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You will not own release gates. You will not sign off on builds. Engineers and Product retain full ownership of what they ship and when. Your team's mandate is to be the independent, automation-first lens on whether what's running in production actually matches what we said we were building, and to make any drift visible to the people who can fix it.\n\nYou will architect and champion a continuous, automated quality-auditing ecosystem. Instead of acting as a release gatekeeper, this leader will build smart automation and AI-driven agents to continuously evaluate production against company standards, providing the high-fidelity feedback loops our engineering, product, and business teams need to maintain ultimate accountability.\n\nThis is a builder role. You will define the operating model from scratch, hire a small team of strong engineers, and lean heavily on automation, agents, and continuous production verification rather than manual test cycles. Success looks like a team that catches more, manually does less, and grows the organisation's confidence in its own output without becoming a bottleneck to it.\n\nResponsibilities: \nEstablish charter, operating principles, success metrics, and the team itself.\nReinforce in every process that this is an audit function, not a release gate.\nDesign and operate an automation-first stack: AI agents, synthetic monitoring, production probes, behavioural diffing, and continuous sampling.\nDesign and execute a continuous non-intrusive production auditing strategy to catch subpar experiences, regressions, and drift.\nEstablish measurable metrics across user experience and system behaviour.\nContinuous automated coverage that scales with the product instead of a pile of manual test cases.\nTranslate audit findings into actionable insights for Engineering and Product.\nPartner on root-causing systemic issues without taking ownership of their bug fixes, and build dashboards that give the organisation real-time visibility into production quality.\nRecruit, grow, and empower a team of strong builders first and quality specialists second.\nHold a high bar on technical depth.\nBe a credible technical voice on incidents, regressions, and quality patterns.\nStay hands-on enough to contribute to the team's stack.\nOwn your team's full delivery cycle and engineering standards: code review, testing discipline, observability, and responsible AI use.\nRepresent the team's findings through clear written reports, metrics, and well-run forums.\nResist pressure to convert audit findings into release blocks.\n\nRequirements: \n7+ years building production software, with at least 2 years leading engineers directly.\nSome of that experience in environments where you owned quality, reliability, or production verification at scale.\nTrack record of building automation-first quality or verification systems, test infrastructure, synthetic monitoring, production probing, chaos or behavioural testing rather than managing manual QA.\nHands-on experience with LLMs, AI agents, or sophisticated testing tools to automate non-deterministic flows, and a sharp view on where modern AI changes the economics of test and audit work.\nDeep familiarity with modern automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress), CI/CD, and observability tools (Datadog, New Relic). 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