# Director of Engineering, AI Platform at Asana

- Company: Asana
- What the company does: Work management software for teams and AI agents. Plan, automate, and execute critical workflows together. Backed by a16z and Founders Fund.
- Company website: https://asana.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $306K to $360K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.asana.com/jobs/apply/8097669?gh_jid=8097669
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/asana-director-of-engineering-ai-platform/

## 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

Tags: Product Engineering