Engineering Manager, Automations

Retool is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead its Automation team, the team building the next generation of workflows, integrations, and AI-driven agents. The team will expand Retool beyond internal apps into end-to-end process orchestration, helping customers automate everything from backend operations to complex workflows. The role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, developer experience, and applied AI, and involves building execution infrastructure and product experiences that make automated systems useful, reliable, and trustworthy in production. The position is based in San Francisco, United States, and is hybrid.

Responsibilities

Lead a fullstack team building Retool's automation capabilities, including workflows, integrations, and AI-driven agents; Partner with Product and Design to define the team's strategy and roadmap, connecting technical investments to customer needs and business impact; Guide technical design and architecture across workflow execution, state management, service integrations, observability, and system reliability; Help shape how AI agents operate in production, including autonomous execution, human oversight, debugging, and recovery when things go wrong; Drive execution from scoping through launch and iteration, making tradeoffs, resolving dependencies, and balancing experimentation with reliable delivery; Work directly with customers and go-to-market partners to understand complex business processes and translate them into reusable automation capabilities; Support engineers through continuous feedback, coaching, growth opportunities, and clear performance expectations; Build processes that improve delivery and cross-team collaboration, and partner with Recruiting to grow a diverse team of exceptional engineers

Requirements

2+ years of experience successfully leading and managing engineering teams; Strong technical judgment, with the ability to navigate a codebase and engage deeply in design and architecture decisions; A track record of setting technical direction and delivering complex systems, ideally involving workflows, distributed systems, integrations, or developer-facing products; Strong product instincts, connecting technical decisions to customer needs and identifying capabilities that serve multiple use cases; A point of view on AI-driven automation and what it takes to make intelligent systems useful and dependable in production; Sound judgment when balancing delivery speed, system reliability, and long-term maintainability; Experience coaching engineers, managing performance, and recruiting and building strong teams; A propensity to operate as a business owner, caring deeply about customers, product, and team; Comfort navigating ambiguity, making decisions with incomplete information, and holding yourself and others accountable; Clear, direct communication and the ability to partner effectively across engineering, product, design, and go-to-market teams

Benefits

Comprehensive benefit plan including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k); Generous benefits to all employees; Additional compensation in the form of equity and/or commission, dependent on the position offered