IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:- Lead a fullstack team building Retool's automation capabilities, including workflows, integrations, and AI-driven agents.
- Partner with Product and Design to define the team's strategy and roadmap, connecting technical investments to customer needs and business impact.
- Guide technical design and architecture across workflow execution, state management, service integrations, observability, and system reliability.
- Help shape how AI agents operate in production, including autonomous execution, human oversight, debugging, and recovery when things go wrong.
- Drive execution from scoping through launch and iteration, making tradeoffs, resolving dependencies, and balancing experimentation with reliable delivery.
- Work directly with customers and go-to-market partners to understand complex business processes and translate them into reusable automation capabilities.
- Support engineers through continuous feedback, coaching, growth opportunities, and clear performance expectations.
- Build processes that improve delivery and cross-team collaboration, and partner with Recruiting to grow a diverse team of exceptional engineers.
THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING:- 2+ years of experience successfully leading and managing engineering teams.
- Strong technical judgment; we don't expect you to code regularly, but you should be able to navigate our codebase and engage deeply in design and architecture decisions.
- A track record of setting technical direction and delivering complex systems, ideally involving workflows, distributed systems, integrations, or developer-facing products.
- Strong product instincts: the ability to connect technical decisions to customer needs, shape priorities with Product, and identify capabilities that serve multiple use cases.
- A point of view on AI-driven automation and what it takes to make intelligent systems useful and dependable in production.
- Sound judgment when balancing delivery speed, system reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Experience coaching engineers, managing performance, and recruiting and building strong teams.
- A propensity to operate as a business owner, caring deeply about our customers, product, and team.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity, making decisions with incomplete information, and holding yourself and others accountable.
- Clear, direct communication and the ability to partner effectively across engineering, product, design, and go-to-market teams.
For candidates based in the United States, the pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings (OTE) for commissionable roles. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Retool and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors such as (but not limited to), scope and responsibilities, the candidate's experience and qualifications, and location.
Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.
The base pay range for this role is $260,000 - $360,000 per year.
Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!
Retool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. To find roles that can be employed in the UK, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations.
