Principal

About the job

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Eagle https://www.eagleeng.com/ is on a mission to re-energize the engineering profession. Every road, water system, and power grid starts at an engineering firm. There are 40K+ of them in the US, and most run on software older than the engineers using it.

We partner deeply with engineering firms and build an AI-native operating system to give engineers superpowers: getting things done faster and better.

Eagle was founded by Mayank Mardia (CEO), Sohum Daftary (President), and Thomas Shouler, P.E. (CTO), and is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Principal at Eagle, you'll report to Sohum (President) and work with the Founders across building strategic partnerships with great engineering firms, helping those firms grow, and supporting Eagle's operations. You'll be an extension of the Founders, and in some places a replacement.

We want you to own workstreams, important conversations, and meaningful decisions, to have a perspective, and to mobilize people to get things done.

In this role, you'll:

🤝 Earn trust onsite: Be onsite at our partner firms and earn the trust of firm leaders and engineers who've never worked with a tech company.

🗺️ Run the partnership cadence: Work with partner firm leadership on the 90-day plan, comp plan rollout, and key hires.

🔍 Own relationships with founder-owners: Meet founder-owners of engineering firms and own the relationship from first call to signed partnership. Keep it high touch, and solve for their objectives.

⚙️ Help run Eagle: Support Eagle's operations, including recruiting, logistics, and admin.

🚀 Build the partnership: Help transform our partner engineering firms, against an industry backdrop that’s barely been touched by AI.

📈 Grow as we grow: As we add partner firms, paths include leading new partnerships, operating roles at our partner firms, and senior roles at Eagle. We'll talk openly about where you want to go.

And there will be lots more, especially as you ideate through and materialize new opportunities within Eagle and our partner firms.

YOU COULD BE A GREAT FIT IF YOU:

• Earn trust

• Through excellent communication, nuance, and persuasion

• By bringing people along with clarity, empathy, and intention

• Show up

• Get on a plane, then implement the ideas you come up with

• Unblock the work by meeting people, understanding them, and getting folks aligned

• Stay curious

• Ask hard questions and listen

• Learn very fast and lean into new domains

• Find the better path

• Use AI tools every day to work faster and automate systems

• Pick the faster, better, more cost-effective route, whether that's AI, people, or vendors

Professionally, you have 5+ years of experience in management consulting, IB / PE / VC, or start-up operations. Bonus points if you have started something of your own.

PROCESS

Our process takes about 2 weeks: a conversation with Sohum or Mayank, a second founder conversation, an onsite where you walk us through a short case followed by dinner with the team, and references.

WORKING AT EAGLE

💰 COMPENSATION

$200,000 to $250,000 salary and equity, depending on experience and scope.

❤️ BENEFITS

Health Insurance: Full healthcare, medical and dental

Retirement: 401(k)

PTO: Flexible time off

Travel: Company-paid

Office: HQ in New York City, open to you anytime

👥 FROM MAYANK, SOHUM, AND TOM

We're nice! We promise. We're small, fast, and in-person in New York. We ask a lot of questions, build each other up as professionals, and focus on delivering great outcomes.

Sharing a little about us:

Mayank https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayank-mardia/ (CEO) is the son of an engineering firm owner in post-Katrina New Orleans. He studied computer science and Wharton finance at Penn (summa) and was a U.S. Presidential Scholar. He worked on applied AI at Bloomberg and as a PM at Ethic, and built insider-trading detection for the SEC.

Sohum https://www.linkedin.com/in/sohum-daftary-779999100/ (President) is a technology private equity investor. He studied electrical engineering and Wharton finance in Penn's M&T program (summa), then was a VP at Long Ridge Equity Partners, a technology and services middle-market private equity firm.

Tom https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasshouler (CTO) is a structural engineer turned software engineer. A Cornell grad and licensed P.E., he started at Arup, where he first built software inside the firm, then spent a decade at Palantir, Pivotal, and Replica deploying software within government agencies and Fortune 500s.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

We hire talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. Eagle is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. Consistent with applicable law, we consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

If you need an accommodation at any point in the process, tell us and we'll make it work.