Engineering Manager, ChatBots and AI

Tbilisi, Georgiafull time

Engineering Manager, ChatBots and AI at Workato · LumiJobs

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Workato Engineering Manager at Workato leading the ChatBots and AI team responsible for delivering AI agents and managing runtime and integration layers. The role involves partnering with product managers and tracking execution in a fully remote international team.

Responsibilities

Partner with Product Managers and stakeholders to scope projects, set timelines, and define what success looks like
Plan and track execution across quarters and sprints; deliver on schedule without compromising quality
Identify blockers early, resolve them decisively, and escalate when escalation is the right call
Balance feature work against internal investments - AI-SDLC, CI/CD, platform upgrades, and technical debt
Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Senior and Staff engineers
Own hiring, onboarding, and performance management
Design team processes that fit a distributed, asynchronous environment - and evolve them as the team and company change
Apply AI tooling to how the team works, not just what it builds
Technical Ownership
Participate in architecture and design decisions as a technical peer to your engineers
Make trade-off calls on scope, approach, and sequencing - and be accountable for them
Understand the system deeply enough to allocate the team's capacity where it matters most

Qualification

5+ years managing engineering teamsExperience managing a fully remoteBackground in platform

Required

5+ years managing engineering teams, including Senior and Staff-level individual contributors
Senior engineer-level technical depth - you can read the code, challenge a design, and hold your own in an architecture discussion
Hands-on background in backend engineering; experience with Ruby, Go, or comparable languages and distributed systems
Demonstrated ability to operate under ambiguity: defining direction where none exists, and committing to decisions before all the information is available
Track record of shipping complex software on schedule in a fast-moving environment
Experience managing a fully remote, distributed team across multiple time zones
Strong written communication - in an async environment, writing is the primary management tool

Preferred

Experience building AI-powered products - agents, LLM pipelines, or orchestration systems
Background in platform, integration, or developer-facing infrastructure
Experience scaling a team through periods of rapid growth
Familiarity with enterprise SaaS or automation platforms

Company

Workato

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