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Founding Director of Engineering (Remote)

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remote executive full-time $15,000–$40,000 / month USD

First indexed 25 Jul 2026

Description

We build many products at once with small teams of humans + AI coding agents. You run that engine , you lead the product managers, orchestrate the agent fleets, set the technical bar, and still ship code yourself.

As the Founding Director of Engineering, you will:

  • Lead the product managers / builder-leads, setting direction, unblocking, reviewing, and raising their tempo and quality
  • Orchestrate humans + AI agents, breaking product bets into work for people and for agent fleets
  • Stay hands-on, architecting and writing code, especially for the hardest plumbing, risky spikes, and reference implementations
  • Own the portfolio's delivery, making build-vs-buy-vs-agent calls and architecture decisions
  • Set the standards for safe shipping at speed, including CI, review, evals, security, and logging conventions

Requirements:

  • You're a player-coach, leading people and shipping code yourself
  • You're an agentic-engineering native, building with AI at the systems level
  • You get leverage through others, having led engineers and/or product managers to produce more than you could alone
  • You've shipped products fast, ideally founding or leading 0→1 products
  • You see the whole board, reasoning about the business and the user

Benefits:

  • Top-of-market pay, roughly $15,000–$40,000 / month USD
  • No budget cap for tokens, best-in-class tooling, and frontier models
  • A brilliant CTO to build alongside
  • Frontier work, not maintenance

How to apply

Send a Loom recording showing something real you've led or built, a studio teardown, and one line on something in AI/agents you've started using recently.

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