
Senior Director of Engineering, AI
Red Ventures
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: North Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $282,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Architect and lead our transition to an AI-first SDLC, embedding AI deeply into development workflows, product management, and technical project management to fundamentally elevate how we build.
- Set the vision for AI across the organization, translating emerging technologies and platforms into practical, scalable advantage.
- Institutionalize AI enablement across architecture, tooling, QA, and delivery practices so that AI becomes part of our operating system, not an experiment.
- Lead two high-impact engineering teams through critical initiatives, including the migration of our telephony provider and a foundational AI-enabled sales platform that will shape the future of our business.
- Operate as a strategic peer to Product leadership, shaping roadmaps, generating new ideas, and co-owning outcomes so engineering helps define direction rather than simply executing tickets.
- Make disciplined, high-leverage build-versus-buy decisions that balance speed, cost, differentiation, and long-term platform strategy.
- Lead and develop Directors, Engineering Managers, and Principal Engineers, building a leadership bench that scales with the business.
- Raise the technical and operational bar while ensuring teams can execute independently at a high level.
- Build an organization that fully embraces AI-assisted development and modern engineering practices.
- Foster a culture that optimizes for experimentation, rapid iteration, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Establish and reinforce architectural standards across Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS, enabling teams to build scalable, secure, and durable systems with confidence.
- Stay at the forefront of AI and modern application development, bringing forward pragmatic innovation that drives measurable impact.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading managers of managers, with a proven track record of transforming engineering organizations to operate in an AI-first model. You have embedded AI into the core of the SDLC, product development, and operational workflows, turning emerging technologies into sustained competitive advantage
- Experience leading organizations of 40+. You know how to scale leaders, not just teams, and have successfully driven large, cross-functional platform or replatforming initiatives in modern web and cloud environments.
- A technical leader who can operate at altitude and at depth. You have led large-scale platform or replatforming initiatives, understand modern web and cloud architectures, and can guide teams toward scalable, high-leverage technical decisions without becoming the bottleneck.
- A strategic partner to product, data, and the business. You challenge assumptions, shape roadmaps, and make disciplined build versus buy decisions that balance speed, differentiation, and long-term platform advantage.
Benefits
- Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
- Life Insurance
- Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Holiday Pay
- 401(k) with match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential. That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy. Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI-first SDLCNext.jsNode.jsTypeScriptAWSsoftware engineeringplatform initiativescloud architecturesscalable systemstechnical project management
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic thinkingcommunicationcollaborationdecision makinginnovationmentoringorganizational developmentproblem solvingcontinuous learning