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# Engineering Manager, Console Team (Product-Led Growth Strategy) at Deepgram

- **Company:** Deepgram
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $185k–$260k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/deepgram/e90eefc1-88ec-4d3c-948b-b21c57ef6b18/application

**Skills:** Software Architecture, Web Application Development, Backend Engineering, API Design, LLM Integration, Agentic AI, Self-Serve Platforms, Rust, Elm, Postgres, GPU Optimization, Scaled Databases, MCP Servers, Function-calling Pipelines, Voice Assistant SDKs

> Lead a team of software engineers building web applications, agentic tooling, and self-serve products for Deepgram's voice AI platform. Drive product-led growth by optimizing developer experience, managing technical strategy, and collaborating with product and marketing teams to expand the console and product playgr...

## Job description

## COMPANY OVERVIEW

Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are ‘Powered by Deepgram’, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box. Deepgram’s voice-native foundation models are accessed through cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software, with unmatched accuracy, low latency, and cost efficiency. Backed by a recent Series C led by leading global investors and strategic partners, Deepgram has processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.

## COMPANY OPERATING RHYTHM

At Deepgram, we expect an AI-first mindset—AI use and comfort aren’t optional, they’re core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance.

Every team member who works at Deepgram is expected to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and even build your own into your everyday work. We measure how effectively AI is applied to deliver results, and consistent, creative use of the latest AI capabilities is key to success here. Candidates should be comfortable adopting new models and modes quickly, integrating AI into their workflows, and continuously pushing the boundaries of what these technologies can do.

Additionally, we move at the pace of AI. Change is rapid, and you can expect your day-to-day work to evolve just as quickly. This may not be the right role if you’re not excited to experiment, adapt, think on your feet, and learn constantly, or if you’re seeking something highly prescriptive with a traditional 9-to-5.

## OPPORTUNITY

Deepgram is looking for an Engineering Manager to help drive our product-led growth strategy. Deepgram is the leader in developer-friendly building blocks for language AI—real-time transcription, voice agents, and audio intelligence at scale. As such, this role directly impacts the customer's first impressions of Deepgram's products and uniquely influences their buying decisions. In this role, you will lead a team of frontend and backend engineers who work on our self-serve products like Console, and Product Playground. By partnering closely with Product, Sales, and Marketing, you will execute on the next-generation vision for our self-service platform.

In the current wave of AI-native development, developer experience is the product. The best infrastructure wins by being the easiest to trust.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Lead a team of multi-disciplined software engineers to build our web applications, agentic tooling integrations (MCP servers, SDK experiences), and account management (authorization, billing, analytics) services
- Work closely with the rest of the leadership and product management team on product strategy and roadmap refinement, with a focus on AI-native developer experience
- Oversee technical design, task decomposition, and daily standups to ensure the team is executing on schedule
- Lead the creation of features and product releases by being closely involved with the product development, design, and review—including AI agent playground environments and LLM-powered developer tooling
- Drive the self-serve growth engine: activation funnels, in-product upgrade flows, and PLG experimentation and self serve deployments.
- Work with other team leads from across the product organization on cross-functional projects, help identify the critical paths, and resolve dependencies
- Hold regular 1-on-1s with direct reports, help them navigate challenges, and coach them for their career development

## YOU'LL LOVE THIS ROLE IF YOU

- Have experience working in early stage startups—from building and scaling to going through fundraising
- Have great communication and leadership skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Have strong practical experience with software architecture and implementation, plus the ability to engage with an engineering team to help build and scale the existing infrastructure
- Think about LLMs, agents, and model APIs as first-class product primitives—not just add-ons
- Have familiarity with hybrid cloud models (bare-metal datacenters and cloud service providers) and scaled databases
- Have interest in relevant technologies (Rust, LLM APIs, MCP/agent tooling, Elm, Postgres, GPUs, etc.) and a willingness to challenge common assumptions about the future trajectories of technology

## IT'S IMPORTANT TO US THAT YOU HAVE

- A strong technical background building world class user-facing applications
- Proven management and leadership experience
- The ability to drive technical decisions in a scalable and thoughtful manner
- Passion about good engineering practices, emerging technologies, and improving processes
- A consistent record of mentoring and coaching team members
- A passion for navigating the team through the real-world constraints of a startup: how to build quickly, iterate frequently, and run experiments

## IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAD

- Experience building AI-powered developer tooling—playgrounds, SDK experiences, interactive docs, or evaluation UIs for ML models
- Experience shipping agentic or voice AI integrations—MCP servers, function-calling pipelines, voice assistant SDKs
- Experience driving PLG at a developer-tools company—activation experiments, usage-based pricing instrumentation, upgrade flows
- Experience managing through a fundraising cycle
- An opinionated approach to partnering with product and making timely deliveries

Notice: We're aware of individuals impersonating Deepgram recruiters. All legitimate Deepgram recruiting communication comes from an @deepgram.com http://deepgram.com email address. If you've received a message claiming to be Deepgram, please forward it to careers@deepgram.com.

## About Deepgram

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Deepgram is a foundational AI company building real-time voice AI infrastructure for developers and enterprises to power speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agent applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, Unicorn status)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (remote-first, distributed across 20+ states and 5+ countries)
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Scott Stephenson (CEO), Adam Sypniewski, Noah Shutty

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Voice AI / Artificial Intelligence / Speech Recognition
- **Target customers**: Developers, product teams, enterprises, and platforms embedding voice AI (B2B, B2D)
- **Mission statement**: To transform the way humans interact with machines by unlocking the productivity of the world through voice technology

## Products & Services
- **Speech-to-Text (STT)**: Real-time and batch transcription with models like Nova-3 (world’s most accurate real-time STT) and Flux Multilingual (first conversational STT in 10 languages). Available via cloud or self-hosted. [deepgram.com](https://deepgram.com/)
- **Text-to-Speech (TTS)**: Aura-2, professional-grade enterprise TTS for natural voice output. [deepgram.com](https://deepgram.com/)
- **Voice Agent API**: A unified API that combines STT, TTS, and LLM orchestration into a single endpoint, reducing complexity, latency, and cost for building conversational AI agents. [deepgram.com](https://deepgram.com/)
- **Custom Models**: Ability to train custom speech models for unique use cases and domain-specific vocabulary. [deepgram.com](https://deepgram.com/)
- **Saga (Voice OS)**: An operating system for voice applications, announced as a platform-level offering. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepgram)
- **Deepgram for Restaurants**: Vertical solution for drive-thru and restaurant voice ordering (95%+ containment), powered by the acquisition of OfOne. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepgram)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.3 billion unicorn status (as of Series C in 2024) [deepgram.com](https://deepgram.com/about)
- **Key Metric**: $130 million in Series C funding (total raised: ~$202M+ including $72M Series B) [deepgram.com](https://deepgram.com/about)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator, NVIDIA (proud partner), with Series C led by prominent venture firms [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/deepgram)
- **Growth Signals**: Processed 50,000+ years of audio and 1 trillion+ words; trusted by 200,000+ developers and 1,300+ organizations; acquired OfOne for restaurant voice AI; launched Flux Multilingual, Nova-3, Aura-2, and Saga in rapid succession [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepgram)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Foundational AI moat**: Deepgram is a research-driven company that builds its own end-to-end deep learning models (not wrappers), giving them control over accuracy, latency, and cost.
- **Unified API advantage**: A single Voice Agent API that replaces the need to stitch together separate STT, TTS, and LLM components—reducing complexity and latency.
- **Scale and experience**: The most experienced voice AI platform in the world, having processed the largest volume of voice data (50,000+ years of audio).
- **Enterprise-grade reliability**: Offers on-premise/self-hosted deployment options for compliance-heavy industries (healthcare, finance, legal).
- **NVIDIA partnership**: Access to scalable GPU infrastructure for training and inference, differentiating them from competitors.

## Strategic Focus
- **Voice AI Economy leadership**: Positioning Deepgram as the infrastructure layer for the emerging "trillion-dollar Voice AI economy."
- **Multilingual expansion**: Launching Flux Multilingual to capture global markets beyond English.
- **Vertical industry penetration**: Moving beyond horizontal API into vertical solutions (restaurants via OfOne acquisition, medical transcription).
- **Agentic AI**: Doubling down on Voice Agent API and autonomous voice agents as the next growth vector.
- **Platform expansion**: Building Saga (Voice OS) to become the operating system for all voice applications.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Deepgram is a remote-first company with employees across 20+ states in the US and 5+ countries. They offer freedom and flexibility to work from anywhere. [deepgram.com](https://deepgram.com/careers)
- **Strong benefits package**: Medical, dental, vision insurance; mental health support; unlimited PTO; 12 paid US holidays; parental leave; 401(k) with company match; wellness stipend; learning/education stipend; quarterly productivity stipend; one-time office upgrade stipend. [deepgram.com](https://deepgram.com/careers)
- **Inclusive environment**: Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and a stated commitment to "every voice, heard and understood." [deepgram.com](https://deepgram.com/careers)
- **Annual offsites**: While remote-first, the company convenes annually for in-person offsites to foster collaboration and connection. [deepgram.com](https://deepgram.com/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: Values include "be curious," "grow together," "do the right thing," "think smart, act fast," and "put the customer first." The culture is described as self-motivated, positive, passionate, and competitive. [deepgram.com](https://deepgram.com/careers)
- **Research-driven environment**: Deepgram was founded by physicists and maintains a strong research team (Research Scientist, Research Engineer roles), offering the chance to work on cutting-edge AI. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/deepgram)
- **Salary transparency**: Publicly lists salary ranges for roles (e.g., Research Scientist $150K-$250K, SDR $50K-$60K), indicating compensation transparency. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/deepgram)

## Sources
1. [deepgram.com - Careers Page](https://deepgram.com/careers)
2. [deepgram.com - Product Page](https://deepgram.com/)
3. [deepgram.com - About Page](https://deepgram.com/about)
4. [ycombinator.com - Deepgram Profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/deepgram)
5. [linkedin.com - Deepgram Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepgram)

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