Product Development Lead, AI & Enterprise Platforms
About The Position
AFC is hiring a Product Development Lead to own products connecting its operations, people, and data. Reporting to the Vice President of Technology & Operational Excellence, this role combines hands-on software and AI engineering with leadership of distributed developers and development partners. The goal is to build reliable tools employees use, reduce manual work, and deliver measurable business improvements. The role is based at AFC's Tampa headquarters or Chicago office, with five days per week in the office. The position involves collaboration with U.S. leadership and overseas developers, schedule overlap across time zones, and periodic travel to AFC locations. The hiring process includes a phone screen with People & Talent, a short Predictive Index assessment, an interview with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with leadership.
Requirements
- Typically 7+ years in software engineering, or equivalent demonstrated experience, including technical leadership and ownership of production systems.
- Experience owning enterprise products from discovery and prioritization through launch and adoption, with measurable results.
- Direct experience managing distributed developers or development partners, including coaching, performance management, and delivery across time zones.
- Hands-on production AI experience with LangGraph, including tool use, persistence, human approvals, evaluation, and permission-aware retrieval.
- Strong Python, TypeScript, SQL, and API skills; production AWS and PostgreSQL experience; and practical Supabase familiarity.
- Ability to explain technical decisions clearly to executives, developers, and business users.
Nice To Haves
- Transportation, logistics, ERP, or fleet-system experience, including tools such as McLeod, Samsara, Fullbay, Greenhouse, or Paylocity.
- Experience with LangSmith, AWS Bedrock, infrastructure as code, Docker, or n8n.
- Experience building shared identity, permissions, audit, search, and integration services across enterprise applications.
Responsibilities
- Work with department leaders and frontline employees to map workflows, define requirements, and validate solutions to business problems.
- Own the product roadmap and delivery with the Vice President, maintaining an actionable backlog and clarifying scope, dependencies, cost, and delivery tradeoffs.
- Lead a distributed development team by setting ownership, working-hour overlap, and written handoffs; coach engineers and hold development partners accountable for quality and delivery.
- Build production AI and integrations using LangGraph/LangChain, APIs, and MCP, with reliable state, human approvals, permissions, evaluations, and recovery.
- Design and build critical platform components across AWS, Supabase/PostgreSQL, Python/FastAPI, and TypeScript/React/Next.js.
- Own testing, release readiness, adoption, monitoring, and support handoffs; measure business results as well as features shipped.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting the first of the month after 60 days.
- 401(k).
- 80 hours of PTO per year.
- Weekly pay.
- A clear path to grow, with leaders who know your name.
- 15% target bonus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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