Head of Agentic Engineering Platform (Remote | Equity)

FractionalFinders; Montreal; Presencial; CAD 428.000 - 513.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible paid time off

Equity options

401(k) contributions and matching

Training and professional development

Health and wellness credit

Volunteer time off

Descripción de la vacante

Lightspeed, a global commerce technology company, seeks a Senior Director of Agentic Engineering to build and lead the platform enabling AI agents across product life cycles. Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, you will shape strategy, lead distributed teams, and drive scalable, secure capabilities for faster, higher-quality product delivery.

The role emphasizes governance, collaboration with Security/Privacy/Legal/Data, and driving adoption of agentic workflows across the organization, with a

Formación

• Experience leading leaders and senior technical talent within a software engineering organization.
• Proven track record building high-performing teams through managers and staff-plus engineers.
• Experience defining and scaling internal platforms, developer platforms, shared engineering capabilities, or infrastructure products in complex, multi-product environments.
• Experience building or deploying AI-enabled and agentic systems, including model and tool orchestration, retrieval and context systems, evaluation frameworks, automation, observability, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Strong experience partnering with senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Security, Privacy, Legal, and business functions.
• Experience leading organizational change across distributed teams, including workflow redesign, enablement, communication, and adoption at scale.
• Strong understanding of architecture, engineering quality, operational resilience, responsible AI, security, and cost management.
• Excellent ability to communicate complex technical and strategic concepts to executives, technical leaders, and cross-functional teams.
• 15+ years of relevant experience.

Responsabilidades

• Define the multi-year vision, strategy, and roadmap for agentic engineering at Lightspeed.
• Translate business and product priorities into a platform investment plan.
• Build and lead teams responsible for shared agentic platform capabilities, including reusable agents, workflow orchestration, context and knowledge access, tool integrations, evaluation, observability, and governance.

Conocimientos

Lead senior talent

Platform leadership

AI governance

Strategy & roadmap

Cross-functional partnership

Executive communication

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Descripción del empleo

Lightspeed, a global commerce technology company, seeks a Senior Director of Agentic Engineering to build and lead the platform enabling AI agents across product life cycles. Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, you will shape strategy, lead distributed teams, and drive scalable, secure capabilities for faster, higher-quality product delivery.

The role emphasizes governance, collaboration with Security/Privacy/Legal/Data, and driving adoption of agentic workflows across the organization, with a