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We are a fast growing, dynamic business with a global customer base of more than 30,000 and a team of over 300 in the USA, Australia, UK, Canada, New Zealand and LATAM.\nThe Actionstep Engineering team contributes to developing, maintaining, and running Actionstep through the delivery of industry leading technology, operations, and analysis. Actionstep Engineering consists of squads of cross-discipline software engineers, analysts and product experts who work collaboratively to enhance Actionstep software for our customers.\n\nHow we build\nEvery team at Actionstep builds with AI as part of the development lifecycle. Engineers and product managers decide what gets built, write the specs, and review and own what ships, while AI agents do much of the building and testing. We treat the harness, i.e. the tooling, context and review checkpoints our teams build with, as a product in its own right. We measure delivery on one scoreboard that reads throughput beside quality, so speed never gets counted without quality next to it.\nOur platform runs on TypeScript services, React micro-frontends and a shared design system, on AWS across multiple regions.\nOur Product Development teams work across North America, the UK and Asia-Pacific. Each team works within one time-zone band, so its members share a working day. This role leads teams in both North America and Asia-Pacific.\nEngineering Director - AI Products\nAI Products owns the AI features built into our products along with the AI, data and workflow capabilities that the power our platform, such as agents, open APIs and MCP, search, analytics and workflow automation.\nYou lead several teams through their engineering managers, and work alongside a product lead and product managers for each area.\nLocation -- Denver, Colorado (hybrid).\nIn this role, you will:\nLead through managers -- you set direction, standards and priorities for a group of teams, and grow the managers who run them.\nShip AI to production -- you work with product to turn the AI roadmap into features firms use every day, with permissions, privacy and audit built in.\nBuild shared platform capabilities -- you make sure agents, APIs, search, data and workflow work reliably for every Actionstep product.\nRun AI responsibly and efficiently -- you build evaluation, observability and cost discipline into how AI features are designed and run.\nRaise the bar on how we build -- you bring every team in the group onto our AI development lifecycle and make delivery predictable.\nLead across time zones -- you run a group split between North America and Asia-Pacific, which means some early or late calls.\n\nOther Responsibilities:\nUndertaking any other reasonable duties as required\nRequirements\nREQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS\nDirector-level leadership -- you have led multiple teams through engineering managers.\nAI in production -- you have shipped AI or agent features in a production SaaS product, including the evaluation, permissions, observability and cost management that come with them.\nLed AI PDLC adoption -- you have moved an engineering org to AI-driven development and can show what changed, with data. 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