Tech Lead Manager

Qualified is the PipelineAI platform for B2B companies around the world. With Piper the AI SDR, Qualified offers a whole new way to grow inbound pipeline with one powerful platform. Piper operates across both the website and email, working to engage website visitors, capture leads, and convert buyers into pipeline around the clock. Hundreds of the world’s leading brands—including Crunchbase, Asana, Box, and Grubhub—choose Qualified to increase lead conversions, generate more meetings, and improve efficiency within their inbound pipeline motion.

Overview

We’re looking for a Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to lead a team of talented engineers while remaining deeply hands-on with our technology. This is a hybrid role for someone who thrives in both code and coaching, and is equally energized by building systems and growing the people who build them.

As a TLM, you’ll own delivery for a key area of our product, guide the technical roadmap, and ensure your team is operating at a high level. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to bring clarity, accountability, and momentum to our most important initiatives. If you’re excited about leading with empathy, making smart architectural bets, and scaling a high-performance engineering culture, we’d love to talk.

What You’ll Do

Lead a Small but Mighty Team: Manage 4-7 engineers, providing mentorship, feedback, and career growth while maintaining high delivery standards.

Stay Technical: Architect systems, review code, and contribute directly to features, infrastructure, or tools when it makes sense to unblock the team or accelerate progress.

Drive Clarity and Execution: Translate business goals into actionable plans. Lead sprint planning, scope work, and remove obstacles to keep projects moving.

Own Technical Direction: Set the bar for quality, scalability, and maintainability. Bring strong opinions about engineering best practices while remaining open to better ideas.

Foster Team Health: Create a team culture grounded in trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Support work-life balance while upholding high-impact delivery.

What We’re Looking For

6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time as a technical lead or team lead.

1+ years of formal people management experience (or strong mentorship track record with a desire to grow in management).

A builder’s mindset: experience delivering high-impact projects end-to-end, with deep ownership of quality and outcomes.

Strong technical foundation in modern backend or full-stack development (e.g., Ruby, Go, TypeScript).

Excellent communicator: able to drive alignment across engineers, product managers, and stakeholders.

Experience fostering inclusive, growth-oriented team environments where people do their best work.

Why Join Qualified

High-Leverage Role: You’ll be a force multiplier for both product delivery and engineering team growth.

Grow With Us: Work closely with senior leadership in a role designed to evolve into deeper technical leadership or people management.

Modern Stack: Build on top of a thoughtfully architected platform using Kubernetes, CDK, Rails, and LLMs to deliver real customer value.

If you’re a technical leader looking for your next challenge where you can write code one hour and unblock a teammate the next, we’d love to hear from you.

About Qualified

Qualified is the AI pipeline generation platform for revenue teams that use Salesforce. Headquartered in San Francisco, Qualified delivers pipeline generation at scale with AI and automation for thousands of customers like Autodesk, Blackbaud, and Epson. Led by former Salesforce CMO Kraig Swensrud and former Salesforce Product SVP Sean Whiteley, Qualified boasts 900+ 5-star reviews on G2 and is ranked #1 on the Salesforce AppExchange. Qualified is funded by Sapphire, Tiger Global, Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures.

One Team

We’re all in this together with a shared goal: grow the business and each other. Work as a team, win as a team. Collaborate and strategize across departments to deliver A+ work. We are bold thought leaders that value creating a sense of belonging for all and celebrating our wins, big or small.

Customer Obsessed

Prioritize the customer above everything else. Build a product that our customers love. Establish ourselves as their trusted advisor and do “Whatever it takes” to make them successful. Prove the ROI. Only when our customers win do we win.

Think Big & Move Fast

We’re defining a new category and we have fierce competition. Fast-paced innovation is the name of the game. We look forward. We reimagine. We throw out new ideas. We test things. We move quickly. We challenge the norm. We don’t settle for status quo.

On the heels of their Series C financing, Qualified is looking to grow the team so that they can do even more, even faster; they’re focused on delivering our customers more innovation, additional services, an expanded product portfolio, and even deeper ties into the Salesforce CRM platform. Qualified is looking for folks that are fired up about joining a fast-paced, fast-growing company that is doing big things.

Diversity & Inclusion

Qualified is committed to bringing together individuals from different backgrounds and perspectives. We strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and do great work together.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status.