Director of Engineering, Product
Core
Lead product engineering transformation in an AI-native organization, shifting from human-centric workflows to agentic systems where autonomous agents author code and execute tasks.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Product/Strategy)
Builds
Autonomous coding agents, agent workflows, and product features for a two-sided marketplace platform.
Domain
Marketplace / Two-sided platform / AI Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Engineering management of multi-team groups, organizational change management, hands-on fluency with AI coding agents (spec-first approach), system architecture design, data-driven performance measurement, hiring and mentorship of engineering leaders.
Preferred skills
Experience with marketplaces or two-sided platforms, developer experience (DevEx) optimization, cross-timezone team leadership.
Technologies
AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code), full-stack web/mobile/backend systems.
Responsibilities
Redefine engineering management practices for agentic teams, transition engineers to directing parallel agent workflows, lead the productionization of coding agents for bug fixing and triage, partner with product/design on work scoping, establish rigorous metrics for engineering output and stability, represent product engineering on the CTO Leadership Team.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC leader with strategic scope
