Senior Director of Agentic Platform & AI Workflows

vibehackers; United States; Remote; USD 300,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO and remote work policies

Equity options

401(k) contributions

Training and continuous learning

Health and wellness insurance

Volunteer time off and ERGs

MacBook purchase program

Enhanced parental leave

Job summary

Lightspeed is hiring a Senior Director of Agentic Engineering in the United States to build and lead a company-wide agentic platform that enables product and technology teams to safely adopt AI agents across the lifecycle. You will define vision and roadmap, assemble teams, and partner across functions to drive measurable adoption and business impact.

You will lead governance, evaluation, and platform capabilities, collaborating with Security, Privacy, Legal, Data, and Architecture to embed

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering or related fields.
• Proven experience leading leaders and senior technical talent in software engineering organizations and building high-performing teams.
• Experience defining and scaling internal/developer/platform capabilities or infrastructure products in multi-product environments.
• Experience building or deploying AI-enabled and agentic systems, including model/tool orchestration, retrieval/context systems, evaluation frameworks, automation, observability, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills with Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Security, Privacy, Legal, and business stakeholders.
• Experience leading organizational change, enablement, and adoption at scale.
• High standards for architecture, engineering quality, operational resilience, responsible AI, security, and cost management.
• Clear communication skills for executives, technical leaders, and cross-functional teams.
• Flexible paid time off and remote work policies
• Equity options
• 401(k) contributions
• Training and continuous learning opportunities
• Health and wellness credit and medical/dental/life/disability insurance
• Volunteer time off and employee interest groups
• Computer purchase program (MacBook)
• Enhanced parental leave

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year vision, strategy, and roadmap for agentic engineering and translate priorities into a platform investment plan.
• Lead teams responsible for shared agentic platform capabilities, including reusable agents, workflow orchestration, context access, tool integrations, evaluation, observability, and governance.
• Create an extensible platform and paved-road experience for cross-functional teams to adopt agentic workflows without rebuilding core capabilities.
• Partner with product and platform leaders across domains to launch and scale high-value agentic use cases.
• Establish rigorous evaluation and observability for agent performance, quality, reliability, security, cost, and human oversight for production use.
• Embed responsible AI, access controls, data protection, auditability, and risk management by design.
• Define operating models, standards, ownership boundaries, enablement, and knowledge-sharing mechanisms for agentic development.
• Drive organizational change and adoption across distributed teams; measure adoption, usage, cycle-time, quality, reliability, cost, and business impact.

Skills

Leadership

Platform engineering

AI fluency

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Architecture

Security and compliance

Observability

Evaluation & metrics

Hiring and coaching

Communication

Operational resilience

Cost management

Program/strategy definition

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Job description

Lightspeed is hiring a Senior Director of Agentic Engineering in the United States to build and lead a company-wide agentic platform that enables product and technology teams to safely adopt AI agents across the lifecycle. You will define vision and roadmap, assemble teams, and partner across functions to drive measurable adoption and business impact.

You will lead governance, evaluation, and platform capabilities, collaborating with Security, Privacy, Legal, Data, and Architecture to embed