Director of Engineering, AI Platform

Asana is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead its AI Platform organization — the group that builds foundational systems powering every AI experience across Asana. The Director leads 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 (center of excellence for cost, quality, and performance standards). Mission: make Asana's AI platform the most reliable, economical, and performant foundation in the industry for agentic enterprise software. Hybrid in San Francisco, CA. Salary: $306,000–$360,000.

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years of engineering leadership, including 2+ years managing engineering managers. You've built organizations, not just teams. • 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.