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AI Engineering Manager
@ Groom & Associates
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Groom & Associates is hiring an AI Engineering Manager to lead its AI squad's people, roadmap and technical standards across the AI Rater, conversational AI and internal productivity tooling. The role combines people leadership, hiring, technical direction and staying hands-on with LLM-powered products in a regulated insurance context. The position is full-time, permanent and remote anywhere in Canada, with salary around 180,000 to 190,000 CAD plus bonus, vacation and benefits.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and grow the AI engineering team, including hiring and performance management
- Set technical direction, standards and architecture for AI and LLM features
- Translate business priorities into an AI roadmap across rater, conversational AI and productivity tools
- Partner with Product, Compliance/Legal and Sales on AI governance
- Stay hands-on to unblock the team and retain technical credibility
Requirements summary:
- 8+ years of engineering experience, with 3+ years in a technical lead or management role
- Track record of shipping AI/LLM-powered products end-to-end
- Experience with LLMOps and scaling AI features reliably on a SaaS platform
- Experience evaluating LLM providers and making build-vs-buy decisions
- Ability to communicate AI strategy and risk to non-technical leadership
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-22
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-17
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-02
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Job details
| Seniority | Manager |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 8+ years |
| Management experience | 3+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Performance bonus |
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Groom & Associates
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Full company description
We've been providing staffing solutions that work for companies in all fields for over 20 years. What makes us so successful? Experience and our unique ability to accurately assess and then match the candidate's individual job skills with the ideal position. Our wide range of services means we can offer a broad selection of qualified candidates - whether you need permanent team players or temporary replacements. We provide long-term solutions for all your recruiting, evaluation and personnel selection. Depuis plus de 20 ans, nous offrons aux entreprises des solutions uniques adaptées à leur recrutement de personnel. La clé de notre succès réside dans notre habileté à combiner les qualités d’un candidat à celles exigées pour un mandat. Notre éventail de services nous permet de vous proposer une grande variété de candidats hautement qualifiés qui peuvent se joindre à votre équipe de façon permanente ou temporaire. Nous fournissons des solutions à long terme pour : le recrutement, l’évaluation et la sélection de votre personnel
- LinkedIn followers
- 90,996
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 40
- Reported office locations
- 360 Rue St-Jacques, G-100, Montreal, QC H2Y 1P6, CA
- 999 Canada Place, Suite 404, Vancouver, British Colombia V6C 3E2, CA
- 151 Yonge Street, 11th floor, Toronto, Ontario M5C 2W7, CA
- 5925 Airport road, Suite 200, MISSISSAUGA, Ontario 4V 1W1, CA
- 343 Preston Street, 11th floor, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 1N4, CA
- Other recorded names
- Groom & Associés / Associates
- Specialties
- IT recruitment
- Sales & Marketing Recruitment
- Finance & Accounting recruitment
- Administration & Operations recruitment
- Engineering recruitment
- Science & Pharmaceutical recruitment
- Temporary Recruitment
- and Executive search recruitment
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
We've been providing staffing solutions that work for companies in all fields for over 20 years. What makes us so successful? Experience and our unique ability to accurately assess and then match the candidate's individual job skills with the ideal position. Our wide range of services means we can offer a broad selection of qualified candidates - whether you need permanent team players or temporary replacements. We…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 11-50 employees |
| Headquarters | Montreal, QC |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Specialties | IT recruitmentSales & Marketing RecruitmentFinance & Accounting recruitmentAdministration & Operations recruitmentEngineering recruitmentScience & Pharmaceutical recruitmentTemporary Recruitmentand Executive search recruitment |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 24 |
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What makes this company particularly attractive is the combination of a high-growth technology environment with the scale and complexity of the global insurance industry. Its cloud-based platform connects insurers, distribution partners and customers through a single technology ecosystem, helping businesses launch new insurance offerings faster while improving the overall customer experience. It is an interesting environment for someone who wants to work at the intersection of technology, data and insurance within a rapidly growing international organization.
They are currently very much in a scale-up phase. The company has reached Series C funding with a valuation of approximately $2.1 billion, and the organization continues to invest heavily in technology, product development and global expansion. As part of that next stage of growth, the company is looking to continue maturing its operations and technology organization, with the ambition of being IPO-ready as early as next year.
As part of this growth, we are currently searching for an AI Engineering Manager. The internal AI team is currently around 4–5 people, supported by close to 10 contractors, and this person will play an important role in managing, structuring and growing the team as AI becomes increasingly important across the organization. The mandate will combine people leadership, technical direction and team building, with the opportunity to help shape how the company develops and scales its AI engineering capabilities.
Summary: Leads the AI squad's people, roadmap, and technical standards - translating business priorities into a coherent AI strategy across the AI Rater, conversational AI, and internal productivity tooling - while staying hands-on.
Title: Ai Engineering Manager
Location: Remote anywhere in Canada
Work model: remote
Type of position: Full time, permanent
Salary: Very open, currently considering around the 180-190k CAD with bonus + vacation & benefits
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Core Requirements
● 8+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years in a technical lead or engineering management role
● Proven track record leading a team that shipped AI/LLM-powered products end-to-end
● Technical depth to review architecture, set engineering standards (prompting, evaluation, guardrails), and unblock the team hands-on
● Experience owning a technical roadmap and translating business goals (automated rating, lead qualification, agent copilots) into engineering plans
● People leadership: hiring, mentoring, and performance management across AI Engineers and Senior AI Engineers
● Cross-functional partnership with Product, Compliance/Legal, and Sales - especially on AI governance in a regulated industry
● Experience with vendor/model strategy: evaluating LLM providers, cost/performance tradeoffs, build-vs-buy calls
● Strong grasp of LLMOps and the infrastructure needed to scale AI features reliably across a SaaS platform
● Skilled at communicating AI strategy, risk, and results to non-technical stakeholders and leadership
● Stays hands-on with AI-assisted engineering tools and retains technical credibility with the team
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