Director of Engineering Data and AIML Platforms

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Were seeking a Director of Engineering to own the engineering for AI/ML and Core data platforms for VTS products. This role will drive new AI initiatives to increase data quality and usage around our most critical datasets. Youll also be responsible for simplifying how data comes into VTS. Youll be leading a motivated results-oriented team through the next phase of our business while driving efficient engineering processes and coaching team members.

What Makes This Job Awesome

5 years of engineering management experience including managing managers and mentoring high-performing cross-functional teams.
Provide thought leadership on the practical application of GenAI LLMs and emerging ML/NLP technologies to solve real-world product and engineering challenges.
Define and uphold AI governance standards ensuring fairness transparency privacy compliance and responsible development practices.
Translate advanced AI/ML concepts into actionable strategies that influence product direction and create business value.
Provide leadership on a high-performing Data platform team
Mentor manager(s) and staff-level engineers fostering a collaborative inclusive and high-performing team culture.
Champion DevOps excellence through strong observability reliability and continuous improvement practices.
Drive data literacy and scalable data management patterns across engineering.
Evaluate pilot and scale emerging technologiesincluding AI agents multimodal interfaces and rapid prototyping environmentsto improve customer experience and operational efficiency.
Develop and track product success and operational excellence metrics to inform decisions and drive outcomes.

What Makes You a Great Fit To succeed in this role:

Engineering management experience including managing managers and mentoring high-performing cross-functional teams.
Proven track record of delivering impactful AI solutions that solve complex business challenges and create strategic value.
Deep technical expertise in GenAI LLMs and modern AI/ML frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow PyTorch) with hands-on experience integrating LLMs and designing prompt-based applications.
Strong contributor to technical strategy and product directionbalancing innovation ethical AI governance and business alignment.
Skilled at evaluating AI/ML trade-offs mitigating risks and aligning technical investments with customer needs and product goals.
High degree of creativity and passion for responsible AI with experience driving ethical standards and compliance in AI product development.
Demonstrated ability to foster collaborative inclusive team cultures that build and scale high-quality AI-augmented products.
Effective communicator and storytellerable to distill complex AI/ML topics to align and influence stakeholders across product sales marketing and customer success.
Experienced in recruiting developing and promoting emerging talent with a strong focus on coaching mentorship and technical growth.
Thrive in dynamic fast-paced startup environments with strong strategic thinking adaptability and a bias toward action.

ABOUT OUR TEAM:

The VTS Product-Engineering-Design-QA organization is about 120 plus people
We work in small cross-functional teams that include product managers product designers engineers and QA
We value continuous learning in our everyday work
We deploy daily and rely heavily on automated testing and CI and feature flags
We use agile development and lean startup principles and practices to deliver products
Our stack: AWS Spark Airflow Python Scala
Learn more about us on our engineering blog

ABOUT VTS

VTS is the industrys only technology platform that unifies owners operators brokers and their customers across the commercial and residential real estate 2013 VTS revolutionized the commercial real estate industrys leasing operations with what is now VTS Lease. Today the VTS Platform is the largest first-party insights and collaboration engine in the industry transforming how strategic decisions are made and executed by real estate professionals across the globe.

With the VTS Platform consisting of VTS Lease VTS Market VTS Activate and VTS Data every stakeholder in real estate is given real-time market information and workflow tools to do their job with unparalleled speed and intelligence. VTS is the global leader with more than 60% of Class A office space in the U.S. and 13 billion square feet of office residential retail and industrial space is managed through our platform worldwide. VTS is utilized by over 45000 professionals and over 1.2 million total users including industry-leading customers such as Blackstone Brookfield Properties LaSalle Investment Management Hines BXP Oxford Properties JLL and CBRE.

VTS maintains offices in New York City London Toronto Chicago San Francisco.

To learn more about VTS and view our open roles visit us at or follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS) or LinkedIn.

Job applicants should note the following:

Within 45 days of any scheduled interview (or the last interview in a series of interviews) the Company will inform any interviewed applicant as to whether a hiring decision has been made. Please note this requirement does not apply to any preliminary screening process an applicant participates in prior to the interview process.
The company reserves the right and may rely on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The company currently uses AI to screen applicant(s) and may expand the useof its AI to include the assessment and selection of applicant(s) in the future.
This posting has been generated for the purposes of filling an existing vacancy

DE&I Commitment

VTS embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are the better our work will be.

VTS will provide any necessary accommodation during the recruitment and selection process to an employee or applicant with a disability.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation at any time during the recruitment process please let us know at

Required Experience:

Director