Do you want to lead the team building the AI agent at the heart of an enterprise product? Are you the kind of engineering leader who pushes a team forward rather than just keeping it running? Then let's talk.
About Kontent.ai
Kontent.ai helps the world's leading organizations create, govern, and deliver content with speed, confidence, and control.
Our content management platform unifies people, processes, and content into a single, governed system, automating audits, compliance, search, and generative engine optimization so teams can move faster and stay in control.
Who are we looking for?
We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our AI Collective, the team building the AI agent at the heart of our product. It's one of the most strategic and visible roles in our engineering organization. You'll lead a group of strong, experienced engineers with real autonomy and a direct say in where the product goes.
You'll push the team forward: challenging how things get built, bringing new ideas for how AI can solve real problems, and changing what isn't working. You'll hear out every strong opinion, make the call, and explain why you made it.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow the AI Collective, a team building a customer-facing AI agent product.
- Own delivery, process, and team health.
- Turn strategy into focus — translate company vision into clear goals and priorities.
- Drive change — spot what isn't working, get the team's input, and decide.
- Get into the technical detail — ask hard questions, push on scope, and keep the team building the right thing the right way.
- Work in small steps, with fast feedback and room to experiment without fear of getting it wrong.
- Develop your people through real 1:1s and a high-performance team culture.
- Partner with Product and UX to deliver value that matches business goals.
What success looks like
- The team ships consistently and keeps getting better at how it builds.
- Strong opinions turn into decisions, not deadlock, and people understand the calls you make.
- Product, UX, and engineering pull in the same direction.
What we're looking for
People leadership. The AI Collective is full of strong personalities, and this role rests on your ability to lead them. You've done it before: you work through conflict instead of avoiding it, make the call when one's needed, and tell the people who didn't get their way why. Empathic, direct, and willing to change things. Keeping a team ticking isn't enough... we want someone who makes it better.
A real AI track record. A must-have for engineering leadership here. Tell us how you've actually used AI. What you've built with it and which tools you reach for regularly. We care about what you've done with it, not how keen you are on the idea..
Technical credibility. Strong enough to challenge architects and not get talked into needless complexity. Comfortable in an Azure-native, AI-agent environment, and a believer in small experiments, fast iteration, and trying new technology even when it breaks old patterns. You keep up with how software gets built in the AI agent space.
Relevant tech stack
- Microsoft Azure (.NET/C#, Azure Durable Functions, Cosmos DB, Azure AI Search)
- AI agent development (Semantic Kernel)
- REST APIs / GraphQL
The essentials
- Location: Czech Republic, at least one day a week in our Brno office.