Tech Lead Manager, Connectors

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.

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. You'll be 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.

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.

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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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