Director AI-Enabled Engineering

Las Vegas, Nevada

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The Director of AI-Enabled Engineering leads multiple engineering teams and drives the organization’s adoption of AI-augmented software delivery s role is responsible for shaping engineering strategy, optimizing organizational structure, and guiding technology investments and capability development to improve delivery effectiveness, quality, and innovation. Partnering closely with cross-functional leaders, the Director ensures alignment across product, design, and engineering while advancing consistent AI-enabled engineering practices across teams.

The role oversees 2-5 engineering teams through Engineering Managers, with organizational responsibility for approximately 15-50+ engineers.

Own technical delivery, operational excellence, and engineering quality across a major product domain or platform area, ensuring scalable and reliable execution. Define and drive technical strategy in alignment with product roadmaps, business objectives, and the organization’s long-term AI transformation goals. Lead organizational and workforce planning decisions, including team structure, staffing levels, role composition, hiring priorities, and the balance between FTEs, contingent workers, and AI-enabled capacity.

Establish and scale engineering practices and standards across teams, including machine-readable  standards as code  frameworks such as ADRs, linting policies, and AI-enforceable development rules. Partner closely with Product, Design, and Quality Engineering leadership to drive cross-functional strategy, execution alignment, and delivery effectiveness. Advance AI-augmented engineering maturity by reassessing technical feasibility, optimizing the cost and sourcing model, and identifying opportunities where AI fundamentally changes delivery speed, capability, and organizational design.

• 3+ years of experience managing multiple engineering teams through Engineering Managers, with responsibility for organizational delivery, performance, and team development.
• 10+ years of professional engineering experience, including leadership across complex technical systems and large-scale software delivery organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-team engineering organizations, driving alignment, execution, and operational excellence across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Experience in AI-era workforce planning and organizational design, including adapting team structures, role composition, and capacity models to AI-augmented engineering environments.
• Strong capability in defining technology strategy and making investment decisions aligned with product roadmaps, business priorities, and long-term organizational goals.
• Fundamental understanding of  standards as code , including the ability to encode engineering standards into AI-consumable and enforceable formats (e.g., ADRs, linting policies, machine-readable rules), while effectively managing the pace gap between rapidly evolving AI capabilities and business adoption.

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