The opportunity
We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our AI Platform organization. This group builds the foundational systems powering every AI experience across Asana.
What they're looking for
- Drive Cross-Functional Partnerships: Partner cross-functionally with product, go-to-market, and finance leaders to tie platform investments directly to business performance, unit margins, and enterprise trust.
- + years of software engineering experience with 5+ years of engineering: leadership, including 2+ years managing engineering managers. You've built organizations, not just teams: you've hired and developed managers, restructured when the mission changed, and held a bar for both.
- Proven track record of using AI tools daily, with deep expertise in serving: architectures, inference providers, agentic frameworks, RAG architectures, and scale evaluation systems.
- Proven experience optimizing infrastructure costs and unit economics at scale: with concrete metrics and clear trade-offs.