Tech Lead, AI Teammates
Asana · San Francisco
About this role
**AI Teammates — Tech Lead (Technical Lead)** Asana’s **AI Teammates** are autonomous agents embedded directly into enterprise workflows—reasoning, acting, and proactively driving work forward. The **AI Teammates Platform (AITP)** team builds the execution engine and platform layer that makes these agents effective, reliable, and scalable. You’ll lead the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for the **AI Teammates Platform**, bridging frontier AI capability with enterprise-grade software engineering. You’ll partner closely with frontier model providers and build systems that scale to **millions of users**. --- ### What you’ll achieve - Set the technical strategy for the **execution engine**, **tool orchestration**, and **platform APIs**—advocating for engineering-driven investments that keep systems flexible, reliable, and maintainable. - Lead the team to continually improve across **clean architecture**, **systems reliability**, and **evaluation methodologies**, enabling engineers to deliver at high velocity and grow their skills. - Collaborate across Engineering and serve as a technical counterpart to the AI Teammates Engineering Manager, partnering with external model providers (e.g., **OpenAI, Anthropic**) and representing platform capabilities across teams. - Partner with **Product Management, Design, Data Science, and User Research** to understand agentic work patterns and propose solutions that make AI Teammates effective and trustworthy. - Architect and own the **composable platform foundation**, enabling other product engineering teams to build agentic capabilities in a self-serve manner. - Oversee high-impact initiatives—from **proactivity** and **MCP integrations** to **model evals**, **latency tuning**, and **cost optimization**—ensuring safe scaling with frontier LLM updates. --- ### About you - **6+ years** of software engineering experience in large codebases, with strong **backend/systems/reliability** fundamentals. - **2+ years** leading engineering teams or serving as a technical lead, with a track record in technical strategy, timeline planning, and risk mitigation. - Strong interest or experience in **Applied AI / Agentic Systems** (agent orchestration, tool integration, model evaluation frameworks, RAG, production LLM observability). - Quick learner comfortable moving across contexts and codebases to unblock teammates. - Deep project management experience (timeline planning, risk mitigation, stakeholder management). - Passion for mentoring engineers and delivering thoughtful, candid feedback. - Commitment to an inclusive culture and **psychological safety**. --- ### Location & schedule - Based in **San Francisco** with an **office-centric hybrid** schedule: - Standard in-office days: **Monday, Tuesday, Thursday** - Work from home: **Wednesday** (most Asanas) - **Friday** WFH depends on team/work needs (your recruiter will share details). --- ### Compensation & benefits (high level) - Estimated base salary range: **$248,000 – $282,000** (final offer varies by market and qualifications). - Additional compensation may include **equity**, and benefits may include items such as **mental health/wellness**, **career coaching**, **family building benefits**, and **retirement/savings plans**. --- ### About Asana Asana helps teams orchestrate work—from small projects to strategic initiatives—so millions of teams can achieve their goals faster. Asana is committed to building a diverse, equitable, a
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