Remote-First Director, AI Platforms

Bazeta; United States; Remote; USD 217,000 - 319,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

RSUs / equity

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Life360 is seeking a Director of AI Platforms to lead the team building scalable AI foundations that power our products and members. You will shape how AI inference and agent-powered features are delivered at scale, driving adoption and defining measurable outcomes.

You will report to the CIO and collaborate across leadership to align security, privacy, and product goals in a remote-first environment. The role offers a strong equity package and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams that build platforms or infrastructure.
• Experience building and operating production AI systems, including agentic workflows and LLM integrations.
• Working knowledge of MCP and agent orchestration.
• Familiarity with AI inference in production, including serving, latency, reliability, provider management, and cost.
• Experience driving the adoption of new engineering practices across a large engineering organization through influence.
• Hands-on technical judgment and ability to review architecture.
• Clear communication with executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for the AI Platforms team with a roadmap balancing internal needs and product direction.
• Lead and scale the team by hiring and developing current members.
• Build and evolve the shared AI platform: model access, routing, agent runtime, MCP integrations, evals, identity, and cost controls.
• Define and own our AI end-user platforms and enable a multiplayer ecosystem with agents.
• Partner with security, privacy and legal to build data safeguards into the platform from day one.
• Define and report outcomes like adoption, quality, cost per outcome, and time to ship.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Production AI systems

Platform engineering

Architectural judgment

Tools

LLM integrations

MCP

Agent orchestration

Job description

Life360 is seeking a Director of AI Platforms to lead the team building scalable AI foundations that power our products and members. You will shape how AI inference and agent-powered features are delivered at scale, driving adoption and defining measurable outcomes.

You will report to the CIO and collaborate across leadership to align security, privacy, and product goals in a remote-first environment. The role offers a strong equity package and comprehensive benefits.