At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to build AI infrastructure for the world’s #1 health app.
- Company: Join Flo, a mission-driven tech company transforming female health.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work, generous leave, and professional growth opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic, collaborative environment with a focus on innovation and diversity.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on millions of users with cutting-edge AI technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in engineering leadership and AI/ML infrastructure.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 98000 £ per year.
Flo is the world’s #1 health & fitness app on a mission to build a better future for female health. With 7M paid subscribers and the highest-rated experience in the App Store’s health category, we’ve spent 10 years earning trust at scale. Now, we’re building the next generation of digital health – AI-powered, privacy-first, clinically backed – to help our users know their body better.
As our Engineering Manager for the AI Platform, you will lead the core team that builds the shared infrastructure powering every AI feature at Flo—from our chatbot and cycle predictions to personalized health insights. You will work in an environment where we maintain direct technical partnerships with Databricks, OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS.
The Environment
Our AI Platform team is embedded directly in product delivery, working in cross-functional squads alongside our Data Platform team and external model partners. You will manage a dynamic environment where roughly 30% of the team's work is reactive, driven by immediate product needs, while maintaining focus on our long-term roadmap.
What You’ll Do
- Lead & Empower: Manage a team of senior engineers using a distributed leadership model.
- Own the Roadmap: Translate product and company goals into clear team roadmaps.
- Drive Delivery: Coordinate cross-pod dependencies, resolve blockers, and track roadmap milestones.
- Technical Stewardship: Participate in architectural reviews and provide hands-on technical guidance (~20% of your time).
- Cross-Functional Impact: Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders across Product, Analytics, and Engineering.
What you bring:
- Engineering Leadership: Proven track record managing engineering teams in fast-moving product environments.
- AI/ML Infrastructure Depth: Direct, hands-on experience leading or building ML systems in production.
- The "Manager-as-Leader" Mindset: Technical depth to participate in architecture discussions.
- Agile & Stakeholder Savvy: Comfortable operating where priorities shift.
- Collaborative Spirit: Thrive in cross-functional setups and understand how to manage diverse teams.
Why Join Flo?
- Massive Scale: Your work will directly impact millions of users.
- Cutting-Edge Tech: Work at the intersection of AI and healthcare.
- High Visibility: Significant industry exposure, including potential opportunities to present our evaluation platforms.
How we work
We’re a mission-led, product-driven team. We move fast, stay focused and take ownership. Debate is encouraged. Decisions are shared. We care about craft, ship with purpose, and always raise the bar.
What you'll get
- Competitive salary and annual reviews
- Opportunity to participate in Flo’s performance incentive scheme
- Paid holiday, sick leave, and female health leave
- Enhanced parental leave and pay for maternity, paternity, same-sex and adoptive parents
- Accelerated professional growth through world-changing work and learning support
- In-person collaboration and work in a hybrid model
- 5-week fully paid sabbatical at 5-year Floversary
- Flo Premium for friends & family, plus more health, pension and wellbeing perks
Diversity, equity and inclusion
At Flo, hiring is based on merit, skill and what you bring to the role. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, communities and identities.
