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title: 'Senior Engineering Manager at Nectar'
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# Senior Engineering Manager at Nectar

- **Company:** Nectar
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Compensation:** $250k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nectar-social/93868160-e676-4add-8bd9-a2ea39e37512

## Job description

## ABOUT US

We're living through a fundamental shift in how people discover, evaluate, and purchase products. The next generation doesn't respond to traditional marketing -- they build relationships with brands through authentic social interactions, seek recommendations from communities they trust, and expect personalized experiences that feel human, not corporate.

At Nectar Social, we're building the AI-native social operating system that enables this new era of commerce. We believe every social interaction should deepen the relationship between brands and their communities while creating genuine value for both sides.

Founded by ex-Meta product and engineering leaders, we've raised over $30M in total capital from investors including GV and True Ventures. We work with brands like Oura Health, Caraway, e.l.f. Cosmetics, Kosas, OLIPOP, and many more. We're building the future of social commerce -- where community, conversation, and commerce converge.

## The Role

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who operates with a strong product mindset to lead, support, and scale our core engineering teams. Our engineering organization includes groups focused on customer-facing product development as well as a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) function that moves fast across the full stack on high-priority enterprise initiatives. In this role, you will manage software engineers and tech leads building high-throughput systems that ingest large volumes of social data, run real-time AI agents, and deliver insights through analytics and automation.

This is a senior management role that bridges technical execution, team development, and product strategy. You will be responsible for fostering a high-performing engineering culture, driving delivery excellence, and helping guide your teams as our engineering organization scales from ~50 people into our next phase of growth.

## What You'll Be Doing

- Team Leadership & People Management: Directly manage, mentor, and grow a team of Software Engineers and Tech Leads. Conduct regular 1:1s, support career progression, and foster an inclusive, high-performance engineering culture.
- Product & Strategic Execution: Partner closely with Product Managers, Designers, and engineering leadership to translate product roadmaps into executable engineering plans, manage capacity, and ensure predictable project delivery.
- Technical Quality & Architecture: Oversee technical design and code quality within your teams. Guide architectural trade-off decisions for high-volume real-time data systems and AI agentic workflows without needing to write production code daily.
- Delivery Excellence & Process: Establish and refine agile practices, sprint planning, and operational processes. Track delivery velocity, system reliability, and code quality metrics to continuously improve team performance.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work alongside Customer Success and Sales to understand customer pain points and ensure technical initiatives deliver strong business value.
- Hiring & Team Building: Partner with Talent Acquisition to recruit, interview, and onboard exceptional engineering talent to expand your teams.

## What We're Looking For

- Experience Level: 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years of direct people management experience leading software engineering teams.
- Team Growth & Development: Track record of recruiting, onboarding, and developing high-performing engineers and tech leads.
- Product & Business Acumen: Ability to align technical execution with product goals, break down complex requirements into milestones, and manage team bandwidth effectively.
- Technical Background: Solid technical background in software development to meaningfully evaluate architectural designs, guide technical decisions, and hold teams to high engineering standards.
- Execution & Process: Proven experience improving team delivery cadences, code review practices, and incident response processes in fast-paced environments.
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical discussions across teams.

Bonus Points

- Domain Expertise: Experience managing engineering teams in B2B SaaS, social data platforms, developer tools, or marketing technology, or a passion for working in the social space, empowering brands to work with creators and connect with their communities.
- AI & Data Infrastructure: Familiarity with teams building or deploying AI-powered systems, real-time analytics platforms, or agentic frameworks.
- Tech Stack Alignment: Familiarity with modern cloud and data stacks such as AWS, TypeScript/React, Postgres, and ClickHouse.
- Cross-Platform Experience: Experience overseeing engineering teams working across both web and native mobile applications.

## About Nectar

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nectar builds an AI-powered social operating system that automates community management, social listening, and commerce – turning organic social engagement into measurable revenue.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup) – Latest round: $30M Series A (May 2026, per PitchBook); prior seed rounds totaling $12.6M (led by Google Ventures and True Ventures).
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Misbah Uraizee (CEO) and Farah Uraizee (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Social Commerce, Marketing Technology (MarTech), Artificial Intelligence / Agentic Automation
- **Target customers**: B2B – disruptor brands and enterprise ecommerce/retail companies (e.g., e.l.f. Beauty, Liquid Death)
- **Mission/purpose**: To bridge community engagement with revenue, enabling brands to scale authentic relationships through AI agents.

## Products & Services
- **Nectar AI Agents**: Autonomous agents that engage one-on-one across social channels (DMs, comments, threads, stories) – handling replies, product recommendations, giveaways, and opt-ins.
- **Social Listening & Intelligence**: Cross-platform listening that captures 100% of brand chatter (including untagged mentions, video frames, audio) and surfaces trends, sentiment, and buying signals 48 hours faster than legacy tools.
- **Content Intelligence**: Post-level performance analytics, competitive benchmarking, and earned media value (EMV) tracking – all in one dashboard.
- **Influencer & Creator Management**: AI-powered scoring to identify rising creators, track competitor wins, and manage influencer outreach.
- **CRM & Revenue Attribution**: Closed-loop attribution that ties social conversations to sales, LTV, and customer journeys – integrates with Klaviyo, Attentive, and downstream retargeting platforms.
- **Brand Voice Studio**: Customizable tone calibration, approval workflows, and brand-safety guardrails to keep AI interactions on-brand.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Total funding: $30M (Series A, May 2026) + $12.6M (prior seed rounds)
  - Attributed $100M in revenue across customer conversations (Menlo Ventures, 2026)
  - 10M+ autonomous conversations per week (up 5x in three months)
  - 50M users engaged across customer brands
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Google Ventures, True Ventures, Menlo Ventures (led Series A); official data partnerships with Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, X.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 185.7% YoY (52 employees as of mid-2026)
  - Operating in 6 countries (US, Pakistan, UK, Philippines, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ukraine)
  - 22 active job postings (up 1000% YoY)
  - Customers include e.l.f. Beauty, Liquid Death – fast-growing disruptor brands

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ex-Meta/Instagram/Twitter founding team** who understand social platforms from the inside.
- **Official API partnerships** with major social networks – enabling real-time access to all conversations, not just tagged mentions.
- **Closed-loop revenue attribution** – a unique ability to tie social interactions directly to purchases, differentiating from pure listening or engagement tools.
- **Brand voice control** with human-in-the-loop validation, ensuring AI agents sound exactly like the brand’s best community manager.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale autonomous community management** – moving from manual moderation to AI-driven, real-time engagement across all channels.
- **Expand enterprise adoption** – targeting large ecommerce and retail brands with SOC 2 Type II compliance, SSO, and role-based access.
- **Deepen integrations** – with CRM, email/SMS marketing (Klaviyo, Attentive), and analytics platforms to close the loop from social signal to purchase.
- **Continue building the "agentic marketing system"** – collapsing the traditional stack of social intelligence, community, influencer, CX, and analytics into one platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Hyper-growth environment**: 185% headcount growth YoY, fresh Series A funding, and a product already at meaningful scale (10M+ conversations/week).
- **Remote-first culture**: Team spans 6 countries (US, Pakistan, UK, Philippines, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ukraine); strong remote collaboration practices.
- **Engineering-led DNA**: 33% of employees are in technical roles; founders are former Meta/Instagram engineers.
- **Early-stage impact**: Opportunity to shape product and culture from the ground up – 22 open roles across engineering, sales, marketing, and design.
- **Notable perks**: SOC 2 Type II compliance from day one, premium support, and a "brand voice studio" that gives engineers a direct line to customer experience.
- **Career growth**: Fast promotion cycles typical of high-growth startups; alumni have gone to Amazon, True Ventures, and other top tech companies.

## Sources
1. [nectarsocial.com](https://www.nectarsocial.com/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/nectar-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nectar-ai)
3. [pitchbook.com/profiles/company/538850-89](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/538850-89)
4. [menlovc.com/perspective/nectar-social-rewriting-the-modern-marketing-playbook](https://menlovc.com/perspective/nectar-social-rewriting-the-modern-marketing-playbook/)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/nectar-social](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nectar-social)

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