Engineering Manager, AI Automation & QA at Notion

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Technology, SoftwareIndustries

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in software industry and 2+ years managing engineering teams with a record of shipping high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment
  • Hands-on ability to experiment with new AI-based agents and assistants and create roadmaps to solve reliability challenges
  • Deep background in automation testing, manual testing, regression, and smoke testing
  • Passionate about navigating new AI-based development and testing frameworks
  • Strong communication skills to empower and coordinate test and verification efforts across the engineering organization, with comfort in regular meetings with US-based teams
  • Ability to create collaborative, empowering, supportive, and challenging team environments where engineers do their best work
  • Value empathetic and direct communication to give and receive feedback effectively and create cross-functional or cross-team alignment
  • Nice to Have
  • Led or participated in a QA transformation from legacy manual methods to automation

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage a diverse and inclusive team of AI Automation and QA engineers to build tools for triaging problems faster, supporting agentic AI workflows, and end-to-end testing platforms using AI capabilities, while creating a healthy team environment embodying Notion's values
  • Recruit, coach, and develop engineers, ensuring they receive regular feedback and make progress on personal and professional goals
  • Collaborate closely with engineering teams to ensure new versions of Notion ship reliably and high-priority bugs are found before users
  • Have a critical impact on reducing MTTD (mean time to detect) for incidents caused by code changes
  • Facilitate planning, including prioritization, sequencing, and staffing of work for the team
  • Maintain a high-quality bar for everything the team ships
  • Provide reliability guardrails for test suites to avoid flaking in CI/CD pipelines, offer resources to engineering for functional domain coverage, collaborate on new feature development for manual verification, and handle manual smoke tests for areas not covered by automation

Skills

Key technologies and capabilities for this role

AI AutomationQA EngineeringEnd-to-End TestingCI/CD PipelinesTest AutomationIncident ResponseBug FixingSmoke TestingManual Verification

Questions & Answers

Common questions about this position

What is the salary for this Engineering Manager role?

This information is not specified in the job description.

What is the location and office policy at Notion?

Notion is an in-person company that requires employees to come to the office for two Anchor Days (Mondays & Thursdays) and requests that employees spend the majority of their week in the office, including a third day.

What experience and skills are required for this position?

Candidates need 10+ years of experience in the software industry and 2+ years managing engineering teams with a record of shipping high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

What is the company culture like at Notion?

Notion emphasizes building a diverse and creative company, passionate about creating a healthy team environment that embodies its values, and focuses on inclusivity and growth for teammates.

What makes a strong candidate for this Engineering Manager role?

A strong candidate has 10+ years in software with 2+ years managing teams, a proven record of high-quality shipping in fast-paced settings, and the ability to build diverse teams while collaborating across engineering.

Notion

Versatile productivity and collaboration platform

About Notion

Notion is a workspace platform designed to enhance productivity and collaboration for a wide range of users, from startups to large enterprises. It combines various tools into a single platform, allowing teams to write, plan, and share their work efficiently. Users can start with a free version and upgrade to paid plans as their needs grow. Key features include customizable notes and documents, project management tools, and a drag-and-drop interface for easy page creation. Notion also includes an AI-powered Q&A feature that provides instant answers to user queries, helping to centralize knowledge. The platform supports multiple languages and has a strong global community that contributes content and organizes events.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2016Year Founded
$325.9MTotal Funding
LATE_VCCompany Stage
Enterprise Software, AI & Machine LearningIndustries
5,001-10,000Employees

Benefits

Medical, dental & vision insurance
PTO
Mental health & wellbeing package
Parental leave
Fertility coverage
Retirement matching
Commuter benefits
Monthly stipend

Risks

Increased competition from AI-enhanced tools like Evernote.
Potential trust issues with AI features due to factual inaccuracies.
User resistance to adopting new productivity tools.

Differentiation

Notion combines note-taking, task management, and databases into a single platform.
The platform offers customizable workspaces for personal and collaborative use.
Notion AI assists with tasks like text generation and predictive analytics.

Upsides

Integration with Slack and Google Drive enhances workflow automation.
Acquisition of Skiff strengthens Notion's privacy offerings.
Standalone apps like Notion Calendar expand Notion's modular productivity solutions.

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