Director of AI Developer Experience - Platform Engineering

Job summary

Responsibilities

We're looking for a Director of AI Developer Experience to lead our new AI Developer Experience team, reporting to the VP Platform Engineering. You will also own the existing CI and Developer Experience scope.

• Build the tools and workflows that allow agents to write, test, review and merge code, including evaluation, security checks and controls giving agents a fast, reliable feedback…
• Own testing and feedback for the monolith and satellite services, elevating the current CI setup from a CI-run team into an efficient agent-testing capability.
• Own developer productivity measurement in the context of AI DORA, autonomous change rate and complementary indicators and make it visible and actionable to feature teams.
• Lead the inner-loop experience: local and remote environments, onboarding, editor integration and sandboxing.
• Build and organise the team, developing agentic skills internally where needed, as AI adoption shifts from a temporary SWAT team to a permanent one.

What they're looking for

• You have led Developer Experience, Developer Productivity, Developer Infrastructure or Build/CI organisations serving 300+ engineers.
• You have deep technical credibility across CI/CD, build and test infrastructure, monorepo build graphs, test selection, caching, merge queues and flake management.
• You have 5+ years of experience as a manager of managers: hiring, growing and levelling engineering managers and staff-plus ICs.
• You are comfortable setting your own success metrics and being held to them, with strong written communication and structured thinking.
• You are fluent in English.

Tech stack

• TypeScript
• Java
• Python
• React