Director of Engineering, AI Agents
Asana · San Francisco
About this role
We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader to lead and scale Asana’s flagship **AI Teammates** pillar within our Core/AI Organization. Reporting directly to the **Head of Engineering, AI & AWM**, you’ll oversee an engineering area encompassing four key teams: - **AI Teammates Platform (AITP)** - **AI Teammates Experience (AITX)** - **AI Chat Experience** - **Agent Orchestration** In this role, you’ll lead engineering managers and senior technical leaders to drive the end-to-end strategy, execution, and architecture that define how humans and AI collaborate in Asana—turning frontier LLM capabilities into **trusted, reliable, high-value product workflows** for enterprise customers worldwide. --- ## What you’ll achieve - **Drive strategy & execution across the AI Teammates pillar:** Lead, set direction, and align goals/metrics across four core engineering teams (Platform, Experience, Chat, and Agent Orchestration) to execute on Asana’s flagship AI vision while balancing business, customer, and technical needs. - **Architect enterprise-grade AI platforms & systems:** Own end-to-end technical strategy across model rollouts, eval infrastructure, tool orchestration, **Model Context Protocol (MCP)**, and proactivity engines—enabling Asana to operate reliable agentic systems for top-tier enterprise customers. - **Define next-generation human-AI collaboration:** Lead product and platform engineering teams delivering full-screen and docked chat surfaces, discovery/onboarding flows, in-product explainability, human-in-the-loop workflows, and ROI/governance experiences for administrators. - **Pioneer multi-system agent orchestration:** Build integrations, Agent Skills, and MCP frameworks that allow AI Teammates to act as the central control point for complex, multi-step workflows across external tools like **Slack**, **Salesforce**, coding agents, and internal systems. - **Scale engineering leadership & culture:** Plan and implement scaling of your engineering organization—recruit, close, and retain top engineering talent and managers, develop leadership capabilities across teams, and foster an inclusive environment centered on engineering excellence and psychological safety. - **Bridge cross-functional & external strategic alignment:** Align technical, product, and business perspectives across R&D, Product, Design, Security, and Legal, while maintaining close strategic partnerships with frontier AI labs (e.g., **OpenAI**, **Anthropic**). --- ## Location & schedule This role is based in our **San Francisco** office with an **office-centric hybrid** schedule: - Standard in-office days: **Monday, Tuesday, Thursday** - Option to work from home: **Wednesday** - **Friday** work-from-home depends on the type of work and the teams you partner with If you’re interviewing, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.
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