Director of Engineering, Marketing Agent Platform

Attentive is seeking a Director of Engineering, Marketing Agent Platform to build the engineering systems powering the next generation of autonomous marketing agent decision-making. The platform will help marketers set goals while the system develops strategies, takes action, measures results, and continuously improves. The Director works at the intersection of agentic planning, real-time behavioral signals, platform capabilities, experimentation, and reliable execution at massive scale. New York, NY. Salary: $340,000–$390,000 USD. Posted 2026-10-06.

• 3+ years managing engineers, 8+ years engineering experience. • Has seen and helped build engineering excellence at a top-tier organization — sets an ambitious bar for talent and execution, knows how to hire and lead an A+ team. • Has worked on building large-scale reinforcement learning systems (data, infra, and serving platforms). • 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. • Still writes code. Hires well, gives direct feedback, holds a high performance bar, and builds accountability without drama.