Job Summary:
xAI is focused on creating AI systems that enhance human understanding and knowledge. They are seeking an Engineering Lead for Consumer Subscriptions to own the billing and monetization infrastructure, leading a team to drive revenue growth and enhance user experiences for their products.
Responsibilities:
• Own the complete billing infrastructure for consumer subscriptions end-to-end, ensuring world-class reliability, security, and scalability.
• Design and build sophisticated promotional offer infrastructure and internal tools to supercharge the revenue organization.
• Develop comprehensive communications systems enabling intelligent push, email, and in-app messaging that drive engagement and conversions.
• Implement market-specific billing methods and compliance solutions to accelerate global expansion.
• Architect compelling product bundles across the X ecosystem tailored to different markets and consumer needs.
• Build intelligent models and systems that serve the right messages, offers, and information to users at the optimal time.
• Recruit, build, and lead a high-performing Consumer Subscriptions engineering team.
• Hands-on ownership and development of key features for X Premium and SuperGrok products.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Exceptional software engineering background with deep experience building large-scale, high-stakes systems (billing, payments, or transactional platforms preferred).
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and influence or directly manage engineering teams.
• Strong track record delivering complex backend systems for consumer applications at scale.
• Passion for revenue-generating products and creating exceptional user experiences.
Preferred:
• 5+ years of experience working on large-scale consumer applications, ideally in monetization, subscriptions, or fintech.
• Experience leading engineering efforts in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Expertise in distributed systems, global payments infrastructure, personalization engines, or A/B testing frameworks.
• Proficiency with high-performance languages and tools such as Go, Python, Java, Rust, or similar.
Company:
XAI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops AI solutions and tools to enhance reasoning and search capabilities. It is a sub-organization of SpaceX. Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.