Founding Director of Engineering - AI-Native Venture Studio

Founding Director of Engineering - AI-Native Venture Studio

We build many products at once with small teams of humans + AI coding agents. You run that engine — you lead the product managers, orchestrate the agent fleets, set the technical bar, and still ship code yourself. Player-coach, not a hands-off manager.

Why this is one of the best seats in AI right now

We're an AI-native venture studio. We stand up new software products — our own and for clients — fast, on top of an in-house agent platform (per-chat sandboxes that scaffold, build, test, deploy and database whole apps; subagents; MCP/skills). Our operating model is humans and AI coding agents on one board: work gets assigned to agents like teammates, and a small team ships what used to take a big one. You'd be the person who makes that machine run across the portfolio.

What you get here that you won't get most places

• Real scope, real ownership. You own delivery across multiple products, lead the PMs/builders who run them, and are the technical truth-source the team ladders up to. This is a build-the-org seat, not a maintain-the-org seat.
• No budget cap for tokens, no babysitting. Best-in-class tooling, frontier models, every AI coding harness and agent framework you want — and nobody counting your tokens. If you've been throttled by a $20 plan while doing real work, that ends here.
• A brilliant CTO to build alongside. You report to a CPO/CTO who is genuinely excellent and hands-on; you'll get sharper fast, and you'll have the air cover to move.
• Frontier work, not maintenance. Agentic systems, net-new products, an internal platform that builds other products. You'll work with the newest models and harnesses the week they drop.
• Top-of-market pay, paid properly and on time. We pay our best people what they're worth and we don't play games with it.
• No politics, no process theater. We're direct with each other — genuine, but not soft. Speed, output, and quality beat ceremony.

What you'll actually do

• Lead the product managers / builder-leads. Each owns a product or venture; you set direction, unblock, review, and raise their tempo and quality. You hire and grow this team.
• Orchestrate humans + AI agents. Break product bets into work for people and for agent fleets, decide what's an agent job vs. deterministic code, and get correct, shipped output back.
• Stay hands-on. You still architect and write code — the hardest plumbing, the risky spikes, the reference implementations. You out-build when you need to.
• Own the portfolio's delivery. Multiple products shipping in parallel, fast, without it turning to mush. You make the build-vs-buy-vs-agent calls and the architecture decisions.
• Set the standards that let a small team ship safely at speed — CI, review, evals, security and logging conventions, the guardrails that keep quality high while agents and people ship weekly.
• Reason commercially. Figure out why a product or funnel isn't working from first principles, and fix the real cause — you think about the business and the user, not just the code.