Vanta
SaaS
EngineeringManager,AI
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“Engineering Manager, AI at Vanta. Skills: AI, LLM-backed products, team management, technical strategy. Build and scale a high-performing team. hiring strategically to fill skill gaps”
What You'll Achieve.
make AI a core differentiator of Vanta; enabling and accelerating product innovation; creating reliable, trustworthy, and high-quality customer experiences; ship AI features that deliver magical customer experiences; automate audit work while maintaining human-in-the-loop controls
Industry & Context.
sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2+ years of experience managing technical teams of 4-8+ engineers, Proven track record as a individual contributor before transitioning to management, hands-on applied AI experience, Deep knowledge of building LLM-backed products, experience with prompting, experience with RAG, experience with agent frameworks, experience with quality hill-climbing, adaptability and comfort with ambiguity, Excellent collaboration and influencing skills across engineering, product, design, and cross-functional teams, Familiarity with Vanta's tech stack (TypeScript, React, Node. js) or willingness to ramp quickly, Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work, demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
Nice to Have
experience in fast-paced, startup founder background or YC experience is a plus
What You'll Do.
Build and scale a high-performing team
hiring strategically to fill skill gaps
and create an environment where your team can do their best work
deliver for the business
Set direction and guide technical strategy for AI agent and downmarket products
ensuring long-term value aligned with Vanta's business priorities
Partner closely with product
and AI platform teams to ship customer-facing AI features
automate audit work while maintaining human-in-the-loop controls
Champion best practices for applied AI
Navigate rapid change and ambiguity with adaptability
iterating quickly on roadmaps
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with product, design, and AI platform teams; collaboration and influencing skills across engineering, product, design, and cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
Excellent collaboration and influencing skills
Process & Methodology
iterating quickly on roadmaps
Full Job Description
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. This team helps automate audit readiness work while keeping customers in control. This is a rare opportunity to lead a zero-to-one build in one of the fastest-growing areas of our business, transforming Vanta into an AI-first platform. The team's mission is to make AI a core differentiator of Vanta by enabling and accelerating product innovation, and creating reliable, trustworthy, and high-quality customer experiences. The team is currently building out our Vanta Agent product, focused on downmarket and startup customers initially, with plans to scale the product to all customer segments. Core projects include agentic evidence collection, reducing manual work while ensuring the customer remains the final approver in all decisions. In this role, you'll manage a team that's scaling rapidly—currently 7 engineers with plans to grow to scale further throughout the year. You'll work closely with Vanta's AI platform team, product, and GRC subject matter experts to ship AI features that deliver magical customer experiences. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog https://www.vanta.com/all-categories/engineering to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta: - Build and scale a high-performing team, hiring strategically to fill skill gaps as the team grows - Coach, mentor, and create an environment where your team can do their best work and deliver for the business - Set direction and guide technical strategy for AI agent and downmarket products, ensuring long-term value aligned with Vanta's business priorities - Partner closely with product, design, and AI platform teams to ship customer
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