Director of Automation & AI Engineering | Remote First

Edmentum; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with match

Time Away Program

10 paid holidays

2 floating holidays

1 wellness day

Winter office closure

Job summary

Edmentum is seeking an Automation Engineering Director to lead the enterprise automation roadmap, build high‑impact workflows, internal tools, and AI-enabled capabilities across the organization.

This hands‑on leadership role will set standards, governance, and enablement patterns to scale automation safely, partnering with Business Systems, Data, Technology, RevOps, Customer Success, Support, Product, and Finance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in automation/engineering or related tech leadership roles.
• Led complex automation programs including internal tools and low-code/no-code enables.
• Strong API, data flow, ETL, and integration patterns knowledge.
• Hands-on AI experience in automation, design and governance.
• Familiar with Salesforce, ADO/Jira, BI tooling and enterprise ecosystems.
• Sets development standards, QA, release governance, and documentation.
• Product-minded with strong communication and stakeholder leadership.
• Bias for action with sound risk, privacy, and security judgement.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise roadmap for automation, internal tools, and citizen development, applying AI where value is added.
• Design and build workflow automations, integrations, dashboards, and internal tools interfacing with Salesforce, ADO/Jira, data platforms, and other enterprise systems.
• Establish standards for development, QA, release, monitoring, and governance, including responsible AI use, across the organization.
• Partner with Business Systems, Technology, InfoSec, and Legal to ensure security, privacy, and data integrity.
• Build enablement playbooks, office hours, and mentorship routines to turn teams into safe automation contributors.
• Convert proofs of concept into durable, supported capabilities when value is proven.
• Communicate progress and risk to executives and expand the capability as it scales.

Skills

Automation leadership

APIs & data flows

ETL & integration

AI in automation

Salesforce & Jira/ADO

Product-minded

Coaching & stakeholders

Security & governance

Cloud/SaaS ecosystems

Job description

Edmentum is seeking an Automation Engineering Director to lead the enterprise automation roadmap, build high‑impact workflows, internal tools, and AI-enabled capabilities across the organization.

This hands‑on leadership role will set standards, governance, and enablement patterns to scale automation safely, partnering with Business Systems, Data, Technology, RevOps, Customer Success, Support, Product, and Finance.