Senior Director, Engineering - ICM (AI)

Location: Remote USA; Canada is also listed as an available location. US work eligibility is required through participation in E-Verify.

Salary: USD 237,440–373,630 per year

Company

hirify.global provides incentive compensation management and is expanding into enterprise performance management with AI-native capabilities.

What you will do

• Own the engineering strategy and long-term technical direction for the Incentive Compensation Management product.
• Guide product evolution and identify valuable, trustworthy applications of AI in plan design, calculation, and payout workflows.
• Recruit, develop, and lead engineering managers and senior technical leaders across multiple teams.
• Shape team structures, ownership, processes, and an engineering culture focused on velocity and continuous improvement.
• Guide architecture decisions balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, performance, and delivery speed.
• Align Engineering, Product, Design, GTM, and executive leadership around priorities, trade-offs, and customer outcomes.

Requirements

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years leading managers and multi-team engineering organizations.
• Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience owning products end to end and scaling existing systems.
• Hands-on experience shipping AI/ML-powered product features, ideally LLM-based, including measuring and maintaining their quality.
• Strong technical judgment across product architecture, infrastructure, reliability, and developer experience.
• Close partnership with Product and Design, with a focus on customer outcomes beyond engineering.
• Ability to create clarity in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience working with executive leadership.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States; hirify.global participates in E-Verify.

Nice to have

• Experience applying AI to improve how engineering teams work.
• Experience in enterprise B2B SaaS, finance or compensation systems, or other domains where calculation accuracy and auditability matter.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with a collaborative environment across product, design, and engineering leadership.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees, with approximately 75% dependent coverage.
• Flexible vacation days and quarterly mental health days.
• Annual professional development and caretaking stipends.
• Work anniversary bonuses, Apple hardware, and employee resource groups.
• US-only 401(k) retirement savings plan.

Hiring process

• Multiple interview rounds are conducted through secure video conferencing before an employment offer.
• Recruitment communication should come only from an @hirify.global.com email address; candidates are never asked for payments, equipment-check cashing, or sensitive personal information before a post-offer background check.