Senior Director - Data & AI Engineering

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on, product-minded Senior Director of Data & AI Engineering to lead our newly formed, elite Data & AI team. In this role, you will lead a highly specialized team comprising data and AI/ML architects.

You are the bridge between deep technical innovation and product delivery. You will not only manage and guide these world-class engineers, but you will also remain actively hands-on—writing code, architecting solutions, and directly collaborating with Product Management, UX, and Core Security Platform teams to transform complex telemetry (logs, configs, alerts) into shipped, high-value AI features.

Key Responsibilities

_ 1. Technical Leadership & People Management_
- Lead an Elite Team: Manage, mentor, and align with a highly senior team of architects. You must possess the deep technical credibility to lead peers of this caliber.
- Keep a "Player-Coach" Mindset: Remain actively hands-on. You will contribute to architecture design, write code where needed, perform high-level reviews,



and unblock complex technical bottlenecks alongside your team.
- Cultivate a High-Performance Culture: Foster an workplace of rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and rigorous engineering standards, balancing cutting-edge AI research with disciplined production deployment.

_2. Cross-Functional Product Development & Strategy_
- Translate Tech into Product: Partner closely with Product Management to define the AI roadmap, translating complex engineering breakthroughs into clear, highly valuable customer features.
- Bridge the Gap with Core Security Teams: Collaborate with our core security researchers and platform engineers to seamlessly integrate our data and AI runtime pipelines into the broader product ecosystem.
- Design User-Centric AI Experiences: Work with UX designers to ensure AI-driven recommendations, summaries, and analyses are intuitive, actionable, and seamlessly woven into user workfl

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