Director, AI-Driven Developer Platform & Experience

Gomotive; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 229,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

Motive is hiring a Director of Developer Platform & Experience to own the execution of an AI-driven development lifecycle and the platform underneath it. You will lead internal developer tooling, cloud agent infrastructure, build and CI/CD systems, and the testing frameworks that enable hundreds of engineers to move quickly with confidence and governance.

This builder's leadership role spans North America, Europe, and Asia, overseeing multi-region platform design, security, and cost-aware

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with 6+ years leading engineering teams, including 2+ years as a manager of managers (Director, Senior Manager of Managers, or equivalent scope).
• A real developer background — shipped and operated production systems, and engineers respect your technical judgment.
• Deep DevOps and infrastructure depth: CI/CD, build systems, containers and Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and observability.
• Demonstrated ownership of developer productivity, developer platform, or developer infrastructure at meaningful scale (hundreds of engineers or a large multi-language codebase).
• Hands-on experience with modern AI developer tooling and a clear, opinionated point of view on where agentic development genuinely helps and where it does not.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-team organization as a manager of managers and hire/develop engineering managers and senior ICs.
• Run an org across North American and Asian time zones with inclusive handoffs and on-call fairness.
• Operate as a peer to product and infrastructure leaders, communicating strategy and results credibly to executives.
• Own build systems, CI/CD, artifact and release pipelines across Rails, Go, mobile, and embedded/firmware codebases.
• Drive improvements in velocity metrics: PR lead time, build duration, reliability, and change failure rate.

Skills

Leadership

DevOps

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

LLM evaluation

AI tooling

Distributed teams

Security governance

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Motive is hiring a Director of Developer Platform & Experience to own the execution of an AI-driven development lifecycle and the platform underneath it. You will lead internal developer tooling, cloud agent infrastructure, build and CI/CD systems, and the testing frameworks that enable hundreds of engineers to move quickly with confidence and governance.

This builder's leadership role spans North America, Europe, and Asia, overseeing multi-region platform design, security, and cost-aware