Director of AI Engineering, Internal Products
About The Position
Via is hiring a Director of AI Engineering, Internal Products, to lead an engineering team building high-impact internal products using AI-native development practices. The role will also pioneer an AI-powered platform that enables employees—described as “nano engineers”—to create useful, reliable software with AI agents. The position is intended to shape a new engineering discipline, address problems across the business, and increase the company’s capacity to innovate. The director will build products for functions including Finance, HR, and Operations, as well as tools for field teams to coordinate work, surface operational insights, resolve exceptions, manage resources, and make real-time decisions. They will work directly with employees to understand needs and deliver measurable business impact; rethink software development through coding agents, AI-assisted development, automated testing, and new workflows; and lead the platform’s integrations, permissions, infrastructure, testing, deployment, and governance. The role also includes recruiting and developing engineers, defining architecture and engineering standards, establishing the team’s operating model and culture, and partnering with company leadership to identify high-impact opportunities for software and AI.
Requirements
- Strong technical foundation and experience building and shipping production software.
- Experience leading engineers, making architectural decisions, and delivering dependable systems.
- Actively explores and uses modern AI coding tools and agents, and is excited to rethink how engineering teams operate.
- Understands security, permissions, integrations, observability, testing, and maintainability, and can apply an appropriate level of rigor.
- Product-oriented and able to turn ambiguous needs into useful products.
- Comfortable moving between strategy, architecture, hands-on building, and direct work with business teams.
- Interested in enabling other people to solve problems independently.
Responsibilities
- Build internal products and systems for Finance, HR, Operations, and field teams.
- Develop tools that help field teams coordinate work, surface operational insights, resolve exceptions, manage resources, and make better real-time decisions.
- Work directly with employees to understand their needs and turn those insights into products with measurable business impact.
- Use coding agents, AI-assisted development, automated testing, and new engineering workflows to accelerate software delivery.
- Lead development of an AI-powered internal development platform, including its integrations, permissions, infrastructure, testing, deployment, and governance.
- Recruit, develop, and lead engineers.
- Define the team’s architecture, engineering standards, operating model, and culture.
- Partner with company leadership to identify high-impact opportunities for software and AI, and evaluate what to build versus buy.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage.
- Low-cost dental and vision plans.
- 401(k) with company match and vesting.
- Fully paid parental leave for new parents, with extended leave options.
- Mental health benefits, pet insurance, and other wellness perks.
- 20 days of paid time off annually.
- Variable pay and equity as part of the total compensation package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
