Engineering Leader

Summary

Join Spot AI, a rapidly growing Video AI company, as their Engineering and Product leader. Lead the engineering and product organization responsible for the AI Video Management System, deployed across 1000+ customers. Democratize Physical AI by building an easy-to-use and reliable product improving security, safety, and efficiency. Innovate on product form and value to accelerate market share. Define the roadmap, architect, and develop novel solutions. Own a revenue goal, balancing short and long-term initiatives. Hire, lead, and scale a high-caliber engineering team. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in product-driven engineering teams, particularly with AI/ML products, and a passion for building and leading teams. Spot AI offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• You have strong product sense and an entrepreneurial mindset
• You think strategically about product direction, deeply understand user experience, and consistently deliver high-impact solutions to customers
• You desire a role larger than just engineering
• You're excited about Physical AI and the transformative role of video in the business tech stack
• You are genuinely passionate about innovations in video and the integration of AI into physical environments, and you're eager to lead in this space
• You have broad technical experience
• Your expertise spans several domains - incl. firmware, full-stack web, video technologies and AI
• Your versatility allows you to lead effectively across multidisciplinary teams and technical domains
• You have been a direct manager of product-driven engineering teams for at least 7 years, and have spent at least 3 focused on AI/ML products
• You are passionate about building and leading teams that build great products
• You love talking to customers and thrive in a revenue–driven culture
• You participate often in customer calls, including for sales support and escalations
• You’ve directly supported positive customer outcomes through your participation in marketing, customer success and sales
• You thrive-in and create a high empathy, high accountability environment
• You motivate and inspire your team, helping them grow and create an environment that brings out their best and helps them deliver outlier outcomes
• You’re a collaborative partner that builds trust at all levels
• You foster collaboration, navigate team dynamics with ease and instill confidence in others

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering and product organization responsible for our AI Video Management System product that is deployed across 1,000+ customers and several thousand locations
• Democratize Physical AI by building an easy-to-use and reliable product that improves security, safety and efficiency outcomes for customers
• In a crowded Video Surveillance market, you will innovate on product form and value to accelerate market share
• You and your team will define the roadmap and architect and develop novel solutions to get to customer outcomes
• You will own a revenue goal for your product and balance short and long term initiatives to maximize revenue growth
• You will hire, lead and scale a high caliber engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• Stretching beyond engineering into defining a product roadmap based on working directly with customers to better understand their use-cases
• Building, working with and coaching an extremely high caliber engineering and product team
• Developing video AI products from inception to production, with extreme ownership and opportunities to implement novel solutions
• Delivering video intelligence features in ways that are thoughtful about end user privacy, such as on-device models and federated training

Benefits

• Annual Base Salary Range: up to $280,000, depending on factors such as experience and location
• Meaningful early stage equity
• Medical, dental and vision plan options with little-to-no cost for employees and dependents
• Company paid short- and long-term disability plans
• Company paid life insurance
• 401K with Employer Match