Job Description
About the role:
We are looking for a Senior Technical Lead Manager (Sr. TLM) to lead the engineering team responsible for Thought Spot’s Liveboard team, our flagship interactive analytics experience.
Liveboards power the core of how users consume insights: real-time visualisations, drill-downs, interactive queries, KPIs, AI-assisted recommendations, and collaborative actions. You will drive the technical roadmap, mentor engineers, and deliver a scalable, performant, and intuitive analytics experience for thousands of enterprise users.
This is a hands-on leadership role: ~60% technical contribution (architecture, design reviews, prototyping, performance tuning) and ~40% people leadership (coaching, execution, quality, cross-functional collaboration).
What you will do:
Technical Leadership:
- Own the architecture, scalability, and performance of the Liveboard platform, front-end, service layer, and query integration.
- Lead design reviews, drive engineering best practices, and ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
- Partner closely with Product to define the technical vision for Liveboard interactivity, performance optimisations, caching, personalisation, and AI-driven insights.
- Guide the team through complex refactors and migrations (e.g., visualisation library updates, Liveboard metadata changes, caching strategies).
- Drive observability, reliability, SLO/SLA definitions, and performance instrumentation for Liveboard usage patterns.
- Collaborate with AI/LLM teams to integrate intelligent insight generation, natural language interactions, and smart recommendations.
Execution & Delivery:
- Lead a team of engineers in delivering capabilities across multiple releases with predictable, high-quality execution.
- Break down ambiguous feature requirements into technical plans, milestones, and deliverable work-streams.
- Improve iteration velocity through better tooling, CI/CD, testing automation, and standardisation.
- Work closely with SRE to ensure smooth releases, on-call quality, incident analysis, and reliability improvements.
People Leadership:
- Mentor, coach, and grow engineers; support career development through feedback, performance discussions, and empowerment.
- Create a high-performing engineering culture anchored on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders (Product, Design, QA, SRE, Customer Success) to align priorities and remove execution blockers.
What you will bring:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 2–4 years in a technical leadership/management role.
- Strong front-end engineering expertise: Java Script, Type Script, React, performance optimisation, visualisation frameworks.
- Solid backend/service fundamentals with experience in distributed systems, REST/Graph QL, caching, and performance patterns.
- Deep experience building complex data/analytics products or consumer-grade interactive UIs.
- Ability to lead architecture discussions, make technical decisions, and balance short-term vs. long-term trade-offs.
- Proven track record of mentoring engineers, driving execution, and leading teams through technical complexity.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with analytics, BI, or data visualisation products.
- Background integrating AI/LLM-based features or building intelligent UX workflows.
- Familiarity with Highcharts, D3, or custom charting libraries.
- Experience driving reliability, monitoring, and performance optimization in large-scale Saa S.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced product organization with cross-functional influence.
Hybrid Work at Thought Spot: This office-assigned role is available as a hybrid position. Spotters assigned to an office are encouraged to experience the energy of their local office with an in-office requirement of at least three days per week. This approach balances the benefits of in-person collaboration and peer learning with the flexibility needed by individuals and teams.
We are looking for a Senior Technical Lead Manager (Sr. TLM) to lead the engineering team responsible for Thought Spot’s Liveboard team, our flagship interactive analytics experience.
Liveboards power the core of how users consume insights: real-time visualisations, drill-downs, interactive queries, KPIs, AI-assisted recommendations, and collaborative actions. You will drive the technical roadmap, mentor engineers, and deliver a scalable, performant, and intuitive analytics experience for thousands of enterprise users.
This is a hands-on leadership role: ~60% technical contribution (architecture, design reviews, prototyping, performance tuning) and ~40% people leadership (coaching, execution, quality, cross-functional collaboration).
What you will do:
Technical Leadership:
- Own the architecture, scalability, and performance of the Liveboard platform, front-end, service layer, and query integration.
- Lead design reviews, drive engineering best practices, and ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
- Partner closely with Product to define the technical vision for Liveboard interactivity, performance optimisations, caching, personalisation, and AI-driven insights.
- Guide the team through complex refactors and migrations (e.g., visualisation library updates, Liveboard metadata changes, caching strategies).
- Drive observability, reliability, SLO/SLA definitions, and performance instrumentation for Liveboard usage patterns.
- Collaborate with AI/LLM teams to integrate intelligent insight generation, natural language interactions, and smart recommendations.
Execution & Delivery:
- Lead a team of engineers in delivering capabilities across multiple releases with predictable, high-quality execution.
- Break down ambiguous feature requirements into technical plans, milestones, and deliverable work-streams.
- Improve iteration velocity through better tooling, CI/CD, testing automation, and standardisation.
- Work closely with SRE to ensure smooth releases, on-call quality, incident analysis, and reliability improvements.
People Leadership:
- Mentor, coach, and grow engineers; support career development through feedback, performance discussions, and empowerment.
- Create a high-performing engineering culture anchored on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders (Product, Design, QA, SRE, Customer Success) to align priorities and remove execution blockers.
What you will bring:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 2–4 years in a technical leadership/management role.
- Strong front-end engineering expertise: Java Script, Type Script, React, performance optimisation, visualisation frameworks.
- Solid backend/service fundamentals with experience in distributed systems, REST/Graph QL, caching, and performance patterns.
- Deep experience building complex data/analytics products or consumer-grade interactive UIs.
- Ability to lead architecture discussions, make technical decisions, and balance short-term vs. long-term trade-offs.
- Proven track record of mentoring engineers, driving execution, and leading teams through technical complexity.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with analytics, BI, or data visualisation products.
- Background integrating AI/LLM-based features or building intelligent UX workflows.
- Familiarity with Highcharts, D3, or custom charting libraries.
- Experience driving reliability, monitoring, and performance optimization in large-scale Saa S.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced product organization with cross-functional influence.
Hybrid Work at Thought Spot: This office-assigned role is available as a hybrid position. Spotters assigned to an office are encouraged to experience the energy of their local office with an in-office requirement of at least three days per week. This approach balances the benefits of in-person collaboration and peer learning with the flexibility needed by individuals and teams.
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