Software Engineering Manager - Agentic AI

About air Slate

air Slate is a global SaaS technology company that develops no-code workflow automation, electronic signature, and document management solutions. Our award‑winning products – Sign Now, pdf Filler, Doc Hub, alta

Flow, Instapage, and US Legal Forms – serve over hundreds of millions of users and more than one million customers worldwide, helping organizations of every size digitize processes, improve efficiency, and transform how they work.

We are a passionate and ambitious team of 140+ people on a mission to succeed with our award‑winning signature solution – Sign Now. Sign Now empowers over 28 million people at companies across the world to move fast with everything they need to send and eSign their documents. Increase productivity with document workflows, impress customers, and save money while maximizing ROI with Sign Now.

And now, we are looking for a Software Engineering Manager – Agentic QE who is prepared to contribute to the next chapter of our company's growth.

You came up through software engineering, moved into automation and quality, and have been the de‑facto quality authority on your team before you had the title. You think in systems, you stay hands‑on, and you're genuinely excited about what agentic AI means for how software gets built and validated. This role is for you.

As Software Engineering Manager – Agentic QE, you will lead a team of 6–10 Automation Quality Engineers, own our existing automation estate, and drive a deliberate transition from deterministic pipelines toward autonomous test agents.

• Define quality architecture: frameworks, toolchain, and the roadmap from traditional automation to agentic solutions — quality built into the system, not bolted on at the end
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 6–10 AQEs, running hands‑on pilots alongside them as the team evolves
• Own and evolve the existing test automation framework (Java/JS Selenium Playwright) — refactor what needs it, retire what doesn't
• Co‑design deterministic and LLM‑assisted agent workflows with engineering leaders, with clear human‑in‑the‑loop governance where it matters
• Build observability and reporting tooling: coverage dashboards, flakiness detection, CI quality gates — visibility that engineers actually trust
• Validate AI‑powered product features: behavioral testing, non‑deterministic regression, and output evaluation for the product's own agentic capabilities
• Build internal tooling that makes the broader engineering org faster and more quality‑conscious, not just the QE team

• 7+ years in software engineering with a clear arc toward quality leadership — you came from engineering, not QA management
• 5+ years hands‑on with Java and/or JavaScript/Type Script, deep enough to design novel solutions, not just configure existing ones
• 3+ years directly managing engineers: hiring, performance, and technical direction — not matrix influence or team lead coordination
• Proven track record of driving a quality or engineering transformation top‑down: you set the direction, got buy‑in, and shipped an org‑wide program
• Hands‑on experience building agentic or LLM‑assisted systems in production — pipelines you wrote, not tools you evaluated
• Solid automation architecture skills: you design frameworks and coding pipelines, not just write tests
• Familiarity with agentic/LLM concepts: evaluating model outputs, handling non‑determinism, agent orchestration patterns
• CI/CD integration, shift‑left thinking, and quality‑by‑design fluency
• English B2+

• Background in backend or systems engineering before moving into quality leadership
• Experience transitioning a team away from legacy QA processes toward engineering‑first quality practices
• Exposure to CI‑integrated AI pipelines that go from spec to test implementation, not just test case generation

The right person for this role doesn't come from QA management. They come from engineering. They've been the de‑facto quality authority on their team before having the title. They can whiteboard quality architecture with platform engineers, drive an agentic pilot with their team the next day, and…