Engineering manager, ai engineering procurify · remote · canada · ai engineering ca$184,000–ca$205,0

Engineering Manager -AI About Us
Procurify is the Intelligent Spend Management company. We're on a mission to give all organizations unprecedented visibility and control over their business spend. Our industry-leading platform unifies data across procurement, AP, and expenses, helping finance and operations teams capture, analyze, and optimize every dollar of spend.
We're a remote-first company backed by leading investors, helping mid-market organizations modernize how they manage spend.
The Opportunity We're hiring an Engineering Manager, AI Engineering to lead our AI Engineering team. This team is responsible for building and operating the intelligence layer that powers Procurify's platform, leveraging Generative AI, Machine Learning, LLMs, and agentic systems to help customers automate workflows, uncover insights, and make more effective spending decisions.
This is a player-coach leadership role. You'll lead a team of AI Engineers while remaining deeply involved in technical strategy, architecture, prototyping, and critical implementation decisions. You'll balance people leadership with hands‑on technical contribution, helping shape both our AI platform and the next generation of AI‑powered customer experiences.
You'll work closely with Product, Design, Platform Engineering, Security, and Engineering leadership to define and execute Procurify's AI strategy while building a highly engaged, high‑performing team. You value accountability, technical excellence, and know how to balance long‑term vision with pragmatic execution.
WHAT YOU'LL DO Lead & Mentor Manage a team of AI Engineers, providing coaching for technical excellence, fostering individual career growth, and nurturing a high‑performance culture built on trust, ownership, experimentation, and collaboration.
Lead Through Technical Contribution Serve as a player‑coach by actively participating in architecture reviews, technical design, prototyping, proof‑of‑concepts, and critical implementation efforts. Maintain technical credibility through active engagement with the team's work and technical direction.
Drive AI Product Delivery Lead your team to consistently deliver high‑impact AI‑powered products and platform capabilities. You'll define success metrics, track progress transparently, and proactively communicate with stakeholders to ensure alignment and business impact.
Shape AI Architecture & Technical Vision Lead the technical strategy for AI Engineering by partnering with key stakeholders across Product, Platform, and Security to align our technical investments with business goals. By building foundational platforms rather, you will define the architectural standards and guardrails that empower our team to innovate at speed and scale agentic workflows, RAG systems, and LLM-powered features. Your focus includes:
LLM‑powered applications
Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
Agentic workflows and orchestration
Prompt and context engineering frameworks
AI evaluation systems
AI observability and monitoring
Responsible AI and governance practices
Build Production-Grade AI Systems Guide the design, development, deployment, and operation of AI services and infrastructure, including:
LLM and model integrations
Knowledge retrieval systems
AI orchestration platforms
Agent frameworks
Evaluation and testing frameworks
AI monitoring and feedback loops
Balance Innovation & Execution Think strategically to balance experimentation, technical debt reduction, platform investments, and product delivery. Help the organization move quickly while maintaining engineering quality and operational excellence.
Grow Our Engineering Culture Work with Engineering leadership to evolve Procurify's engineering culture, championing technical excellence, responsible innovation, continuous learning, and disciplined execution.
Collaborate Broadly Work closely with partners across the organization—including Security, Platform Engineering, Product, Design and Customer teams—to deliver robust, trustworthy, and compliant AI solutions.
Lead with CARES Commitment: Demonstrates accountability and follow-through, delivering reliably and owning outcomes in a way that others can depend on.
Ambition: Takes initiative with curiosity and a growth mindset, pursuing bold ideas that elevate impact and performance.
Resilience: Shows adaptability, composure, and perseverance through challenges, staying focused and effective in a fast‑changing environment.
Excellence: Brings rigor, collaboration, and a strong quality focus to deliver high‑performing solutions and raise the bar for outcomes.
Simplicity: Applies focus, clarity, and streamlining to cut through complexity and enable efficient, impactful execution.
What You Bring Required
Proven Leadership: 8+ years of software engineering experience. 3+ years leading software engineering teams. 3-5+ years building and deploying AI‑powered products or