Associate Director, Product Software Engineering (AI)

Location: USA - Coppell, Texas; hybrid work with 8 office days per month

Salary: $144,500–$258,300 USD annually, plus bonus eligibility.

Company

hirify.global develops business-critical customer and internal software products.

What you will do

• Lead multiple software engineering teams, setting goals, ownership boundaries, operating rhythms, and measurable outcomes.
• Translate product and portfolio priorities into engineering roadmaps, staffing plans, delivery commitments, and technical investments.
• Hire, manage, coach, and mentor engineering managers, technical leads, AI engineers, and senior software engineers.
• Lead AI engineering capability for reliable agentic product workflows and enforce Spec-Driven Development and Agentic Product Development Lifecycle practices.
• Guide architecture, security, privacy, accessibility, resilience, scalability, observability, DevOps, quality automation, and production validation.
• Use delivery, quality, reliability, customer, DORA, and engineering-effectiveness metrics to improve flow, resolve blockers, and support incident response and remediation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of significant experience leading software engineering organizations responsible for enterprise or commercial software products.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience applying Agentic Product Development Lifecycle and Spec-Driven Development to product delivery.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience leading agentic product workflows, including evaluation frameworks, context engineering, learning and feedback loops, end-to-end traceability, and token- and cost-optimized architecture.
• Experience hiring, managing, coaching, and mentoring AI engineers and building high-performing teams delivering reliable AI-enabled product capabilities.
• Experience managing managers or multiple engineering teams in a matrixed, globally distributed environment.
• Experience delivering and operating native, highly available, secure, business-critical cloud software.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications while sustaining production operations and customer commitments.
• Strong people leadership, organizational design, coaching, conflict resolution, talent development, technical judgment, executive communication, cross-functional influence, and decision-making in ambiguity.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in a relevant technical or business discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace with 8 office days per month.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans; 401(k); FSA/HSA; and commuter benefits.
• Tuition assistance, vacation and sick time, and paid parental leave.
• Inclusive leadership, psychological safety, continuous learning, responsible AI use, and continuous improvement are emphasized.

Hiring process

• Interviews must be completed without AI tools, AI-generated responses, external prompts, or third-party support; violations may result in disqualification.
• Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a hirify.global office, and interviews include in-person participation.