Technical Lead Manager, AI at Ironclad
San Francisco, CA
$245,000–$295,000
Jul 14, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Technical Lead Manager role responsible for the engineering team behind Jurist, an AI-driven contract review product. The position spans full-stack ownership — from document understanding and AI orchestration on the backend to the reviewer-facing interface — covering features like redlining, clause detection, and playbook-driven workflows. Suited to someone with both hands-on distributed systems depth and experience managing engineers, who is comfortable shaping product direction alongside AI and legal domain complexity.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $245,000–$295,000
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 28,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 17,000–42,600
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting describes a Technical Lead Manager (TLM) role with an explicit ~80% hands-on technical / ~20% people-management split. It sits genuinely between 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers) and 15-1252 (Software Developers); 11-3021 was chosen as primary because the role carries direct reports, hiring authority, and performance management responsibilities.
The caller has overridden the location to fully remote / national pool; the posting itself states a San Francisco hybrid requirement (Tuesdays and Thursdays in-office).
The 5+ years figure is the overall software systems experience gate; the 2+ years of technical leadership/management is a separate gate captured in the skills list implicitly through the role's management requirements.
The tech stack (TypeScript, React, Node.js, Docker/Kubernetes, Google Cloud) is explicitly called out as 'not required' — 'direct experience in our exact stack is not required' — so all stack items are marked preferred.
LLM orchestration, retrieval patterns, prompt/workflow design, and model evaluation are all listed under the required 'Technical depth' section and are consolidated under the 'LLMs' skill as a hard gate.
No degree requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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