--- title: 'Tech Lead Manager, Connectors at Glean' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/tech-lead-manager-connectors-glean-bengaluru-28916a19s2k1' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Tech Lead Manager, Connectors at Glean - **Company:** Glean - **Location:** Bengaluru, India - **Posted:** 2024-04-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gleanwork/jobs/4388073005 ## Job description About Glean: Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles. At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality. If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company. About the Role: Glean is looking for Tech Lead Managers who will pave the way for our hyper growth phase. With a robust product strategy anchored in our Assistant vision, we are entering an ambitious product and team growth phase. We need engineering leaders who will build world-class software systems, uphold our cultural values of being fast-paced and customer-driven, build a top-notch team, and ensure solid execution in a highly collaborative environment. As a Tech Lead Manager at Glean, you will be pivotal in leading our engineering team to build and enhance our cutting-edge platform. You will: - Lead and mentor a team of software engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable software solutions. - Drive the development and execution of engineering initiatives aligned with Glean's strategic objectives. - Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define product requirements, prioritize features, and ensure timely delivery. - Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering organization. - Champion best practices in software development, quality assurance, and project management to drive operational excellence. - Contribute to Glean’s technical vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with industry trends and customer needs. - Serve as a technical advisor to senior leadership, providing insights and recommendations on technology investments and initiatives. About you: - You have 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of leading high-performing teams. - You possess deep technical expertise in Design/Architecture and distributed systems. - You have strong leadership skills and a demonstrated ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve ambitious goals. - You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving innovation and leveraging technology to solve complex problems. - You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and can collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels. - You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and are comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving change. Location: - This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Bangalore office) Compensation & Benefits: Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits. We’re committed to building and sustaining a diverse, inclusive workplace. We strive to attract and retain people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we do not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race. ## #LI-HYBRID AI-First Mindset at Glean: At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required. 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By clicking “Submit Application,” I confirm that I have read the Global Data Privacy Notice and the [Applicant Arbitration Agreement](https://www.glean.com/arbitrationagreement), and I agree to the terms. ## About Glean ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Glean provides an AI-powered Work AI platform that connects to an enterprise's data to help employees find answers, generate content, and automate work. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series E) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, USA - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Arvind Jain, Vishwanath T R, Tony Gentilcore, Piyush Prahladka ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Enterprise AI / Work AI / Knowledge Management - **Target Customers**: B2B, Enterprise (mid-market to large enterprises) - **Mission/Purpose**: To make work more productive and fulfilling by giving every employee an AI assistant that understands their company's unique context, data, and permissions. ## Products & Services - **Glean Assistant**: An AI-powered chatbot that answers questions, generates content, and takes actions based on a company's internal knowledge, with full permission awareness. - **Glean Agents**: A horizontal agent platform that allows enterprises to build, deploy, and manage dozens of custom AI agents for automating workflows across departments. - **Glean Search**: Enterprise-grade, AI-powered search that indexes and surfaces information from across all connected SaaS tools (Slack, Google Drive, Salesforce, etc.). - **Glean Protect**: A security and governance layer that ensures AI outputs are permission-aware, explainable, and compliant with enterprise security standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 42001, etc.). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (latest Series E at $260M in Sept 2024). - **Total Funding**: $768.2M across 5 rounds (Series A through E). - **Key Metric (Revenue)**: Estimated annual revenue of $120M. - **Key Metric (Funding)**: $768.2M total funding. - **Notable Investors**: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 65.9% year-over-year to 1,138 employees. - Key enterprise customers include Booking.com, Zillow, Ericsson, and TIME. - Claims 93% enterprise adoption in under 2 years and <6 months to ROI. - Active job postings at 166, up 80.4% year-over-year. ## Competitive Advantages - **Enterprise-first architecture**: Built from day one with permission-aware search and data governance, making it suitable for compliance-heavy environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 42001, TX-RAMP). - **Deep integrations**: Connects to 100+ enterprise SaaS tools, providing a unified knowledge layer. - **Model flexibility**: Supports 35+ unique LLMs, allowing customers to choose the best model for each task and avoid vendor lock-in. - **Efficiency**: Claims a 30% reduction in token usage compared to off-the-shelf MCP tools, lowering the cost to scale AI. - **Strong talent DNA**: Founders are ex-Google (Search, Maps, YouTube) and ex-Rubrik engineers. The company has hired heavily from Google (58), Snowflake (32), and Amazon Web Services (22). ## Strategic Focus - **Horizontal Agent Platform**: Expanding beyond search and assistant to become the platform for building and managing enterprise-wide AI agents. - **On-Premises Deployment**: Partnering with Dell Technologies to deliver AI agents and enterprise search to on-premises environments. - **Open Interoperability**: Partnering with Snowflake to bring structured data insights into the AI assistant. - **Global Expansion**: Growing presence in India (Bangalore), Canada, UK, Australia, and Japan. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values are "Make it customer-driven," "Make it happen," "Make it better," and "Make it together." Emphasizes transparency, ownership, and feedback. - **Work Model**: Hybrid – most teams are in the office four days a week and work from home for the remaining day. - **Perks**: Flexible PTO, company-wide winter break shutdown, free daily lunch, competitive stock options, 401(k), and comprehensive medical/dental/vision coverage. - **Learning & Development**: Offers a learning stipend for professional growth. - **Engineering Culture**: Strong focus on AI/ML, infrastructure, and backend engineering. High concentration of talent from top tech companies (Google, Snowflake, Rubrik). - **Growth Trajectory**: Rapidly scaling company (65% headcount growth YoY) with significant funding, providing ample opportunity for career advancement and impact. ## Sources 1. [glean.com](https://www.glean.com/) 2. [glean.com/about](https://www.glean.com/about) 3. [glean.com/careers](https://www.glean.com/careers) 4. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gleanwork) 5. 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