Global Engineering Director | People Tech

Nubank•Palo Alto, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Nubank is seeking a Global People Data & Tech Director to lead the design and construction of a next-generation People & Culture infrastructure. This role is for an individual who sees HR technology as an industry ripe for disruption and aims to build a new system from the ground up, leveraging AI agents for operations. The focus is on creating an agent-native HR stack, a robust data foundation, and a scalable platform that can support global operations across 40+ markets. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering and technology leadership, with a deep understanding of data architecture, agentic systems, and scaling impact without proportional headcount growth. This is an opportunity to redefine HR technology within a technically ambitious, high-growth company.

Requirements

10+ years in software engineering and technology leadership, with demonstrated experience owning large-scale production systems from architecture through operation.
Deep fluency in data architecture and data modelling.
Hands-on experience building with or designing for agentic systems: familiarity with LLM-based reasoning, tool use, multi-agent orchestration, and the failure modes that come with autonomous execution.
Experience leading platform or infrastructure products.
Proven ability to scale impact without scaling headcount: through leverage, tooling, great architecture, and a culture that defaults to automation before process.
Strong engineering management skills, including the ability to hire, develop, and retain senior technical talent and engineering leaders.

Nice To Haves

Experience building products that operate across multiple legal jurisdictions, especially where regulatory variance is a first-class design constraint.
Background in developer platforms, internal tooling, or B2B SaaS.
Familiarity with the People & Culture domain as a product builder.
Experience operating within a high-growth technology company where ambiguity is the norm.

Responsibilities

Define the architecture for a People & Culture platform where agents are first-class citizens, capable of executing hiring, onboarding, payroll, compliance, and performance workflows with minimal human intervention.
Define the human-in-the-loop model, specifying which decisions require human review, through what interfaces, and with what level of latency.
Identify and eliminate workflows that are no longer necessary.
Architect the People data layer to serve as the substrate for agent reasoning, predictive analytics, and LLM-powered insight generation.
Ensure the data model is jurisdiction-aware from day one, accommodating legal, cultural, and operational variance across 40+ markets.
Drive the transition from fragmented HR data silos to a unified, real-time, auditable data layer.
Apply agentic development practices to the team's engineering process, using agents to write, test, review, and deploy code.
Lead the development of real-time AI-powered employee experiences, including intelligent copilots, proactive guidance systems, and autonomous support channels.
Advance Nubank's application of large language models to unstructured People data to generate organizational insights.
Define the comprehensive HR platform roadmap, including what to build, what to integrate, and what not to own, with a bias toward deep integration.
Ensure the platform is designed for global scale from the start, supporting multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction, multi-language, and operable across legal entities.
Bridge strategic vision with hands-on execution, staying close to the codebase and architecture.
Build and lead a high-performing, deliberately lean team that leverages agents for efficiency.
Develop senior technical leaders who can own domains end-to-end.
Foster a culture of intellectual honesty that questions inherited assumptions about HR technology.