You will lead the Desktop team at Cursor, owning the product and engineering experience that millions of developers rely on every day. This team owns the UI, core features, and client-side architecture of the Cursor desktop application, working across product, design, infrastructure, and platforms to deliver a fast, stable, and seamless experience
This is a highly cross-functional role. The Desktop team sits at the center of many of Cursor’s most important product investments, especially the cross-cutting features that define how humans and agents work together across environments like local, worktrees, remote ssh, and cloud. When developers open Cursor, they expect it to feel instant, reliable, and deeply integrated into their workflow. Your team makes that possible
You’ll lead a team responsible not just for shipping individual features, but for shaping how these systems come together into a coherent app experience. This role is ideal for someone who cares deeply about product quality, technical architecture, developer experience, and leading teams through ambitious, fast-moving roadmaps
Own the execution and quality of the Cursor desktop client across UI, features, and architecture
Partner closely with product, design, and platform teams to deliver cross-cutting user experiences spanning agents and core app workflows
Set a high bar for engineering excellence, performance, reliability, and maintainability in a product used daily by millions of developers
Supporting a team shipping features like async subagents, agent multitasking, a better plan mode, improved browser or computer use, and a strong local<>cloud story
Hire and growing the team: sourcing, interviewing, and closing top fullstack talent