Senior Engineering Manager, AI

About Us:

Monarch is a powerful, all-in-one personal finance platform designed to help make the complexity of finances feel simple again. Since launching in 2021, we’ve become the top-recommended personal finance app by users and experts. Our goal? To take the stress out of finances so our members can focus on what truly matters.

We are a team of do-ers led by experienced entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping our members reach their financial goals. We are hyper focused on building a product people love and continuing to evolve based on user feedback.

As a fully remote company (even before COVID!), we welcome applicants from almost anywhere. Our team collaborates synchronously mostly from 9 AM – 2 PM PT and embraces asynchronous work to stay connected across time zones.

Join us on our mission to transform lives by simplifying money, together.

The Role:

At Monarch, AI is the engine powering intelligent, personalized financial experiences for our users. We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our AI and AI Platform teams. These two groups are responsible for building the ML and GenAI capabilities that help hundreds of thousands of users understand and manage their money.

This is a player-coach role where technical depth matters. You'll lead a team of senior engineers (Principals, Staff, and Senior levels) working on challenging problems across the AI stack, from user-facing intelligent features to the underlying platform that makes them reliable and cost-effective. You'll set technical direction, remove blockers, and create an environment where talented engineers do their best work.

You'll partner closely with Product, Design, and Infrastructure to shape the AI roadmap and ensure we're solving the right problems for our users. You'll also be a key voice in hiring, helping grow the team thoughtfully as Monarch scales.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and Grow the Team: Manage engineers across both AI and AI Platform teams. You'll provide mentorship, give direct feedback, and create growth opportunities for a senior team that values autonomy and impact.

• Set Technical Direction: Partner with your team to define the AI roadmap, including where we invest, what we build vs. buy, and how we balance innovation with reliability. You'll help make architectural decisions and ensure we're building systems that scale.

• Deliver with Quality: Own delivery for AI initiatives across the product. You'll work with Product and Design to scope projects, ensure we ship with confidence through robust evaluation, and maintain the reliability users depend on.

• Build Cross-Functional Partnerships: Collaborate with Infrastructure on platform needs, with Product on roadmap priorities, and with leadership on AI strategy. You'll represent the AI teams across the organization.

• Hire Thoughtfully: Help grow the team by identifying great talent, running effective interviews, and making hiring decisions that strengthen the team's culture and capabilities.

What You'll Bring:

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years building and operating production ML/AI systems.

• 2+ years of engineering management experience, leading teams of senior engineers on complex technical projects.

• Technical depth in AI/ML: You can engage meaningfully with your team on architectural decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and provide technical guidance when needed.

• Experience with LLMs and GenAI in production: You understand the unique challenges of shipping AI features (evaluation, reliability, cost, safety).

• A track record of building healthy engineering teams: hiring well, developing talent, giving direct feedback, and creating inclusive environments.

• Strong product intuition: You care about user impact and can partner effectively with Product and Design.

• Excellent communication skills: You can represent your teams to leadership, align stakeholders, and communicate technical concepts clearly.

Nice to Haves:

• Fintech or Consumer Apps: Background in personal finance, banking, or high-scale consumer applications.

• Platform Engineering: Experience building internal platforms, ML infrastructure, or developer tooling.

• Distributed Teams: Leading globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.

• Scaling Teams: Growing engineering teams through periods of significant hiring.

Typical Process:

• Recruiter Video Call

• Hiring Manager Video Call

• Technical Assessment

• Virtual Onsite

• Reference Checks

• Offer

Benefits :

• Work wherever you want! As a fully remote company with no central office, we want you to work wherever you are happiest and most productive. Whether that’s out of your home, a co-working space, or elsewhere.

• Competitive cash and equity compensation in a hyper growth, early stage company 🚀.

• Stipend to set-up your ideal working environment.

• Competitive Benefit Plans for employees based on your location (e.g. in the US we offer: Medical, dental and vision benefits and the ability to contribute to a 401k plan).

• Unlimited PTO.

• 3 day weekend every month! We take off the “First Friday” every month to focus on rest, recuperation, or just having fun!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.