ABOUT OPAQUE SYSTEMS, INC.
What we do
Opaque is the confidential AI platform unlocking sensitive data to securely accelerate AI into production. Created by world-renowned researchers at the Berkeley RISELab, Opaque’s user-friendly platform empowers organizations to run cloud-scale, general purpose AI workloads on encrypted data. Opaque supports popular languages and frameworks for AI, including Python and Spark, and enables governed data sharing with cryptographic verification of privacy and sovereignty. Opaque customers deploy high-performance AI faster and eliminate the tradeoff between innovation and security.
Who we are
At Opaque, we cultivate an effective work culture grounded in kindness, customer-centricity, and continuous improvement. By fostering innovation, inclusivity, and excellence, we attract top talent and set industry standards, leading to widespread adoption and trust in AI technologies that keep data private and sovereign.
Benefits
- Premier health coverage: We cover medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you and any dependents - along with basic life insurance and LTD. We also offer FSA, HSA, and other voluntary insurance programs (Life, Accident, Illness, Hospital).
- Equity incentives: We offer an employee stock option plan to ensure you have a stake in our company's success.
- Flexible PTO: We support positive work-life balance and encourage you to take time away to refresh on your own terms.
- Retirement planning: 401K plans (both Roth and Traditional).
- Flexible work: We are a remote-first company and offer a home-office equipment setup stipend to support your best work.
- Mental health: Free access to Spring Health for therapy, wellness exercises, and mental health coaching.
- Corporate discount program: Free access to Working Advantage for corporate discounts on a variety of products, services, and experiences.
ABOUT THIS JOB
As an Engineering Manager at Opaque Systems, you effectively partner with all levels of leadership. You will collaborate with Product, Marketing, R&D, and business line customers across the company to build consensus. You design mechanisms to drive consistent execution, tracking, reporting, and escalation for leadership and EMs within the organization. You will represent, verbally and in writing, complex decisions, tough trade-offs, and potential solutions clearly to leaders to help them understand the decisions they have to make and what options they have. You will own and deliver WBRs, MBRs, QBRs, and OP1s while influencing organizational priorities, system owners, business, and technology direction. You manage cross-functional and cross-product communication to ensure all stakeholders are informed and need to be aligned. You recognize when current programs are susceptible to prior failure patterns and actively steer leadership to avoid repeating these failures. You know when a design or solution requires additional technical guidance (e.g., from senior engineers or subject matter experts). You show excellent judgment in driving executive-level escalations.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and own processes to engage with strategic partners, influencing stakeholders to drive the adoption of Opaque’s products.
- Manage stakeholders and coordinate cross-team, cross-org, and cross-product dependencies for the next generation of Opaque’s products.
- Oversee and continuously improve the Engineering Quarterly Product Planning and Workback process.
- Coordinate cross-product and cross-team dependencies as the organization transitions to a domain-based structure.
- Manage product intake requests, aligning them with scientific goals and driving consensus.
- Proactively address problems, remove blockers, and escalate high-priority issues with clear, well-documented communication.
Basic Qualifications
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 6+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing and developing large-scale, high-traffic applications
- Understanding of machine learning, statistical modeling, and data analytics.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities
The pay range for this role is:
160,000 - 200,000 USD per year (Remote - United States)