Director of AI-Driven Engineering & Delivery

Nexcess; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexcess in the United States seeks an executive to run and own the product engineering organization end to end, overseeing architecture, delivery, and the engineering roadmap. The role focuses on building an engineering organization that ships fast and reliably, with AI-enabled processes and strong business alignment.

You will lead teams across time zones, shape the hiring plan, and implement measurable improvements using DORA metrics, shared tooling, and robust hosting platforms.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ leading engineering teams, and experience leading managers.
• Evidence you have made an engineering organization measurably faster. You instrumented DORA or an equivalent, you know your before-and-after numbers, and can walk through what you changed and what broke while it settled.
• Real, hands‑on AI‑assisted engineering at organizational scale, with impact you can quantify. Not a pilot and not a vendor rollout: adoption driven across teams, agentic tooling you use yourself every week, your own harness you can describe, a spec an agent executed, the review gates you shipped.
• Experience redesigning how teams and work are organized: boundaries, ownership, cadence, and living with the result.
• Delivered and modernized complex software through multiple teams, including reassessing scope or dates with senior stakeholders and absorbing the consequences.
• Hands‑on enough to review a design, read a change and hold a defensible technical position without owning the implementation.
• Owned a hiring plan end to end and held a bar; run software in production with real accountability for availability; led remote teams across time zones with vendor squads inside them, on agreements you shaped.
• Managed hosting, cloud or another high‑availability service business is a must.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture design, delivery and engineering roadmap for your teams. Build the partnership with Product: shape it together, commit to it, and then deliver it.
• Run delivery on monthly cycles with an explicit cut line. Scope, design and deliver demonstrable value each month. Your teams must have an evidence backed ability to meet commitments.

Skills

Engineering leadership

DORA metrics

AI-assisted engineering

Hiring planning

Remote teams management

Hosting platforms experience

Tools

Stripe payments

cPanel

InterWorx

WordPress

WooCommerce

Magento

Shopware

Linux

VMware

Job description

Nexcess in the United States seeks an executive to run and own the product engineering organization end to end, overseeing architecture, delivery, and the engineering roadmap. The role focuses on building an engineering organization that ships fast and reliably, with AI-enabled processes and strong business alignment.

You will lead teams across time zones, shape the hiring plan, and implement measurable improvements using DORA metrics, shared tooling, and robust hosting platforms.