The opportunity
Asana is hiring a Head of IT Systems Engineering to lead the team that powers how every Asana employee works. Reporting to the Head of IT, this San Francisco-based leader owns the strategy, architecture, and operations behind our SaaS productivity applications, corporate…
What you'll do
Develop the multi-year vision, roadmap, and architecture for Systems: Engineering, aligned with Asana’s business priorities and Asana’s broader AI strategy
Accelerate an Agentified Asana, helping teams across Asana embrace our tools: and reduce the friction of manual work.
Partner with leaders across Asana to build and maintain an efficient and: effective portfolio of SaaS tools to enable all Asanas to do their best work.
Lead, develop, and grow the Client Platform Engineering, Application: Engineering, and Identity & Integrations teams, including hiring, performance management, succession planning, and career development
Own the strategy and operation of corporate endpoint management, SaaS: application management, identity, and the full user lifecycle
Drive IT’s AI strategy, from evaluating and governing platforms such as: Claude, Gemini, and OpenAI to building AI agents and automation for onboarding, access requests, support, and compliance workflows
What they're looking for
- Partner with Security, Legal, and Privacy to set AI usage policies, data: access controls, and vendor risk standards, including identity-based access and data loss prevention for AI tools and integrations
- Set client platform standards and drive excellence in system performance,: patching, and configuration compliance
- Partner with IT Support, IT Infrastructure, and Security leadership to: resolve issues, reduce risk, and improve the employee experience
- Represent Systems Engineering to senior stakeholders, communicating priorities, tradeoffs, and results clearly
