Director of Product Engineering
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
11 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the Role
Were looking for a Director of Product Engineering to lead TwelveLabs agentic platform and related developer experience (APIs SDKs & tooling) that enables developers to build video-native agentswhile also owning flagship end-user applications that validate and accelerate the platform. You will own the full journey from agent capabilities to production user applications. Youll build and lead multiple engineering teams drive execution with speed and predictability and shape the technical direction of our product stack. This is a role for a builder who leads from the front. Youre deeply technical close to the code on the things that matter and energized by the challenge of shipping high-quality products in a fast-moving AI company. You pair strong people leadership with the judgment to make sound technical and product trade-offs under ambiguity.
In This Role You Will
Lead Video Agent Platform Development
Drive the development of TwelveLabs video agent platform:
Video ingestion & indexing that enables complex agentic workflows
Agent orchestration runtime and core capabilities such as planning tool use multi-step reasoning
Tooling for evaluation observability and debugging
Reliability latency and cost-to-serve for agent workflows
Safety/guardrails for agent actions
Own the end-to-end delivery of flagship end-user applications from concept through launch and iteration.
Own the platform product surface: API design and SDKs
Own Delivery & Execution
Own delivery quality and operational excellence across your teams.
Drive fast predictable release cycles: planning weekly reviews and retrospectives that lead to improvements.
Translate product and company goals into clear technical plans milestones and timelines. Make trade-offs explicit and manage dependencies across teams.
Build and Lead the Org
Build lead and grow your teams (through TLMs and Senior/Staff ICs).
Hire exceptional talent and raise the bar continuously. Coach and develop leaders manage performance decisively and build clear growth paths for managers and ICs alike.
Create a culture of ownership speed and craft where teams ship with urgency but never sacrifice reliability or user experience.
Technical Excellence & Architecture
Stay hands-on where it matters most: architectural decisions critical-path code reviews and high-risk technical areas.
Set and enforce a high quality bar across the stack: testing strategy performance reliability observability and CI/CD practices.
Own production readiness: instrumentation incident hygiene latency security and cost-to-serve.
Partner Across the Organization
Collaborate deeply with Product Design and Research to define product direction and ensure engineering execution matches the product vision.
Work closely with modeling teams to translate model capabilities into reliable production-grade product features.
Represent engineering in leadership forums and contribute to company-wide technical strategy.
You May Be a Good Fit If You Have
12 years of professional software engineering experience
7 years of engineering leadership experience leading multiple teams (through Engineering Managers and Staff Individual Contributors).
Experience building intelligent or agentic systems: agent platforms tool-use frameworks multi-step orchestration or autonomous workflows on top of foundation models. You understand both the product surface and the underlying system complexity these require.
Track record of shipping delightful polished end-user experiences you care deeply about what customers see touch and feel and you hold a high bar for product quality responsiveness and -facing
Strong system design instincts with the ability to review architecture challenge assumptions and guide high-quality technical decisions
Demonstrated experience building high-velocity engineering cultures: small batches rapid iteration tight feedback loops and a bias toward getting working software in front of users quickly.
Excellent people leadership: hiring world-class engineers performance management coaching and growing future engineering leaders. Youve built teams that ship fast and sustain quality.
Strong communication skills with the ability to align cross-functional teams around priorities trade-offs and deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with video pipelines video understanding or multimodal systems.
Background in building both developer platforms (APIs SDKs developer tools) and consumer-facing applications.
Startup experience especially in high-growth or early-stage environments.
Prior experience partnering closely with applied ML or research teams to productionize model capabilities.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Go
- Lean
- Management Experience
- React
- Node.js
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Research & Development
- Software Development
- Team Management
- GraphQL
- Leadership Experience
About Company
Recognized by leading researchers as the most performant AI for video understanding; surpassing benchmarks from cloud majors and open-source models.
