Director of Engineering, AI Platform
AsanaEnterprise Software company
San Francisco, United States$306,000-$360,000Director
Founders Fund
Benchmark
8VC
Generation Investment Management
WiL
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead the AI Platform organization, driving strategy and execution for human-AI collaboration.
- •Lead the AI Platform organization at Asana, building foundational systems for AI experiences.
- •Drive strategy, execution, and architecture for human-AI collaboration to create reliable, high-value product workflows.
- •Key Responsibilities Drive multi-year vision and technical strategy for Asana’s AI platform.
- •Optimize AI infrastructure costs and unit economics at scale.
- •Establish AI evaluation frameworks, regression prevention, and performance standards.
- •Lead and mentor managers and their teams across San Francisco and New York City.
- •Partner cross-functionally with product, go-to-market, and finance leaders.
- •Requirements 12+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years of engineering leadership.
- •Proven track record of using AI tools daily, with deep expertise in serving architectures, inference providers, agentic frameworks, RAG architectures, and scale evaluation systems.
- •Proven experience optimizing infrastructure costs and unit economics at scale.
- •Platform mindset centered on earning trust, establishing clear standards, and providing responsive support.
- •Skilled asynchronous communicator with experience leading distributed teams.
Required skills
LLMsEngineering ManagementStrategic PlanningPythonSQLOpenAI APILangChainMicroservicesCI/CDDockerKubernetesAWSGoogle Cloud
Nice-to-have skills
TensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnHugging FaceComputer VisionNLPMLflowSageMakerVertex AI
Domain expertise
aiproductivity
Benefits & perks
Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits, Career coaching & support, Inclusive family building benefits, Long-term savings or retirement plans, In-office culinary options
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLNode.jsReactAWSGoogle CloudAzureDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitJiraOpenAI APILangChainLLMs
