Team Lead, Delivery Management

THE ROLE

The Team Lead owns what the Bolt delivery team ships across Element451’s AI-powered product experiences. This is a player-coach role: you lead and grow the team while staying close enough to the code and product to make real technical calls. You manage up to eight engineers and are accountable for the team’s delivery end to end — velocity, predictability, quality, and safe operation of customer-facing AI experiences, from planning until working software is live in production.

Bolt brings AI-powered and agentic experiences into the workflows colleges and universities use to recruit, enroll, and support students. Its product shape will continue to evolve as we learn from customers and the market. This role turns that direction into dependable product outcomes while helping the team navigate ambiguity, make sound technical trade-offs, and keep shipping predictably.

The role flexes with team size — genuinely hands-on while the team is small, and trending toward leadership as it grows. It reports into the Director, Engineering and owns a single team, not a department. Technical standards and architecture are owned by the Principal Engineers; the Team Lead reinforces them and escalates decisions beyond the team’s scope. See Appendix A for development lifecycle expectations.

Where the lines are: Product owns