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Granola is an AI notepad for meeting-heavy professionals, combining transcription with flexible LLM workflows on the desktop. The company is a small, fast-moving team in London with a full-stack engineering culture emphasizing craft, speed, and autonomy.
You will serve as the operational engine and talent multiplier for the engineering team. This is neither a traditional corporate management role nor a hands-on technical lead position. Your primary focus is supporting engineers, nurturing career growth, creating high-trust team dynamics, and maintaining exceptional product momentum.
Key responsibilities include:
- People & Coaching: Conduct regular 1:1s, provide direct actionable feedback, and guide engineers through career growth, performance, and skill development in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Delivery & Execution: Own squad momentum and delivery rhythm. Work closely with product and design to break down projects, manage trade-offs, remove friction, and maintain fast, predictable shipping cycles.
- Process & Pragmatism: Implement minimal, pragmatic process to keep teams aligned and unblocked while explicitly avoiding bureaucracy or rigid frameworks.
- Team Health & Culture: Build an environment of high accountability, trust, and autonomy. Foster morale, craftsmanship, and ownership.
- Hiring & Scaling: Partner with Talent and Leadership to recruit, interview, and onboard high-bar engineering talent as the team scales.
The company emphasizes in-person collaboration and operates from a bright, spacious office at Old Street five days per week. Relocation assistance is available for candidates relocating to London. Compensation is positioned slightly above market on salary and above market on equity.
Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams in fast-moving, high-bar product startups or tech companies
- Strong execution instinct: ability to scope features, identify bottlenecks, and maintain delivery momentum without sacrificing quality
- Genuine passion for developing people, active listening, and creating conditions where engineers feel empowered
- Software engineering background or strong technical foundation to understand architectural trade-offs and hold high-signal technical conversations
- Comfort with ambiguity, willingness to handle operational tasks, and ability to adapt quickly as priorities evolve
