{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"02d7b1e19bfeeff2cdb15530","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/02d7b1e19bfeeff2cdb15530","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/02d7b1e19bfeeff2cdb15530","title":"Senior Manager, Software Engineering - AI","description":"NetDocuments is committed to providing an excellent candidate experience and will never ask you to engage in recruitment activity without phone, video, and in person meetings and communications from emails using the @netdocuments.com domain. If you have any concerns or questions about communications you have received, please send them to hrgroup@netdocuments.com so our team members can review.\n\nAbout NetDocuments\nAt NetDocuments, we're shaping the future of legal work. We believe legal professionals should spend less time searching for information and managing documents, and more time solving complex problems, serving clients, and delivering meaningful outcomes. That's why we're building technology that helps organizations work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and unlock the full value of their institutional knowledge.\nOur team is redefining what's possible for legal technology. NetDocuments is the trusted intelligent document management platform for legal professionals and the company behind the industry's first and only legal context graph—a breakthrough that gives legal professionals and AI a richer understanding of how matters, documents, people, and knowledge connect across an organization while respecting enterprise-grade security, governance, permissions, and ethical walls.\nInnovation is only part of our story. We believe our greatest strength is our people. We foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture where curiosity is encouraged, diverse perspectives are valued, and employees are empowered to make a meaningful impact. Whether you're building products, serving customers, or supporting the business, your work helps shape the future of one of the world's most trusted legal technology platforms.\nThat commitment to our employees and customers has earned us recognition as one of the nation's top workplaces, including:\nFour consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies\nFive-time Top Workplace USA winner\nFive-time Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplace\nMultiple Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards recognizing innovation, employee appreciation, work-life flexibility, and compensation & benefits\nIf you're excited to solve meaningful challenges, work alongside talented colleagues, and help define the next generation of legal technology, we'd love to meet you.\nWhat You'll Do\nWe are seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering to lead and scale our AI Search engineering\nteam as we build next generation intelligent search capabilities that transform how legal\nprofessionals find and surface critical content. Your team owns the embedding models and\nindexing pipelines that power semantic search, and partners closely with product and vertical\nteams across NetDocuments to evolve those capabilities for different use cases and industries.\nThis is a broad AI search mandate. Your team will not work on a single product in isolation but\nwill serve as the core platform layer enabling semantic experiences across the NetDocuments\necosystem. You will drive the engineering vision, mentor engineering leaders, and create an\nenvironment where innovation and operational rigor go hand in hand.\nThis position reports to the Director of Engineering, AI and will partner closely with peers across\nProduct, Architecture, and Data Science to ensure cohesive delivery of enterprise grade AI\npowered search capabilities.\nDrive Strategy & Execution\nShape and execute the long term engineering strategy for the AI Search platform, with a\nfocus on embedding model quality, indexing pipeline reliability, and semantic relevance\nacross verticals.\nCollaborate with Product, Architecture, and vertical engineering teams to translate\ncustomer needs into scalable, production ready search capabilities.\nBuild and maintain a robust roadmap that balances platform investments in model\nimprovements and indexing infrastructure with cross team partnership commitments.\nOversee delivery execution across multiple teams to ensure high quality, on time releases.\nLead & Develop High Performing Teams\nManage and mentor Engineers and Technical staff, fostering a culture of trust,\ncollaboration, and continuous improvement.\nGuide hiring, performance management, and career development to build diverse, high\nimpact teams.\nCreate an environment that attracts top engineering talent and empowers them to deliver\ntheir best work.\nCross Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management\nPartner with vertical product and engineering teams to understand domain specific search\nrequirements and adapt semantic capabilities accordingly.\nServe as the technical point of contact for AI Search capabilities, helping stakeholders\nunderstand tradeoffs in relevance, latency, and model selection.\nPresent technical strategies, roadmaps, and progress to senior leadership in clear,\nbusiness focused terms.\nDrive engagement and communication across distributed teams and business units.\nTechnical Leadership & Oversight\nMaintain strong working knowledge of embedding models, vector indexing, and semantic\nretrieval while focusing on guiding teams rather than day to day coding.\nChampion best practices for model lifecycle management, indexing pipeline design,\nrelevance evaluation, and scalable architecture.\nEnsure AI Search solutions are designed securely and meet compliance, performance,\nprivacy, and data residency standards.\nPromote responsible experimentation with emerging AI and retrieval technologies,\nbalancing innovation with production stability.\nCulture & Innovation\nFoster a growth mindset, continuous learning, and experimentation within the engineering\norganization.\nCultivate a collaborative engineering culture that values quality, innovation, and\ntransparency.\nEncourage contributions to open source projects and knowledge sharing across the\ncompany.\nWhat You'll Need to Be Successful\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (advanced degree\npreferred).\n7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in engineering\nmanagement roles.\nDemonstrated success managing multiple teams or a group of 7+ engineers and leaders.\nProven ability to define and execute a technical vision in alignment with business strategy.\nStrong experience leading distributed, cloud based product development (Azure or AWS).\nFamiliarity with machine learning model deployment and lifecycle management,\nparticularly embedding or NLP models.\nExperience building or owning data pipelines at scale including indexing, transformation,\nor ETL workflows.\nDeep understanding of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, microservices, and\nscalable architectures.\nExcellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with experience\nnavigating cross team dependencies.\nAbility to synthesize complex technical information and present it effectively to leadership\nand cross functional audience\nWhat Will Make You Stand Out\nHands on experience with semantic search or dense vector retrieval including embedding\nmodel selection, or hybrid search\nExperience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch\nFamiliarity with retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and how search quality\nfeeds downstream LLM applications.\nBackground in information retrieval, natural language processing\nExperience adapting a shared platform capability across multiple product verticals or\ncustomer segments.\nA history of building high performing, engaged teams that deliver impactful software.\nWhat You'll Love About NetDocuments\nThe People!\n90% healthcare premiums company covered\nHSA company contribution\n401K match at 4% with immediate vesting\nFlexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year)\n10 paid holidays\nMonthly contributions for life activities & wellness\nAccess to LinkedIn learning with monthly dedicated time to explore\n\nCompensation Transparency\nThe compensation range for this position is: $190,000 - $215,000\nThe posted cash compensation for this position includes on target earnings. Some roles may qualify for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are determined based on various factors specific to each candidate, such as career level, skills, experience, geographic location, qualifications, and other job-related considerations.\nEqual Opportunity\nNetDocuments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, (including pregnancy), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military and veteran status, or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. 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If you have any concerns or questions about communications you have received, please send them to hrgroup@netdocuments.com so our team members can review.\n\nAbout NetDocuments\nAt NetDocuments, we're shaping the future of legal work. We believe legal professionals should spend less time searching for information and managing documents, and more time solving complex problems, serving clients, and delivering meaningful outcomes. That's why we're building technology that helps organizations work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and unlock the full value of their institutional knowledge.\nOur team is redefining what's possible for legal technology. NetDocuments is the trusted intelligent document management platform for legal professionals and the company behind the industry's first and only legal context graph—a breakthrough that gives legal professionals and AI a richer understanding of how matters, documents, people, and knowledge connect across an organization while respecting enterprise-grade security, governance, permissions, and ethical walls.\nInnovation is only part of our story. We believe our greatest strength is our people. We foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture where curiosity is encouraged, diverse perspectives are valued, and employees are empowered to make a meaningful impact. Whether you're building products, serving customers, or supporting the business, your work helps shape the future of one of the world's most trusted legal technology platforms.\nThat commitment to our employees and customers has earned us recognition as one of the nation's top workplaces, including:\nFour consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies\nFive-time Top Workplace USA winner\nFive-time Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplace\nMultiple Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards recognizing innovation, employee appreciation, work-life flexibility, and compensation & benefits\nIf you're excited to solve meaningful challenges, work alongside talented colleagues, and help define the next generation of legal technology, we'd love to meet you.\nWhat You'll Do\nWe are seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering to lead and scale our AI Search engineering\nteam as we build next generation intelligent search capabilities that transform how legal\nprofessionals find and surface critical content. Your team owns the embedding models and\nindexing pipelines that power semantic search, and partners closely with product and vertical\nteams across NetDocuments to evolve those capabilities for different use cases and industries.\nThis is a broad AI search mandate. Your team will not work on a single product in isolation but\nwill serve as the core platform layer enabling semantic experiences across the NetDocuments\necosystem. You will drive the engineering vision, mentor engineering leaders, and create an\nenvironment where innovation and operational rigor go hand in hand.\nThis position reports to the Director of Engineering, AI and will partner closely with peers across\nProduct, Architecture, and Data Science to ensure cohesive delivery of enterprise grade AI\npowered search capabilities.\nDrive Strategy & Execution\nShape and execute the long term engineering strategy for the AI Search platform, with a\nfocus on embedding model quality, indexing pipeline reliability, and semantic relevance\nacross verticals.\nCollaborate with Product, Architecture, and vertical engineering teams to translate\ncustomer needs into scalable, production ready search capabilities.\nBuild and maintain a robust roadmap that balances platform investments in model\nimprovements and indexing infrastructure with cross team partnership commitments.\nOversee delivery execution across multiple teams to ensure high quality, on time releases.\nLead & Develop High Performing Teams\nManage and mentor Engineers and Technical staff, fostering a culture of trust,\ncollaboration, and continuous improvement.\nGuide hiring, performance management, and career development to build diverse, high\nimpact teams.\nCreate an environment that attracts top engineering talent and empowers them to deliver\ntheir best work.\nCross Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management\nPartner with vertical product and engineering teams to understand domain specific search\nrequirements and adapt semantic capabilities accordingly.\nServe as the technical point of contact for AI Search capabilities, helping stakeholders\nunderstand tradeoffs in relevance, latency, and model selection.\nPresent technical strategies, roadmaps, and progress to senior leadership in clear,\nbusiness focused terms.\nDrive engagement and communication across distributed teams and business units.\nTechnical Leadership & Oversight\nMaintain strong working knowledge of embedding models, vector indexing, and semantic\nretrieval while focusing on guiding teams rather than day to day coding.\nChampion best practices for model lifecycle management, indexing pipeline design,\nrelevance evaluation, and scalable architecture.\nEnsure AI Search solutions are designed securely and meet compliance, performance,\nprivacy, and data residency standards.\nPromote responsible experimentation with emerging AI and retrieval technologies,\nbalancing innovation with production stability.\nCulture & Innovation\nFoster a growth mindset, continuous learning, and experimentation within the engineering\norganization.\nCultivate a collaborative engineering culture that values quality, innovation, and\ntransparency.\nEncourage contributions to open source projects and knowledge sharing across the\ncompany.\nWhat You'll Need to Be Successful\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (advanced degree\npreferred).\n7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in engineering\nmanagement roles.\nDemonstrated success managing multiple teams or a group of 7+ engineers and leaders.\nProven ability to define and execute a technical vision in alignment with business strategy.\nStrong experience leading distributed, cloud based product development (Azure or AWS).\nFamiliarity with machine learning model deployment and lifecycle management,\nparticularly embedding or NLP models.\nExperience building or owning data pipelines at scale including indexing, transformation,\nor ETL workflows.\nDeep understanding of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, microservices, and\nscalable architectures.\nExcellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with experience\nnavigating cross team dependencies.\nAbility to synthesize complex technical information and present it effectively to leadership\nand cross functional audience\nWhat Will Make You Stand Out\nHands on experience with semantic search or dense vector retrieval including embedding\nmodel selection, or hybrid search\nExperience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch\nFamiliarity with retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and how search quality\nfeeds downstream LLM applications.\nBackground in information retrieval, natural language processing\nExperience adapting a shared platform capability across multiple product verticals or\ncustomer segments.\nA history of building high performing, engaged teams that deliver impactful software.\nWhat You'll Love About NetDocuments\nThe People!\n90% healthcare premiums company covered\nHSA company contribution\n401K match at 4% with immediate vesting\nFlexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year)\n10 paid holidays\nMonthly contributions for life activities & wellness\nAccess to LinkedIn learning with monthly dedicated time to explore\n\nCompensation Transparency\nThe compensation range for this position is: $190,000 - $215,000\nThe posted cash compensation for this position includes on target earnings. Some roles may qualify for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are determined based on various factors specific to each candidate, such as career level, skills, experience, geographic location, qualifications, and other job-related considerations.\nEqual Opportunity\nNetDocuments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, (including pregnancy), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military and veteran status, or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. 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