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Engineering Director, Agent Context

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Job Summary

Seasoned engineering leader to direct multiple teams building Hex’s AI context platform. You’ll set technical strategy, mentor managers and senior ICs, recruit and scale a 15+ engineer team, and occasionally code to push the platform forward, while collaborating on a cutting-edge context layer and AI-driven products.

Location: New York

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Executive & General Management

Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead an organization of multiple teams working on Hex’s context platform.
•Serve as people manager for line-level engineering managers, tech leads, and senior ICs, setting a high bar and empowering them to do their best work.
•Recruit exceptional engineering talent, growing to a team of at least 15 software engineers.
•Drive technical strategy, review designs, and occasionally get hands on to move the needle.
•Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate the context layer with the growing ecosystem of AI-powered tools and workflows.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 221,000 - 348,500 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Health InsuranceEquity

Key Requirements

•5+ years experience leading engineering teams working on complex, data-intensive, or AI-driven products and SaaS platforms.
•Exceptional ability to identify and design the right technical abstractions to accelerate an ambitious and evolving product vision.
•Deep curiosity for, and strong intuition about, state-of-the-art AI agent behavior and context systems.
•Proven track record as a people manager, with experience (or clear potential) managing managers and scaling high-performing teams.
•Brings a clear playbook for building high-performing teams: setting clear technical standards, hiring and developing strong talent, and creating environments where extraordinary engineers can do their best work.

Experience:5+ yearsAISaaSData-intensive

Skills:TypeScriptReactGraphQLReduxExpressPostgreSQLRedisKubernetesPythonTerraformHelmAWS

Languages:English

Tech Stack:TypeScriptReactGraphQLReduxExpressPostgreSQLRedisKubernetesPythonTerraformHelmAWS

Company Brief

Hex

Builds a collaborative data workspace that combines notebooks, dashboards, and SQL to help data teams explore, analyze, and share insights faster across organizations.

Industry: Data Infrastructure

Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)

Growth: Growth Stage Startup

Funding: Series B

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2020

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