Founding Director of Engineering (Remote)

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, and making build-vs-buy-vs-agent calls
• Own the portfolio's delivery, making architecture decisions and setting standards for CI, review, evals, security, and logging conventions
• Reason commercially, figuring out why a product or funnel isn't working and fixing the real cause

Requirements:

• You're a player-coach, leading people and shipping code
• 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
• You've shipped, fast, more than once, ideally founding or leading 0→1 products
• You see the whole board, reasoning about the business and the user
• You're high-agency, making sensible calls and documenting assumptions

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
• No politics, no process theater

Requirements

Who you are

• Player-coach with hands-on engineering experience
• Agentic-engineering native with experience building with AI
• Proven track record of leading teams and shipping products
• Strong technical skills with ability to reason commercially

Signals we screen for

• Experience leading engineering and/or product teams
• Hands-on agentic depth with LLMs and agent frameworks
• Portfolio of shipped products
• Commercial fluency
• Range and versatility in technical and business skills

What this role is NOT

• Not a hands-off manager
• Not a pure IC
• Not a process/ceremony role
• Not a place that needs all-nighters

How to apply

• Send a Loom recording showcasing your experience and skills
• Complete a studio teardown exercise
• Provide one-line answer on recent AI/agent usage