Director, Product Engineering

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
Entry level
Blockchain • Web3
The Role
Lead Braintrust’s product engineering organization and technical direction. Build and scale a high-performing team, improve UI quality, guide frontend architecture, partner with Product and Design, and deliver sophisticated AI product capabilities including prompt experimentation, versioning, multiplayer review, and large-scale LLM analysis. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong product judgment, modern web application expertise, and a focus on usability, performance, reliability, and execution.
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About the company

Braintrust is the agent observability platform. By actively applying intelligence to agent traces and automatically surfacing the most critical patterns, Braintrust gives teams the visibility to understand how agents behave in production and the tools to improve them.
Teams at Notion, Stripe, Box, OpenAI, and Cloudflare use Braintrust to trace their agents, find the issues in their observability data, and run evals that tell them how to improve.

About the role

We're looking for a Director of Product Engineering to lead the team building Braintrust's core product experience.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role for someone who cares deeply about both building great products and great engineering teams. You’ll shape how we build: setting technical direction, raising our product bar, and growing an exceptional product engineering team.

What you'll do
  • Build and lead an exceptional product engineering team. Build a culture of ownership, ambition, and consistently strong execution.

  • Make Braintrust’s UI exceptional. Raise the bar across interaction design, performance, reliability, and product polish.

  • Own the technical direction of the product. Evolve our frontend architecture to support increasingly sophisticated workflows, larger datasets, and a rapidly growing customer base without sacrificing speed or quality.

  • Stay close to the product, customers, and code. Work alongside Product and Design to understand our users, shape the roadmap, and make the technical decisions that matter most.

  • Deliver ambitious product capabilities at scale. Lead the team building experiences like our prompt playground, prompt management and versioning, multiplayer human review, and LLM analysis across arbitrarily large datasets.

  • Build products at the frontier of how teams work with AI. From prompt experimentation and versioning to multiplayer review and large-scale LLM analysis, you’ll lead the engineering behind some of our hardest product problems.

Ideal candidate credentials
  • A proven engineering leader who has built, managed, and scaled high-performing teams, with a track record of recruiting exceptional engineers and developing future leaders.

  • Exceptional product judgment and UI craft. You know what separates a good product from a world-class one and care deeply about usability, performance, interaction design, and the details.

  • Deep technical expertise in modern web applications. You’ve built sophisticated, data-intensive products and are comfortable with technologies like TypeScript, React, SQL, and Next.js.

  • A builder's mindset. You can think about organizational strategy one minute and dig into an architecture decision the next.

  • High ownership and a bias toward action. You thrive in fast-moving environments, make pragmatic decisions, and know how to create teams that move quickly without sacrificing quality.

  • Experience with startups or AI is valuable, but not required. We’d especially value experience building LLM-powered products or leading teams through rapid growth.

Benefits include
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance

  • Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages

  • Flexible time off

  • Competitive salary and equity

  • Wifi & cellphone stipend

Equal opportunity

Braintrust is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Skills Required

  • Experience building, managing, and scaling high-performing engineering teams
  • Track record of recruiting exceptional engineers and developing future leaders
  • Exceptional product judgment and user interface craft
  • Expertise in usability, performance, interaction design, and product detail
  • Deep technical expertise in modern web applications
  • Experience building sophisticated, data-intensive products
  • Experience with TypeScript, React, SQL, and Next.js
  • Builder’s mindset with the ability to handle organizational strategy and architecture decisions
  • High ownership and bias toward action in fast-moving environments
  • Startup or AI experience
  • Experience building LLM-powered products or leading teams through rapid growth
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
241 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Braintrust is the first decentralized Web3 talent network that connects skilled, vetted knowledge workers with the world’s leading companies. The community that relies on Braintrust to find work are the same people who own and build it, ensuring the network always serves the needs of its users, instead of a centrally-controlled corporation. And because the community of knowledge workers and contributors earns ownership and control of Braintrust through its native BTRST token for their contributions to the network and its growth, new Talent and jobs have participated in the network at record speeds. Braintrust has over 700,000+ community members, with knowledge workers and project contributors across the world. Braintrust is trusted by hundreds of Fortune 1000 global enterprises including Nestlé, Porsche, Atlassian, Goldman Sachs, and Nike. For more information, visit: www.braintrust.com. BTRST is available on Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can trade, send, receive, or store BTRST in most Coinbase-supported regions. For more information on Braintrust and the BTRST token, read the “Braintrust: The Decentralized Talent Network” whitepaper.

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