Director of Engineering, AI Platform

About This Role

Key ResponsibilitiesAI-extracted

• 1
  Lead the multi-year vision and technical strategy for Asana's AI platform.
• 2
  Optimize AI infrastructure costs by managing model selection, routing, and inference optimization.
• 3
  Establish AI evaluation frameworks and performance standards for product teams.
• 4
  Lead and mentor managers and their teams across San Francisco and New York City.
• 5
  Manage model strategy, evaluating frontier models versus open-weight models and structuring provider relationships.
• 6
  Architectural leadership, pressure-testing decisions and arbitrating build-versus-buy debates with data.

RequirementsAI-extracted

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years of engineering leadership.
• 2+ years managing engineering managers.
• Proven track record of using AI tools daily, with deep expertise in serving architectures, inference providers, and scale evaluation systems.
• Proven experience optimizing infrastructure costs and unit economics at scale with concrete metrics and clear trade-offs.
• Platform mindset centered on earning trust, establishing clear standards, and using data to guide team priorities.

Perks & BenefitsAI-extracted