AI Development Manager

About the role

Moonshot builds the power infrastructure that makes AI possible. Our electrical distribution equipment goes into the largest AI datacenter deployments in the country; our customers include the companies building the next generation of AI compute. Moonshot Labs is our internal technology organization. We build the software, automation, and AI agents that accelerate how a manufacturing business runs, from the shop floor to leadership. As Software Development Manager, you own the software development team: the people, the delivery, and the execution of the roadmap. You are the single point of contact between Labs software and the rest of the business, and you are hands-on enough to set the technical bar and make real architecture calls. You keep the team on the leading edge of applied AI, both in how they build and in what they build, from AI-assisted development to shipping practical AI agents that put time back in people's hands. This is a build-it leadership role reporting directly to the CTO, with scope that grows as Labs grows.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership and Development: Manage, mentor, and grow the software development team. Own hiring, 1:1s, performance management, and team structure. Develop your people and keep the quality bar high as the team scales.
• Roadmap Execution and Prioritization: In partnership with the CTO, translate company priorities into a sequenced, prioritized plan. Decide what the team builds next and why, balance competing requests, and keep the team pointed at the highest-impact work.
• Technical Standards and Hands-On Judgment: Set technical standards and own architecture decisions, code review practices, and technology choices. Stay hands-on enough to evaluate trade-offs and hold the team to a high bar.
• Adoption and Outcomes: Make sure what the team ships gets used and drives measurable results. Coordinate rollout, gather user feedback, track adoption, and feed real-world input back into the next iteration. A tool nobody uses is a tool that did not matter.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 2 years directly leading or managing a software team, not just senior individual-contributor work
• Track record of shipping internal tools, web applications, data or ERP integrations, or operational software that drove measurable business outcomes
• Experience owning delivery for a team: prioritization, sprint cadence, and release management
• Experience in a manufacturing, industrial, or operationally complex environment is strongly preferred
• Strong hands-on technical foundation in modern web development (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, React or Vue, or similar), relational databases and SQL, REST APIs, and system architecture, enough to set the bar and make consequential technical calls
• Demonstrated judgment for evaluating fast-moving AI tools and deciding what is worth adopting versus hype, then driving real adoption across a team
• Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain technical talent and hold a team accountable to timelines and quality without micromanaging
• Excellent communication with both developers and non-technical business leaders; able to own the strategic "what and why" alongside the delivery "when"
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift and structure is still being built

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