As Director of Engineering for Operations & AI Automation, you'll own the engine room of the Magnit Global VMS platform, the systems that power clients, suppliers and workers with intelligent workflows, and the data layer underneath. You'll lead 3–4 teams building agentic capabilities, automation, and insights that turn manual operational work into product. You'll set technical direction, raise the engineering bar, and partner closely with Product, Operations to ship outcomes that customers feel.
This is both hands-on-the-keyboard, hands-on-the-strategy role for a leader who has shipped real AI into production, not slideware, and who knows the difference between a demo and a system that large number of enterprise users depend on at 9am Monday.
What you'll do

Lead the org. Manage and grow 3–4 engineering teams across the product line. Hire, coach, and develop managers and senior ICs.
Set technical direction. Own architecture, delivery priorities, and engineering standards across your teams. Make the trade-offs that matter, build vs. buy, speed vs. reliability, automation vs.



headcount.
Build with AI, not around it. Ship production-grade AI agents, RAG systems, workflow orchestration, and tool-calling capabilities. Drive measurable reduction in manual work and meaningful lift in operational accuracy.
Turn operations into product. Partner with Product, Operations to convert recurring operational pain into reusable platform capabilities, anomaly detection, intelligent reporting, decision support, automated workflows.
Raise the engineering bar. Drive excellence across architecture, code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and release management. Improve delivery predictability and platform reliability quarter over quarter.
Use data as a product asset. Mine platform data for risk signals, efficiency gaps, and product opportunities. Make data-driven prioritization the default, not the exception.
Plan capacity, ruthlessly. Balance roadmap delivery, automation

📌 Director, Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Magnit
📍 Bengaluru