Über diese Engineering Manager, AI Engineering Stelle bei Procurify

Procurify · Remote · Canada Remote

Engineering Manager -AI

About Us

Procurify is the Intelligent Spend Management company. We're on a mission to give all organizations unprecedented visibility and control over their business spend. Our industry-leading platform unifies data across procurement, AP, and expenses, helping finance and operations teams capture, analyze, and optimize every dollar of spend.

We're a remote-first company backed by leading investors, helping mid-market organizations modernize how they manage spend.

The Opportunity

We're hiring an Engineering Manager, AI Engineering to lead our AI Engineering team. This team is responsible for building and operating the intelligence layer that powers Procurify's platform, leveraging Generative AI, Machine Learning, LLMs, and agentic systems to help customers automate workflows, uncover insights, and make more effective spending decisions.

This is a player-coach leadership role. You'll lead a team of AI Engineers while remaining deeply involved in technical strategy, architecture, prototyping, and critical implementation decisions. You'll balance people leadership with hands-on technical contribution, helping shape both our AI platform and the next generation of AI-powered customer experiences.

You'll work closely with Product, Design, Platform Engineering, Security, and Engineering leadership to define and execute Procurify's AI strategy while building a highly engaged, high-performing team. You value accountability, technical excellence, and know how to balance long-term vision with pragmatic execution.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Lead & Mentor

Manage a team of AI Engineers, providing coaching for technical excellence, fostering individual career growth, and nurturing a high-performance culture built on trust, ownership, experimentation, and collaboration.

Lead Through Technical Contribution

Serve as a player-coach by actively participating in architecture reviews, technical design, prototyping, proof-of-concepts, and critical implementation efforts. Maintain technical credibility through active engagement with the team's work and technical direction.

Drive AI Product Delivery

Lead your team to consistently deliver high-impact AI-powered products and platform capabilities. You'll define success metrics, track progress transparently, and proactively communicate with stakeholders to ensure alignment and business impact.

Shape AI Architecture & Technical Vision

Lead the technical strategy for AI Engineering by partnering with key stakeholders across Product, Platform, and Security to align our technical investments with business goals. By building foundational platforms rather, you will define the architectural standards and guardrails that empower our team to innovate at speed and scale agentic workflows, RAG systems, and LLM-powered features. Your focus includes:
- LLM-powered applications
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
- Agentic workflows and orchestration
- Prompt and context engineering frameworks
- AI evaluation systems
- AI observability and monitoring
- Responsible AI and governance practices

Build Production-Grade AI Systems

Guide the design, development, deployment, and operation of AI services and infrastructure, including:

LLM and model integrations
Knowledge retrieval systems
AI orchestration platforms
Agent frameworks
Evaluation and testing frameworks
AI monitoring and feedback loops

Balance Innovation & Execution

Think strategically to balance experimentation, technical debt reduction, platform investments, and product delivery. Help the organization move quickly while maintaining engineering quality and operational excellence.

Grow Our Engineering Culture

Work with Engineering leadership to evolve Procurify's engineering culture, championing technical excellence, responsible innovation, continuous learning, and disciplined execution.

Collaborate Broadly

Work closely with partners across the organization—including Security, Platform Engineering, Product, Design and Customer teams—to deliver robust, trustworthy, and compliant AI solutions.

Lead with CARES

Commitment: Demonstrates accountability and follow-through, delivering reliably and owning outcomes in a way that others can depend on.
Ambition: Takes initiative with curiosity and a growth mindset, pursuing bold ideas that elevate impact and performance.
Resilience: Shows adaptability, composure, and perseverance through challenges, staying focused and effective in a fast-changing environment.
Excellence: Brings rigor, collaboration, and a strong quality focus to deliver high-performing solutions and raise the bar for outcomes.
Simplicity: Applies focus, clarity, and streamlining to cut through complexity and enable efficient, impactful execution.

What You Bring

Required

Proven Leadership: 8+ years of software engineering experience. 3+ years leading software engineering teams. 3-5+ years building and deploying AI-powered products or platforms in production environments. Demonstrated success operating as a technical leader in a player-coach capacity.

AI Engineering Expertise Strong hands-on experience building and operating:

LLM-powered applications
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
Agentic AI workflows
AI orchestration frameworks
AI evaluation and monitoring systems
Production machine learning services

Modern AI Platform Experience

Experience working with technologies such as:

Python
Azure OpenAI and/or AWS Bedrock
Databricks
Kubernetes
Vector databases
LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, or similar orchestration frameworks
ML/LLMOps tooling

Architectural Acumen: Proven ability to architect and scale distributed systems, AI platforms, and customer-facing software products. You have a track record of navigating technical complexity while making pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, reliability, maintainability, and cost.

AI Product Mindset: Experience translating ambiguous business problems into AI-enabled products that deliver measurable customer value.

Empathetic & Accountable: A self-driven, accountable leader who thrives in an autonomous, fast-paced environment and leads with empathy, compassion, and a people-first approach.

Exceptional Communicator: You excel at communicating complex technical concepts, AI capabilities, risks, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Modern AI Experience: Deep understanding of modern AI technologies including:

Generative AI
Large Language Models
Retrieval systems
Agentic architectures
AI safety and governance considerations

Preferred

FinTech or B2B SaaS Experience: A strong interest or background in the FinTech ecosystem. Direct experience building AI-powered products in a B2B SaaS environment is highly desirable.

Agile & DevOps Mindset: Strong knowledge of agile development practices, CI/CD, test automation, observability, and modern software delivery practices.

AI Platform & LLMOps Experience: Experience building workflow orchestration systems, durable async programming, intent detection, AI platforms, evaluation frameworks, model governance, processes, or AI developer tooling.

Why This Role is Exciting

You'll define and execute Procurify's AI Engineering strategy.
You'll build AI capabilities that directly shape the future of our platform.
You'll lead a talented team of AI Engineers while remaining deeply technical.
You'll influence architecture, platform investments, and AI governance across the organization.
You'll help establish best practices for how AI is built, deployed, and operated at scale.
You'll be part of a supportive, people-first culture that values curiosity, autonomy, growth, and innovation.

What Makes Procurify a Great Place to Work for Engineers

A modern technology stack with opportunities to influence future architecture.
A culture committed to learning, experimentation, and engineering excellence.
Clear technical vision and empowered teams that own outcomes.
Genuine collaboration, psychological safety, and a people-first culture.
Meaningful problems to solve with real customer and business impact.

WHY PROCURIFY?

We’re committed to helping mission-driven organizations spend smarter

Procurify is a remote-first company with a big heart and a strong ambition to modernize the way organizations manage business spend. We’re looking for talented and team-driven individuals to join us on our journey to build a place where the best people want to work – a place where every team member is empowered to apply their best thinking, push boundaries thoughtfully, and drive high performance together.

You’re empowered to do your best work

We’ve created an environment where personal and professional growth is a real priority. Some of the great perks we offer include:

Flexible working: We’re a remote-first organization with flexible working hours. Work anywhere from within Canada!
Responsible time off: We trust our team to take the time they need to rest and recharge while staying accountable to their commitments.
Extended health benefits: We prioritize our team’s health and well-being. We offer a competitive health, vision, and dental package along with an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and a health and wellness spending account.
Community initiatives: We have a strong commitment to the community. Join one of our regular community days, donate to our Donate Your Day program, and get involved with one of our lunch and learns.
Stock options: Everyone has a chance to own a part of Procurify with our competitive stock program.
DEI initiatives: We regularly run a diversity, equity, and inclusion roundtable where we host guest speakers and tackle the topics that matter.
Base Salary Range: $184,000 - $205,000 CAD (This range is dependent on experience and not inclusive of any bonus, commission, benefits or equity that might exist in your total compensation package).

LEARN MORE

Procurify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against any team members or applicants for employment because of race, color, disability, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity and/or expression.

If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply anyway. We know that feelings of imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting incredible candidates, and we certainly don’t want those feelings to get in the way of meeting you! We really want to get to know you and why you're great for the role. Please avoid including your picture and age on your resume.