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Technical Lead Manager roles sit at the intersection of engineering leadership and people management, making them strong candidates for H-1B sponsorship under the specialty occupation standard. Most employers filing LCAs for this title require a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or a related field. Cap-subject H-1B registrations open each April for an October 1 start date.
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San Francisco; New York City
ADDRESS
San Francisco, California
EMPLOYMENT TYPE
Full time
LOCATION TYPE
Hybrid
DEPARTMENT
Engineering, Product & Design
COMPENSATION
Tier 1
Base Salary Range: $245K – $270K • Offers Equity
The base salary range represents the minimum and maximum of the salary range for this position based at our San Francisco headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate. Our base salary is just one component of Ironclad’s competitive total rewards package, which also includes equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure), competitive health and wellness benefits, and a commitment to career growth and development.
Ironclad is the leading AI contracting platform that transforms agreements into assets. Contracts move faster, insights surface instantly, and agents push work forward, all with you in control. Whether you’re buying or selling, Ironclad unifies the entire process on one intelligent platform, providing leaders with the visibility they need to stay one step ahead. That’s why the world’s most transformative organizations, from Rivian to the World Health Organization and the Associated Press, trust Ironclad to accelerate their business.
We’re consistently recognized as a leader in the industry: a Leader in the Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Lifecycle Management, a Fortune Great Place to Work, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Workplaces. Ironclad has also been named to Forbes’ AI 50 and Business Insider’s list of Companies to Bet Your Career On. We’re backed by leading investors including Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, BOND, and Franklin Templeton.
This is a hybrid role. Office attendance is required at least twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for collaboration and connection. There may be additional in-office days for team or company events.
Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership: Manage and grow a high-performing team of engineers. Foster a culture of technical excellence, high agency, and pragmatic delivery. Challenge the status quo when there are opportunities to elevate Ironclad’s product and culture.
- Product Delivery: Lead the execution of agentic solutions to major contracting challenges faced by our customers’ procurement teams, spearhead scalability improvements to meet increasing demands of enterprise-scale performance, and more.
- Strategic Roadmap: Partner with Product and Design to ensure that proposed solutions fully satisfy our customers’ needs and align to Ironclad’s high-level strategic objectives.
- Technical Contribution: Actively participate in the codebase, and use sound technical judgment and collaborative critique to refine specs and designs.
- System Ownership: Own and improve the existing core systems that power your team’s product surfaces, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
- AI-Forward Operations: Lead by example in adopting AI tooling (such as Cursor or Claude Code) to improve engineering velocity and code quality.
- Operational Excellence: Work with Quality Engineers, Security Engineers, and SREs to define testing strategies for non-deterministic AI outputs, validate end-to-end experiences, guard against vulnerabilities and unsafe coding practices, and ensure adequate performance at high scale.
- Team Representation: Manage cross-team dependencies to mitigate delivery delays. Build awareness of your team’s work for other teams and departments.
- Hiring and Performance: Interview and recruit more talented engineers to join Ironclad. Provide 1:1 support for your team’s engineers and formal feedback for talent management when needed.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
- Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production-grade web applications.
- Leadership: 2+ years of experience in engineering management or technical leadership, with a proven ability to grow engineers.
- Technical Stack: Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
- Passion: Desire to build and ship great product, keeping customer value in mind. A high bar for quality, upheld personally and with other engineers.
- AI Fluency: Familiarity with modern AI tools for code development (such as Claude Code) and experience incorporating AI into a customer-facing product experience.
- Soft Skills: Excellent cross-team communication and collaboration skills, both spoken and written.
- Ironclad Culture: Alignment with Ironclad’s values: Drive, Intent, Integrity, and Empathy.
BASE SALARY RANGE: $245,000 - $270,000
The base salary range represents the minimum and maximum of the salary range for this position based at our San Francisco headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate. Our base salary is just one component of Ironclad’s competitive total rewards package, which also includes equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure), competitive health and wellness benefits, and a commitment to career growth and development.
US FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AT IRONCLAD:
- 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options available
- Market-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave
- Family forming support through Maven for you and your partner
- Paid time off - take the time you need, when you need it
- Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and (if applicable) cell phone use
- Mental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools
- Pre-tax commuter benefits (US Employees)
- 401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match (US Employees)
- Regular team events to connect, recharge, and have fun
- And most importantly: the opportunity to help build the company you want to work at
UK EMPLOYEE-SPECIFIC BENEFITS ARE INCLUDED ON OUR UK JOB POSTINGS
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
LOCATION
San Francisco; New York City
ADDRESS
San Francisco, California
EMPLOYMENT TYPE
Full time
LOCATION TYPE
Hybrid
DEPARTMENT
Engineering, Product & Design
COMPENSATION
Tier 1
Base Salary Range: $245K – $270K • Offers Equity
The base salary range represents the minimum and maximum of the salary range for this position based at our San Francisco headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate. Our base salary is just one component of Ironclad’s competitive total rewards package, which also includes equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure), competitive health and wellness benefits, and a commitment to career growth and development.
Ironclad is the leading AI contracting platform that transforms agreements into assets. Contracts move faster, insights surface instantly, and agents push work forward, all with you in control. Whether you’re buying or selling, Ironclad unifies the entire process on one intelligent platform, providing leaders with the visibility they need to stay one step ahead. That’s why the world’s most transformative organizations, from Rivian to the World Health Organization and the Associated Press, trust Ironclad to accelerate their business.
We’re consistently recognized as a leader in the industry: a Leader in the Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Lifecycle Management, a Fortune Great Place to Work, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Workplaces. Ironclad has also been named to Forbes’ AI 50 and Business Insider’s list of Companies to Bet Your Career On. We’re backed by leading investors including Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, BOND, and Franklin Templeton.
This is a hybrid role. Office attendance is required at least twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for collaboration and connection. There may be additional in-office days for team or company events.
Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership: Manage and grow a high-performing team of engineers. Foster a culture of technical excellence, high agency, and pragmatic delivery. Challenge the status quo when there are opportunities to elevate Ironclad’s product and culture.
- Product Delivery: Lead the execution of agentic solutions to major contracting challenges faced by our customers’ procurement teams, spearhead scalability improvements to meet increasing demands of enterprise-scale performance, and more.
- Strategic Roadmap: Partner with Product and Design to ensure that proposed solutions fully satisfy our customers’ needs and align to Ironclad’s high-level strategic objectives.
- Technical Contribution: Actively participate in the codebase, and use sound technical judgment and collaborative critique to refine specs and designs.
- System Ownership: Own and improve the existing core systems that power your team’s product surfaces, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
- AI-Forward Operations: Lead by example in adopting AI tooling (such as Cursor or Claude Code) to improve engineering velocity and code quality.
- Operational Excellence: Work with Quality Engineers, Security Engineers, and SREs to define testing strategies for non-deterministic AI outputs, validate end-to-end experiences, guard against vulnerabilities and unsafe coding practices, and ensure adequate performance at high scale.
- Team Representation: Manage cross-team dependencies to mitigate delivery delays. Build awareness of your team’s work for other teams and departments.
- Hiring and Performance: Interview and recruit more talented engineers to join Ironclad. Provide 1:1 support for your team’s engineers and formal feedback for talent management when needed.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
- Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production-grade web applications.
- Leadership: 2+ years of experience in engineering management or technical leadership, with a proven ability to grow engineers.
- Technical Stack: Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
- Passion: Desire to build and ship great product, keeping customer value in mind. A high bar for quality, upheld personally and with other engineers.
- AI Fluency: Familiarity with modern AI tools for code development (such as Claude Code) and experience incorporating AI into a customer-facing product experience.
- Soft Skills: Excellent cross-team communication and collaboration skills, both spoken and written.
- Ironclad Culture: Alignment with Ironclad’s values: Drive, Intent, Integrity, and Empathy.
BASE SALARY RANGE: $245,000 - $270,000
The base salary range represents the minimum and maximum of the salary range for this position based at our San Francisco headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate. Our base salary is just one component of Ironclad’s competitive total rewards package, which also includes equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure), competitive health and wellness benefits, and a commitment to career growth and development.
US FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AT IRONCLAD:
- 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options available
- Market-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave
- Family forming support through Maven for you and your partner
- Paid time off - take the time you need, when you need it
- Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and (if applicable) cell phone use
- Mental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools
- Pre-tax commuter benefits (US Employees)
- 401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match (US Employees)
- Regular team events to connect, recharge, and have fun
- And most importantly: the opportunity to help build the company you want to work at
UK EMPLOYEE-SPECIFIC BENEFITS ARE INCLUDED ON OUR UK JOB POSTINGS
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Technical Lead Manager
Verify your degree aligns with the role
USCIS scrutinizes whether your degree field directly relates to the Technical Lead Manager position. A computer science or engineering degree is straightforward, but a business or unrelated degree will require your employer to document a direct theoretical connection.
Cross-reference your LCA wage level carefully
Technical Lead Managers typically file at DOL wage Level III or IV. Use the OFLC Wage Search to confirm the prevailing wage for your specific SOC code and location before your employer submits the LCA, so the offered salary clears the threshold.
Target employers with cap-exempt pathways
Universities, nonprofit research organizations, and certain government entities are exempt from the H-1B cap and lottery. If you're open to a Technical Lead Manager role in higher education or research, you can start any time of year without waiting for the April registration window.
Search verified H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate
Filter Technical Lead Manager roles by employers with active H-1B LCA filing history on Migrate Mate. This surfaces companies that have already navigated the specialty occupation determination for this title, reducing the risk of an RFE on your petition.
Flag management scope in your offer letter
Technical Lead Manager roles combine technical and supervisory duties. Ask your employer to specify both dimensions in the offer letter and LCA job description. USCIS has issued RFEs on hybrid titles where the management component was unclear, so detail matters here.
Time your premium processing to the lottery outcome
Premium processing only applies after USCIS selects your registration. Don't assume your employer will upgrade automatically. Confirm in advance whether they'll file with premium processing so you can plan your start date and any change-of-status timeline accurately.
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Does a Technical Lead Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific technical field such as computer science, software engineering, or a closely related discipline. USCIS looks at both the duties listed in the LCA and the employer's internal requirements. Hybrid roles that blend management with hands-on technical work generally qualify, but your employer's job description must make the degree requirement explicit rather than preferred.
Which SOC code typically applies to Technical Lead Manager positions?
Most Technical Lead Manager roles are filed under SOC 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers), though some employers use 15-1252 (Software Developers) or a related engineering code depending on how the duties are weighted. The SOC code your employer selects on the LCA determines your prevailing wage level, so it's worth confirming with HR before the DOL filing. O*NET profiles for these codes describe the typical duty mix in detail.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas for Technical Lead Manager roles?
Migrate Mate filters job listings by verified H-1B LCA filing history, so you can identify companies that have already filed for this specific title rather than relying on recruiters' claims. Look for employers with consistent multi-year filing patterns in your target location, since they're more likely to have an internal immigration process already in place for this level.
Can I negotiate a promotion from Senior Engineer to Technical Lead Manager while on H-1B status?
Yes, but a promotion that materially changes your job duties, title, or wage level requires your employer to file an amended H-1B petition before the change takes effect. If the new role involves a different SOC code or a significantly different job description, USCIS treats it as a new petition. Your employer should file the amended petition and receive a receipt notice before you formally move into the Technical Lead Manager role.
What happens to my H-1B if my employer is acquired or undergoes a merger?
If the successor company is a bona fide successor-in-interest and assumes the original employer's liabilities, you can continue working under the existing H-1B while an amended petition is filed. You should not stop working during the transition. However, if the acquiring entity is structurally different or the role changes significantly, a new or amended petition is required. USCIS guidance on corporate restructuring covers the specific conditions that qualify for successor-in-interest treatment.
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