Y Combinator Engineering Manager - Customer Experience AI
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Coinbase’s Consumer Engagement and Experience (CEE) Surfaces team owns the front door to support for millions of customers: help.coinbase.com, social support, and Athena, the knowledge platform used by CX agents. We are rebuilding these experiences to be AI-native, with retrieval, generation, and agentic resolution at the core.
We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead and scale the team responsible for these surfaces. You’ll set technical strategy and 12-month direction for AI-assisted self-service support, improving automated resolution quality and customer satisfaction while meeting Coinbase’s standards for safety, privacy, reliability, and cost.
What you’ll do
- Lead a high-ownership engineering team building Help Center, social support, and agent knowledge experiences.
- Own end-to-end delivery of self-service discovery, conversational and agentic resolution, intelligent routing, escalation, and human handoff.
- Define architecture for secure, reliable, scalable systems spanning search, knowledge retrieval, chat orchestration, CRM, and ticketing integrations.
- Establish evaluation harnesses, quality metrics, feedback loops, and safeguards for accuracy, groundedness, privacy, and safety.
- Partner with Product, Design, CX Operations, Data, Compliance, Legal, Privacy, and Security on roadmaps, metrics, and execution.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy options and operationalize third-party solutions.
- Break complex initiatives into milestones and drive iterative delivery through experiments, A/B tests, and measured rollouts.
- Own SLAs, SLOs, monitoring, incident response, and operational readiness.
- Coach, develop, hire, and retain exceptional engineers while fostering an inclusive, collaborative culture.
- Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering customer-facing products or platforms.
- 3+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and team health.
- Production experience with LLM-powered systems, such as RAG, agentic workflows, or tool/function calling, and a strong understanding of quality and safety measurement.
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale, including reliability, security, performance, and incident response.
- Strong technical judgment, execution skills, product sensibility, and ability to create structure in ambiguous environments.
- Experience partnering across technical and non-technical teams.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
- Experience with customer support, knowledge search, or AI-assisted customer experiences.
- Experience with shared infrastructure, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Terraform, CircleCI, or Buildkite.
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL, gRPC, GraphQL, Kafka, or message queues.
- Proficiency in Ruby or Go, or ability to ramp quickly.
Job ID - P75782
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