# Director of Engineering, Marketing Agent Platform at Attentive

- Company: Attentive
- What the company does: Learn more about Attentive—the SMS and email platform that brings your customer interactions to life with advanced AI. Backed by Sequoia and Sapphire.
- Company website: https://attentivemobile.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $340K to $390K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-06
- Apply by: 2026-11-20
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/attentive/jobs/4429776009?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/attentive-director-of-engineering-marketing-agent-platform/

## About the role

Attentive sends billions of messages each year for more than 8,000 brands, helping drive tens of billions of dollars in revenue for our customers. Behind every message is a series of decisions: who should receive it, what it should say, when it should send, which offer to include, and which channel to use. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years managing engineers, 8+ years engineering
- Understands the interface between product engineering, ML, and data science, and is fluent enough to be a real partner. Understands what a model needs from the platform, without needing to own the model
- Has shipped agentic or LLM-backed systems and knows the production tradeoffs of tool use, orchestration, and retrieval
- Strong on distributed, data-heavy systems: streaming, event-driven, cost-aware inference
- Tracks the field closely, has a real view on what shipped last quarter and why it matters, and has killed their own work when something better arrived
- Still writes code. Hires well, gives direct feedback, holds a high performance bar, and builds accountability without drama

Tags: Engineering

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