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Sr. Engineering Manager

Betterment
Betterment HQ - New York City, USAfull_timePosted 3 Jun 2026

About the role

<h2><strong>About Betterment</strong></h2> <p><a href="http://www.betterment.com/">Betterment</a> is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing, savings and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission, to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease.  We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (four days/ week in-office, with no required office days during the summer and winter holidays).</p> <h2>About the Role</h2> <p>The AI Platform team enables product teams across Betterment to build <strong>useful</strong> AI-powered features quickly, enjoyably, and responsibly. As Sr Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of senior/staff engineers delivering an expanding set of AI capabilities as well as shared infrastructure, LLM evaluation frameworks, and internal libraries.</p> <p>You will work directly with product and engineering leadership to drive the technical direction of our AI product development strategy. You will collaborate closely with product and compliance partners to ensure Betterment's AI capabilities are developed with the rigor that our customers and regulators expect.</p> <p>By joining us in the early days of our AI product efforts, you will have significant influence over how the organization delivers exciting features into the Betterment product across all lines of business.</p> <p>This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees.</p> <ul> <li>New York City: $200,000 - $240,000</li> </ul> <p>This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.</p> <h2>A Day in the Life:</h2> <ul> <li>Lead and grow a team of senior/staff engineers building the foundation that enables all Betterment teams to deploy AI features.</li> <li>Identify high-leverage opportunities where AI organically enhances existing product value.</li> <li>Sequence your team roadmap to deliver product features that expand our organization’s AI technical capabilities.</li> <li>Partner with product teams to ship customer-facing AI functionality to production. Develop broad Betterment domain expertise in the process.</li> <li>Partner with legal and compliance leaders to scale processes that enable teams to build AI functionality quickly and responsibly within a regulated financial services envir

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