VP of Engineering (AI)

Location: Remote within most states of the United States, with some exclusions; office hubs in Los Angeles and New York are available for in-person collaboration.

Salary: $230,000–$285,000 annually, plus benefits.

Company

hirify.global operates Polaris, a client CRM and marketing intelligence platform supporting marketing data, reporting, forecasting, optimization, anomaly detection, and client insights.

What you will do

• Lead and develop engineering managers and individual contributors across applications, data pipelines, quality engineering, and cloud platform teams.
• Set engineering strategy, organizational structure, technical standards, delivery practices, and operating budgets.
• Partner with Product, UX, Data Science, Security, Finance, agency leaders, clients, and vendors to shape the Polaris roadmap and investment priorities.
• Own architecture across Python and Django services, React applications, PostgreSQL, Airflow, BigQuery, dbt, GKE, Cloud Run, Terraform, GitOps, Argo CD, and GitHub Actions.
• Advance AI-assisted development, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, release automation, and developer productivity.
• Lead reliability, incident management, security, data governance, compliance, and risk reduction for application, platform, and data workloads.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering managers and multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
• Deep architectural judgment across SaaS applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and security.
• Experience improving developer productivity through platform capabilities, automation, testing, operational standards, and DevEx metrics.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted development or agentic workflows, balancing speed with security, quality, cost, and maintainability.
• Experience owning cloud and software budgets, vendor relationships, capacity planning, and technical contract decisions.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States; immigration sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Experience in digital marketing, advertising technology, agency technology, or high-volume data and analytics integrations.
• Experience with customer-facing, multi-tenant enterprise products and large-scale data ingestion and transformation.
• Experience supporting marketing mix modeling, forecasting, experimentation, optimization, or anomaly detection applications.
• Experience with SOC 2 or similar controls, enterprise identity and access management, and client security reviews.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work flexibility across most US states, with office hubs in Los Angeles and New York.
• Unlimited paid time off and an extended winter holiday break.
• 100% paid parental leave.
• 401(k) matching.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, pet, short-term disability, and additional voluntary insurance.
• Annual Class Pass credits and an inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity.