Director of AI Product Engineering

Rozgoo; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Mixpanel in San Francisco seeks a Director of Engineering to own the core analytics platform, grow multiple engineering teams, and drive AI-first product experiences. You will partner with Product and Design to translate bold ideas into reliable, scalable solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

The role requires a proven leader who builds teams, mentors engineers, and champions ownership. You will shape strategy, improve retention, and ensure execution excellence across the

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams to deliver measurable value.
• Track record hiring, coaching, and building high-performance cultures.
• Strong strategic thinking to align product, design, and engineering.
• Experience with analytics platforms or AI-first products is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams across different product areas with a high bar for execution.
• Develop AI-first product analytics for the next generation of software.
• Hire well, coach deeply, and foster ownership and pride in what is shipped.
• Shape direction alongside Product and Design, turning big ideas into focused execution.
• Set the technical bar, empower tech leads with clarity and trust, and protect the systems your teams own.
• Identify and deliver strategies that create real value for customers and the business.

Skills

Leadership

People management

AI product analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit mixpanel.com to learn more.

About Mixpanel Engineering

Mixpanel Engineering is a small, fast-moving team focused on delivering real value to customers. We build powerful AI-powered product analytics while obsessing over clarity, simplicity, and delight. Product innovation drives our business, and product engineering teams own that responsibility.

The Product Engineering org is responsible for building our core product that delivers insights to customers. These teams are defining the next phase of our AI-led product experiences and are uniquely positioned to build the next generation of AI-first products. We build the tools product managers rely on to understand users, protect revenue, and scale companies. As we move toward IPO, our work evolves from showing what happened to explaining why. This shift unlocks deeper insight, better decisions, and the next generation of analytics.

About the Role

The Director of Engineering, reporting directly to the CTO, will be responsible for all of Product Engineering. You'll own the core analysis experience that product managers and engineers rely on daily, the growth infrastructure that brings new builders into the product and keeps them there, and the platform capabilities that let teams test and ship with confidence. Success is measured by revenue and retention.

What You'll Do

• Lead multiple engineering teams across different product areas. This role is for someone who develops people seriously and holds a high bar for execution.
• Build an AI first product analytics for the next generation of software
• Hire well, coach deeply, and build a culture where engineers feel ownership and pride in what they ship.
• Shape direction alongside Product and Design, turning big ideas into focused execution without losing quality.
• Set the technical bar. Empower tech leads with clarity and trust, and protect the systems your teams own.
• Identify and deliver strategies that create real value for customers and the business.