Work management software for teams and AI agents. Plan, automate, and execute critical workflows together. Backed by a16z and Founders Fund.
About the role
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. In this role, you will lead four key teams through their engineering managers: Context (search, retrieval, and knowledge extraction across the Asana Work Graph), LLM Foundations (model serving, inference infrastructure, provider strategy, and evaluation systems), and AI Efficiency (our center of excellence for cost, quality, and performance...
What they're looking for
- 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
- Platform mindset centered on earning trust, establishing clear standards, providing responsive support, and using data to guide team priorities
- Skilled asynchronous communicator with experience leading distributed teams across time zones using strategy docs and decision memos
- Adaptable decision-maker who takes clear, evidence-based positions but pivots quickly as new data emerges
More about this role
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. In this role, you will lead four key teams through their engineering managers: Context (search, retrieval, and knowledge extraction across the Asana Work Graph), LLM Foundations (model serving, inference infrastructure, provider strategy, and evaluation systems), and AI Efficiency (our center of excellence for cost, quality, and performance standards across all AI workloads). Collaborating with engineering managers and senior technical leaders, you will drive the end-to-end strategy, execution, and architecture that define how humans and AI work together at Asana to build trusted, reliable, high-value product workflows for enterprise customers worldwide. Your mission is to make Asana’s AI platform the most reliable, economical, and performant foundation in the industry for agentic enterprise software, giving Asana the leverage to ship AI products faster than anyone else.
This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and...
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