Director, Platform & AI Systems — Remote-First

joinroot; United States; A distancia; USD 217.000 - 299.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Root is seeking a Director, Platform Systems to lead our platform and AI engineering functions, unifying data infrastructure, CI/CD, and AWS-based services. This leader will set multi-year technical strategy, grow the management pipeline, and translate platform investments into measurable business outcomes.

You will collaborate with product, data science, security, and business leadership to prioritize high-leverage opportunities, attract top talent, and raise the bar for reliability and

Formación

• 12+ years in software engineering across IC and management.
• 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.
• Excellent communication and influence skills with both engineering peers and executive stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making principled decisions with incomplete information.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

People management

Platform engineering

AI/ML engineering

Technical strategy

Executive communication

Herramientas

AWS

Descripción del empleo

Root is seeking a Director, Platform Systems to lead our platform and AI engineering functions, unifying data infrastructure, CI/CD, and AWS-based services. This leader will set multi-year technical strategy, grow the management pipeline, and translate platform investments into measurable business outcomes.

You will collaborate with product, data science, security, and business leadership to prioritize high-leverage opportunities, attract top talent, and raise the bar for reliability and