Director, Product Engineering

Braintrust

$160K — $200K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven engineering leader with experience managing and scaling high-performing teams.
  • Exceptional product judgment with a strong focus on UI/UX design.
  • Deep technical expertise in modern web applications and relevant technologies like TypeScript and React.
  • Builder's mindset with ability to balance strategy and detailed technical decisions.
  • High ownership with a bias toward action in fast-paced environments.
  • Experience in startups or AI is a plus, particularly with LLM products.

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead an exceptional product engineering team fostering culture and performance.
  • Enhance the quality of Braintrust's user interface across design, performance, and reliability.
  • Own and evolve the product's technical direction and frontend architecture.
  • Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to align on user needs and technical decisions.
  • Deliver ambitious and scalable product capabilities focusing on LLM analysis and prompt management.
  • Drive innovative product development at the intersection of AI and team collaboration.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
  • Flexible time off
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Wifi & cellphone stipend
Full Job Description
About the role

We're looking for a Director of Product Engineering to lead the team building Braintrust's core product experience.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role for someone who cares deeply about both building great products and great engineering teams. You'll shape how we build: setting technical direction, raising our product bar, and growing an exceptional product engineering team.

What you'll do
  • Build and lead an exceptional product engineering team. Build a culture of ownership, ambition, and consistently strong execution.
  • Make Braintrust's UI exceptional. Raise the bar across interaction design, performance, reliability, and product polish.
  • Own the technical direction of the product. Evolve our frontend architecture to support increasingly sophisticated workflows, larger datasets, and a rapidly growing customer base without sacrificing speed or quality.
  • Stay close to the product, customers, and code. Work alongside Product and Design to understand our users, shape the roadmap, and make the technical decisions that matter most.
  • Deliver ambitious product capabilities at scale. Lead the team building experiences like our prompt playground, prompt management and versioning, multiplayer human review, and LLM analysis across arbitrarily large datasets.
  • Build products at the frontier of how teams work with AI. From prompt experimentation and versioning to multiplayer review and large-scale LLM analysis, you'll lead the engineering behind some of our hardest product problems.


Ideal candidate credentials
  • A proven engineering leader who has built, managed, and scaled high-performing teams, with a track record of recruiting exceptional engineers and developing future leaders.
  • Exceptional product judgment and UI craft. You know what separates a good product from a world-class one and care deeply about usability, performance, interaction design, and the details.
  • Deep technical expertise in modern web applications. You've built sophisticated, data-intensive products and are comfortable with technologies like TypeScript, React, SQL, and Next.js.
  • A builder's mindset. You can think about organizational strategy one minute and dig into an architecture decision the next.
  • High ownership and a bias toward action. You thrive in fast-moving environments, make pragmatic decisions, and know how to create teams that move quickly without sacrificing quality.
  • Experience with startups or AI is valuable, but not required. We'd especially value experience building LLM-powered products or leading teams through rapid growth.


Benefits include
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
  • Flexible time off
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Wifi & cellphone stipend

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