Tulip, the leader in AI-native frontline operations, is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with composable, connected apps, leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. Tulip’s cloud-native, no-code platform, powered by embedded AI, is driving the digital transformation of industrial environments through composable, human-centric solutions that go beyond disrupting the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) category.
A spinoff out of MIT, Tulip is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany, Hungary, Singapore, and Israel. Tulip has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Innovator, a 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast award winner, one of Energage’s Top Workplaces USA, and one of Built In Boston’s “Best Places to Work” and “Best Midsize Places to Work.”
This role is located in Somerville, MA - We are a hybrid work environment and are in the office 3+ days/per week.
About the role:
Your leadership will be the driving force behind Tulip’s core product experience. We’re looking for a technical, people-oriented Build Group Lead to help lead our growing Build team. In this role, you’ll help our company reach the next level by directing the engineering managers and technical leaders on teams that are responsible for the majority of Tulip’s product surface area. You’ll collaborate across the engineering and product teams at Tulip to determine the roadmap, scope work, navigate tradeoffs for scale, and ensure that everyone is working together effectively.
About you:
You possess high levels of technical acumen, people management skills, and a keen desire to deeply understand the business value of the product. You have honed your technical skills through years of building and delivering SaaS products. You’re passionate about mentoring engineers and helping them grow. You are a collaborative and motivated self-starter and ready to lead from the front. You bring your authentic self to work.
You also love collaborating across the organization with infrastructure, product, design, and customer teams on key projects. You’ll work with your engineering leads to cultivate and grow our engineering culture.
What skills or experience do I need?
- Expertise in contemporary tech stacks including React, Redux, NodeJS, Rabbit, MongoDB, Postgres
- People management experience, including a proven track record of managing other engineering managers or technical leads
- Experience building large SaaS products and complex distributed systems
- Led prior development efforts and oversaw the delivery of clean, efficient code
- Cross-functional team leadership with technical and customer-facing feature delivery
- Capable of hiring, mentoring, and creating career opportunities for your team
- Experience integrating software components and third-party technologies
- Experience architecting systems that integrate agentic and generative AI capabilities
- Strong understanding of testing and deploying systems in multicloud/multitenant environments.
- Experience architecting systems that integrate agentic and generative AI capabilities.
Key Collaborators:
- Product & Design
- Engineering leadership peers
- QA
- Customer-facing teams
Working At Tulip
We know even great candidates experience imposter syndrome. Even if you don’t match every requirement, applying gives you the opportunity to be considered.
We’re building a strong, diverse team that values hard work, families, and personal well-being. Benefits of working with us include:
- Direct impact on product and culture
- Company equity
- Competitive benefits package including Health, Dental, Vision, Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Life Insurance, AD&D Insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Commuter Benefits, Parental Leave, and 401(K)
- Flexible work schedule and unlimited vacation policy
- Virtual company events and happy hours
- Fitness subsidies
We are an equal opportunity employer. At Tulip, we celebrate all. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Help us build an inclusive community that will transform frontline operations.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Top Skills
Tulip Somerville, Massachusetts, USA Office
Our newly renovated office, which used to be a Ford manufacturing plant, is located in Assembly Square, a hive of tech activity, restaurants, bars, and shops off of the Assembly T stop along the Orange Line.
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