Head of Engineering (Core Product & Collaborative Work Management)

Asana•New York, NY

About The Position

Asana is seeking an experienced engineering leader to own and scale the foundational experiences of our Core product, the heart of our collaborative work management platform. In this era of intelligent automation, you will lead the teams responsible for the essential features millions of users rely on daily, while reimagining the core Asana experience through the lens of AI-native workflows. This role sits within our Product Engineering Group and reports directly to the CTO. You will be responsible for building the systems that enable seamless collaboration at scale, ensuring Asana remains the most intuitive platform for teams by leveraging AI to reduce “work about work” and accelerate human productivity.

Requirements

Experienced engineering leader
Experience scaling foundational experiences of a core product
Experience leading teams responsible for essential features used by millions daily
Experience reimagining core platform experiences through AI-native workflows
Experience building systems for seamless collaboration at scale
Experience leveraging AI to reduce "work about work" and accelerate human productivity
Experience scaling to support complex workflows
Experience balancing powerful functionality with AI-driven simplicity
Experience owning technical strategy for central work management features (tasks, projects, portfolios)
Experience optimizing architecture for LLM-powered features, real-time data processing, and predictive work patterns
Experience partnering with Product and Design to define future platform capabilities
Experience evolving a platform from a system of record to a system of intelligence
Experience building "AI-first" platform capabilities
Experience providing robust APIs and data structures for intelligent agents, automated status reporting, and smart resource allocation
Experience driving engineering excellence in AI implementation
Experience establishing best practices for prompt engineering, model integration, and data privacy
Experience growing engineering leaders
Experience mentoring managers and engineers
Experience guiding teams toward generative and agentic product architectures
Experience representing product capabilities to strategic customers

Responsibilities

Lead the Core Product/CWM engineering organization as we scale to support complex workflows, balancing powerful functionality with AI-driven simplicity that keeps the user experience effortless.
Own the technical strategy for Asana’s central work management features (tasks, projects, portfolios), ensuring our architecture is optimized to support LLM-powered features, real-time data processing, and predictive work patterns.
Partner with Product and Design to define the future of AI-assisted collaboration, evolving our platform from a system of record to a system of intelligence that proactively helps teams organize and prioritize.
Build “AI-first” platform capabilities that allow other teams to leverage our core work graph, providing the robust APIs and data structures necessary to power intelligent agents, automated status reporting, and smart resource allocation.
Drive engineering excellence in AI implementation, establishing best practices for prompt engineering, model integration, and data privacy within the core product lifecycle.
Grow engineering leaders by mentoring managers and engineers to think beyond traditional CRUD applications toward generative and agentic product architectures.
Represent Asana’s intelligent CWM capabilities to strategic customers, demonstrating how our core platform uses AI to solve their most complex coordination challenges.