Director, AI Product Development
About the role
About CentralReach
CentralReach is a leading provider of autism and IDD care software for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), multidisciplinary therapy, and special education. Trusted by more than 200,000 users, we enable therapy providers, educators, and employers to scale the way they deliver ABA and related therapies with innovative technology, market-leading industry expertise, and world-class customer satisfaction.
Role Overview
CentralReach’s AI team operates as an AI Foundry: a cross-functional group that rapidly builds, validates, and scales AI-enabled product capabilities. The Director, AI Product Development is the senior-most engineer on the AI team and sets the technical bar for how AI-powered product experiences are designed, built, evaluated, and operated.
This role is hands-on and deeply engaged across the early stages of development of AI applications, from early prototypes and pilots through production hardening and scale. They partner closely with AI product builders, Product organization leaders and DevOps to translate customer problems into reliable AI features that integrate seamlessly with CentralReach’s core workflows. They also establish engineering standards for AI application development: evaluation and quality thresholds, observability, guardrails and performance management.
Key Accountabilities
Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence
- Serve as the technical lead for AI application development within the AI Foundry, setting standards for code quality, architecture, and delivery
- Lead by doing: design and implement core AI application components, critical services, and integration layers
- Mentor AI engineers; raise the bar on engineering rigor and AI