution and can lead a group of engineers through ambiguity, make sound technical decisions, and deliver meaningful outcomes.
- You have partnered effectively with Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists to define problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver measurable product improvements.
- You are highly analytical and comfortable using data to understand user behavior, evaluate opportunities, define success metrics, and assess experiment results.
- You have demonstrated experience with product growth, experimentation, activation, adoption, engagement, retention, or other data-driven product optimization work.
- You have a strong understanding of customer needs and enjoy building products that users discover, adopt, and use regularly.
- Experience building or working with agentic AI products, large language model applications, machine learning systems, or AI-assisted product experiences is a plus.
- This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Mountain View office)
AI-First Mindset at Glean: At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll 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 isn't required. Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants: Depending on your location, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), or other privacy laws may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available in our Privacy Policy. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required. US applicants and their applications are subject to arbitration of disputes as outlined in our Applicant Arbitration Agreement.
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How we rate this
Tech Lead Manager, Product Growth at Glean Work rates 66 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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