Sr. Director, Engineering – Agentic AI & Service Applications

Vibehackers; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Vibehackers is seeking a Sr. Director of Engineering to lead teams building agentic AI systems and service applications.

The role focuses on setting the technical vision, architecture, and delivery strategies for AI-powered services while aligning with cross-functional partners to scale products and engineering practices. The ideal candidate has extensive senior leadership experience in production-grade AI systems, architecture, and organizational growth, with a proven track record in delivering

Qualifications

• Senior engineering leader with experience overseeing multiple teams and programs.
• Background building production-grade AI or service-oriented systems.
• Proven ability to define technical strategy, architecture, and best practices.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and scaling engineering organizations.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Set technical vision and strategy for agentic AI platforms and service applications.
• Lead and grow engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and organizational design.
• Drive architecture, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for AI services.
• Coordinate with product, design, research, and business stakeholders to prioritize and deliver features.
• Establish engineering processes, metrics, and roadmaps to measure impact and velocity.
• Manage delivery timelines, technical tradeoffs, and risk for large cross-functional programs.

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Technical Strategy

System Architecture

Team Building

Cross-functional Collaboration

Product Delivery

Operational Excellence

Stakeholder Management

Job description

Sr. Director, Engineering – Agentic AI & Service Applications

Focuses on building agentic AI systems and service apps — likely involves hands-on AI product development and integrating AI into developer workflows.

About the Role

Senior engineering leader responsible for leading teams that build agentic AI systems and service applications. Drives technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of AI-powered services while coordinating with cross-functional partners to scale products and engineering practices.

Job Description

Role

No formal job description text was provided. Based on the title “Sr. Director, Engineering – Agentic AI & Service Applications,” this role is a senior engineering leadership position responsible for overseeing engineering efforts focused on agentic AI systems and service-oriented applications.

Key Responsibilities (inferred)

• Set technical vision and strategy for agentic AI platforms and service applications.
• Lead and grow engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and organizational design.
• Drive architecture, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for AI services.
• Coordinate with product, design, research, and business stakeholders to prioritize and deliver features.
• Establish engineering processes, metrics, and roadmaps to measure impact and velocity.
• Manage delivery timelines, technical tradeoffs, and risk for large cross-functional programs.

Requirements (inferred)

• Extensive engineering leadership experience at senior/director level managing multiple teams.
• Strong background in building production-grade AI or service-oriented systems and platforms.
• Experience defining technical strategy, system architecture, and operational best practices.
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, and scale engineering organizations.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills.

Notes

• Original job description content was not provided; the above is an inferred summary based on the job title.

Skills

Engineering Leadership Technical Strategy System Architecture Team Building Cross-functional Collaboration Product Delivery Operational Excellence Stakeholder Management