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You run the cadences, track every active project, surface risk early, and you're the first escalation point when something breaks. You lead through clear writing and good decisions, not status theater. A Manager of One who creates Managers of One.\nAbout SearchApi\nSearchApi is a real-time SERP API delivering structured data from 100+ search engines and sources, including Google Search, Google Shopping, Google Jobs, Bing, Baidu, YouTube, Amazon, and many more. We power production workloads for Fortune 500 companies, AI startups, and developers who need reliable search data at scale.\nWe're a lean, profitable, bootstrapped team. No VC pressure, no bloat. Just people shipping real products to real customers.\nWhy Join Us?\nOwn how the team ships. Delivery, quality, and process are yours to design and run.\n\nClose to the founder. You take the operational load so the CEO can focus on direction.\n\nProcess that matters. On a small, fast team, good process is leverage, not bureaucracy.\n\nHigh bar, high trust. You hire and grow people who don't need managing.\n\nBootstrapped and Profitable. We answer to customers, not investors.\n\nHow You Work\nYou're technical enough to read a plan or a PR and call BS.\n\nYou live in GitHub and Notion. If it isn't written down, it didn't happen.\n\nYou use AI to run a lighter, faster process, and you know where not to trust it.\n\nYou Use AI, And You Know Its Limits\nWe expect you to use AI agents in your own work, planning, summaries, and drafts, and to push the team to do the same. You also know exactly where you've decided not to trust them yet, and you can say why.\nWhat You'll Do\nRun the cadences. Planning, standups, and retros. Lightweight, useful, never theater.\n\nTrack everything. Know the state of every active project and surface risk before it becomes a fire.\n\nOwn delivery metrics. Cycle time, review latency, and reliability. Use them humanely, not as a stick.\n\nCommand incidents. Be the first escalation when something breaks, coordinate the response, and run a blameless RCA that actually changes something.\n\nGrow the team. 1:1s, coaching, and a hiring pipeline that holds a high bar (job descriptions, scorecards, screens).\n\nYou own outcomes. Not the most code. The most shipped, on time, at quality.\nThe Hard Parts\nThis role is not for everyone. Here's what makes it hard:\nYou own outcomes without writing most of the code. Your impact is the team's output, not your commits.\n\nSmall-team metrics are noisy. You'll need judgment to tell signal from noise.\n\nHold the bar without becoming the bottleneck. Both at once.\n\nYou make the unpopular call. And explain it clearly.\n\nIf you want a title without the accountability, this isn't for you.\nAbout You\nYou've shipped delivery improvements. Real ones, with a before-and-after you can describe.\n\nTechnical enough to earn respect. Engineers trust your judgment because you understand the work.\n\nHumane with data. You use metrics to help people, not to rank them.\n\nCalm in incidents. You coordinate instead of panicking.\n\nGreat writer. Your decisions are clear on the page, without a meeting.\n\nSelf-directed. You don't wait to be told what's slipping.\n\nFluent in English, written and spoken.\n\nRequired experience:\nA written example of how you ran a delivery process or unblocked a team: a real retro, an incident RCA, or a process you designed and rolled out.\n\nWe're especially looking for:\nYou've managed a small, high-output engineering team.\n\nIncident command experience.\n\nA track record of hiring at a high bar.\n\nWhat We Look For\nWhat makes a strong application:\nAble to show us real automations you've built to optimise processes, the metrics you act on to make impactful decisions, and real examples of lessons you've learnt while managing a team.\nInclude \"Octopus Tentacle\" in your application so we know you read this. [redacted]\n Get to know each other.\n\nWritten exercise. A realistic delivery or incident scenario.\n\nPanel conversation. Meet the team you'd support.\n\nReference check + Offer\n\nWhat You Get\nFully Remote. Work from anywhere.\n\nEquity share. Own a piece of what you're building.\n\nProfit sharing. When we win, you win.\n\nLearn from the founder. 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