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Ship it fast.\nIronclad is building AI on one of the most consequential datasets in enterprise software: over 2 billion contracts across thousands of the world's largest organizations. Contracts run every dollar, deal, and business relationship on the planet, and the AI transformation of this space is still largely uncharted. Engineers here are building agentic solutions to problems that haven't been solved yet, in a category that's still being defined. The feedback loop is short, the data is rich, and the people closest to the work are the ones deciding what gets built next. That ability to deliver impact quickly is why the the companies at the forefront of AI choose Ironclad to manage their contracts.\nWe’re consistently recognized as a leader in the industry: a Leader in the Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Lifecycle Management, a Fortune Great Place to Work, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Workplaces. Ironclad has also been named to Forbes’ AI 50 and Business Insider’s list of Companies to Bet Your Career On. We’re backed by leading investors including Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, BOND, and Franklin Templeton. For more information, visit www.ironcladapp.com or follow us on LinkedIn.\nThis is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco office. Office attendance is required at least twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for collaboration and connection. There may be additional in-office days for team or company events.\nAbout the team\nJurist is Ironclad's AI-native contract review experience, built for the lawyers and business teams who negotiate agreements every day. It brings together first-pass redlining, reasoning-backed suggested changes, deviation summaries, obligation detection, and reusable playbook libraries into a single, trusted workspace for contract review and negotiation.\nJurist is one of Ironclad's highest-priority product surfaces, sitting at the intersection of applied AI, legal workflows, and end-user trust. The team owns both the user-facing product and the backend systems that power it, including document understanding, AI orchestration, clause detection, review state management, and enterprise-scale performance.\nWe're hiring a Technical Lead Manager to lead the engineering team behind Jurist and define the next generation of AI-assisted contract review. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who wants to build product at the intersection of legal workflows, applied AI, and end-user experience.\nWhat you'll do\nSet the technical vision and roadmap for Jurist, spanning the full stack from user-facing review UI to the backend systems that power accurate, reliable AI outputs.\n\nLead architecture and execution for Jurist's core experiences: first-pass redlining, reasoning-backed suggestions, deviation summaries, obligation detection, and playbook-driven review workflows.\n\nOwn the end-to-end quality bar for Jurist, including evals, benchmarking, error analysis, regression prevention, and product instrumentation that improves accuracy and user trust over time.\n\nDrive backend and platform decisions that support document understanding, AI orchestration, review state management, permissions, and enterprise-scale performance.\n\nShape the Jurist UI and interaction model in close partnership with Product and Design, ensuring AI outputs are explainable, actionable, and trustworthy for legal and business users.\n\nPartner closely with Product, Design, Legal domain experts, Services, and go-to-market teams to translate customer pain points into scalable product capabilities.\n\nManage and grow a team of strong engineers across frontend and backend, balancing speed, technical rigor, and product judgment.\n\nEstablish strong engineering practices across design reviews, technical planning, experimentation, rollout safety, and operational excellence.\n\nWhat we're looking for\nExperience and leadership\n5+ years of experience architecting, building, and operating complex software systems in production.\n\n2+ years of technical leadership or engineering management experience, including mentoring and growing high-performing teams.\n\nA strong track record of shipping ambiguous, zero-to-one or one-to-scale products where product and technical direction evolved quickly.\n\nHigh agency and strong product instincts; you know when to go deep technically and when to simplify.\n\nTechnical depth\nExperience building and owning user-facing products end-to-end, including both the UI layer and the backend systems that support it.\n\nDeep backend and distributed systems experience, especially in systems that need to be reliable, observable, secure, and scalable.\n\nHands-on fluency with modern applied AI systems, including LLM orchestration, retrieval patterns, prompt and workflow design, model evaluation, and production quality controls.\n\nExperience building user-facing AI products where accuracy, explainability, and trust materially affect adoption.\n\nComfort working across application, platform, and infrastructure layers.\n\nFamiliarity with modern web and cloud stacks. Our teams commonly work in TypeScript, React, Node.js, Docker/Kubernetes, and Google Cloud, though direct experience in our exact stack is not required.\n\nProduct mindset\nYou care deeply about building tools users love, not just systems that technically work.\n\nYou can translate domain complexity into intuitive product behavior and clear engineering priorities.\n\nYou enjoy close collaboration with product managers, designers, researchers, and customer-facing teams to iterate quickly on new capabilities.\n\nYou think about the full user journey, from the moment a reviewer opens a contract to the moment it's signed.\n\nThe TLM role at Ironclad\nWe believe in technical leaders who stay close to the work.\nRoughly 80% building: shaping technical direction, designing systems, reviewing architecture, driving quality, and staying hands-on where it matters most.\n\nRoughly 20% leading: coaching engineers, managing performance, hiring thoughtfully, and building a healthy, high-ownership team culture.\n\nYou'll join a company building at the center of AI and enterprise software, with the chance to solve hard product and technical problems that matter to some of the world's most sophisticated legal and business teams.\nBase Salary Range: $245,000 - $295,000 offers company bonus\nThe base salary range represents the minimum and maximum of the salary range for this position based at our San Francisco headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate. Our base salary is just one component of Ironclad’s competitive total rewards package, which also includes equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure), competitive health and wellness benefits, and a commitment to career growth and development.\nUS Full-Time Employee Benefits at Ironclad:\n100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options available\n\nMarket-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave\n\nFamily forming support through Maven for you and your partner\n\nPaid time off - take the time you need, when you need it\n\nMonthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and (if applicable) cell phone use\n\nMental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools\n\nPre-tax commuter benefits (US Employees)\n\n401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match (US Employees)\n\nRegular team events to connect, recharge, and have fun\n\nAnd most importantly: the opportunity to help build the company you want to work at\n\n**UK Employee-specific benefits are included on our UK job postings\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8035,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Company events","Equity","Hybrid work","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Document Management","Digital Signature","Legal AI","Legal Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-07-15T19:11:06Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":16,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.557,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":98,"expected_fill_days":45,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":295000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ironclad-technical-lead-manager-ai","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ironclad-technical-lead-manager-ai.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-23T03:46:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6149,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":7915},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=7915"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fironclad-technical-lead-manager-ai"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fironclad-technical-lead-manager-ai"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fironclad-technical-lead-manager-ai"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ironclad-technical-lead-manager-ai\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fironclad-technical-lead-manager-ai"}]}