Director, Platform & AI Infrastructure

Root Insurance; United States; Remote; USD 217,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligible

Equity offering

Job summary

Root Insurance is seeking a Director of Platform Systems to lead the teams powering our core engineering infrastructure and AI capabilities. You will own multi-year technical strategy, grow a pipeline of engineering managers, and translate platform investment into measurable business outcomes.

You will drive reliability, security, and operational excellence across shared infrastructure and AI systems, while partnering with product, data, and security to align priorities with Root’s

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering across individual contributor and management roles.
• 7+ years as a people manager, with experience managing managers.
• Demonstrated success leading platform, infrastructure, or AI/ML engineering organizations.
• Experience setting technical strategy across developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or AI systems.
• Proven track record developing engineering managers and building high-performing, inclusive teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy and execution for Root’s platform engineering and AI engineering functions, including leading teams responsible for AI enablement, CI/CD pipelines, AWS infrastructure, and our data engineering platform.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Quantitative Science, Security, and business leadership to align platform priorities to Root’s highest-leverage opportunities.
• Develop and evolve a talent strategy that attracts, retains, and grows top engineering talent across a multi-team organization at all levels.
• Establish and hold teams to a high bar for reliability, security, and operational excellence across shared infrastructure and AI systems.
• Drive the AI platform roadmap, ensuring Root has the internal tooling, data infrastructure, and deployment patterns necessary to responsibly scale AI-powered features.
• Champion developer productivity, ensuring the DevEx and Infrastructure teams reduce toil, accelerate feedback loops, and establish clear standards across Engineering.
• Cultivate strong engineering managers; build the leadership pipeline and ensure each team is well-led, well-staffed, and has a clear charter.
• Work closely with Engineering leadership to improve the effectiveness of the Engineering organization as a whole.
• Identify and remove systemic blockers across teams, owning cross-functional alignment where platform systems intersect with product delivery.

Skills

Platform engineering leadership

AI/ML engineering

Technical strategy

People management

DevEx focus

Job description

Root Insurance is seeking a Director of Platform Systems to lead the teams powering our core engineering infrastructure and AI capabilities. You will own multi-year technical strategy, grow a pipeline of engineering managers, and translate platform investment into measurable business outcomes.

You will drive reliability, security, and operational excellence across shared infrastructure and AI systems, while partnering with product, data, and security to align priorities with Root’s