[Hiring] UI/UX and Full Stack Engineering Manager @Ocient

Role Description

The Engineering Manager, UI/UX & Full-Stack leads a team of UI/UX and full-stack engineers at Ocient, responsible for end-to-end web engineering delivery (front-end experiences, REST APIs, and back-end services in Java or C++), team development, and cross-functional product alignment across Ocient’s product surface areas. This player/coach role balances hands-on technical engagement with people management — setting team direction, developing engineering talent, and ensuring the team delivers high-quality, scalable product experiences with technical rigor and strong design partnership.

This manager champions AI-assisted engineering, setting the standard for how the team uses AI tools and coding agents (Claude) across architecture, design, development, and workflow management. The Engineering Manager, UI/UX & Full-Stack is a trusted technical and organizational partner to Product, Design, and Engineering leadership, and a champion for web engineering excellence at Ocient.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of UI/UX and full-stack engineers, supporting individual career goals through regular 1:1s, performance evaluations, and structured technical development planning.
• Own the full-stack engineering delivery model for assigned product areas, ensuring consistent, high-quality implementation from UI through API and back-end services across Ocient’s product surface.
• Drive front-end and API architecture, coding standards, REST API contract design, and design system governance in close partnership with Staff and Senior engineers, engaging hands-on with the most complex engineering challenges.
• Partner with Product Management and Design to define UI/UX requirements, align on product direction, and deliver product experiences that meet customer needs and business goals.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development across the team, establishing practices, structured prompts, and context files for using AI tools and coding agents (Claude) to improve efficiency and quality in architecture, design, development, and workflow management.
• Identify, communicate, and manage technical risk on large, complex full-stack initiatives, balancing quality, velocity, and long-term maintainability.
• Hire, onboard, and develop UI/UX and full-stack engineering talent, building a high-performing, technically rigorous engineering team.
• Provide regular engineering health, delivery, and product quality reporting to senior Engineering and Product leadership.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of UI/UX, front-end, or full-stack engineering experience with at least 2 years of direct engineering management experience leading front-end or full-stack engineers.
• Demonstrated track record of leading front-end or full-stack engineering delivery for complex, data-intensive enterprise software products.

Requirements

• Expert proficiency in TypeScript and React.js with the technical depth to engage meaningfully in front-end architecture and code quality discussions, and working knowledge of back-end development in Java or C++ sufficient to guide architecture and code reviews across the stack.
• Demonstrable experience using AI tools and agents to produce quality designs and software using structured prompts and context files, and guiding a team in adopting these practices effectively.
• Strong engineering management skills with the ability to develop UI/UX and full-stack engineers, set clear technical expectations, and build high-performing teams.
• Proven ability to partner with Product and Design on UI/UX requirements, product direction, and design system governance.
• Strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to manage cross-functional delivery across Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Experience with Figma, REST API design, SQL databases, Git-based review workflows, and front-end performance, accessibility, and quality standards.

Interview Requirements

• All interviews are conducted via video and require candidates to have their camera on for the duration of the session.
• The use of video filters, face-altering effects, or virtual backgrounds is not permitted for security and verification purposes.

Company Description

Ocient is building OcientAIQ™ – a complete ecosystem for delivering trusted agentic AI solutions at petabyte scale, for the organizations that can't afford to get AI wrong. Our customers protect networks, secure nations, and power the global economy. The problems we solve are genuinely hard, and the work matters.

Founded in 2016 by the team that built Cleversafe (acquired by IBM in 2015), Ocient is headquartered in Chicago with a remote-first global team. We are a carbon-neutral company backed by leading investors including Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and Buoyant Ventures.