Technical Lead Manager, AI Platform

Staff-level IC depth in ML or applied AI: you're the person others pull in when the problem is genuinely hard, and you've stayed technical while leading

1+ years managing or formally tech-leading engineers (Tech Lead Manager) or 4+ years including setting technical direction across multiple teams (Technical Director)

You've shipped production ML or LLM systems used by real people at scale: retrieval, ranking, recommendation, agentic workflows, or similar

Eval-driven: you know how to measure model quality against business outcomes, not just offline benchmarks, and you can tell a real win from noise

Data-fluent: you can pull your own SQL, sanity-check an experiment readout, and push back on a bad metric

AI fluency is a floor here, not a differentiator. You use AI tools in your own work and you know how to raise a team's leverage with them

You write things down. Operating norms, decision docs, postmortems. Clarity in writing is how small teams stay fast as they grow

You still want to build. If writing production code every week sounds like a step backward, this isn't the role

AI Platform is where Paraform's moat gets built. We have proprietary hiring data no one else has, and the systems your team builds turn it into better matches, faster fills, and automation the rest of the industry can't replicate. You'll set the technical direction for AI at the company while the org is still small enough that your decisions compound.

Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We partner with industry leaders like Decagon, Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year.

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.

Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world.

At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring. That’s why we’re building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.

We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors – and we’re building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

We are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Scale, Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.