Director of Engineering, Search, Recommendations, Discovery and Distribution (AI)

TL;DR

Director of Engineering (AI/Search): Leading and scaling engineering teams responsible for search, recommendations, discovery, and distribution systems with an accent on AI-powered personalization, relevance modeling, and system architecture. Focus on driving impact at global scale through advanced retrieval models and ranking systems, and championing AI-driven personalization.

Location: Hybrid in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, requiring 3 days in the office once the hub is established.

Company

hirify.global Inc. connects businesses with global, AI-enabled talent through its Marketplace and Lifted solutions, facilitating over $30 billion in transactions.

What you will do

• Lead and scale engineering teams responsible for hirify.global’s search, recommendations, and job/talent distribution systems.
• Drive architectural decisions and system design for high-performance retrieval and ranking pipelines.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, data science, and infrastructure teams to define strategy across discovery surfaces.
• Lead and support multiple engineering teams building ML-enabled Collaboration and project/task management systems.
• Champion and refine AI-driven personalization, ensuring reliable performance and responsible use of generative and retrieval-based models.
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineering managers and technical leads across multiple teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading engineering teams focused on search, discovery, SEO/SEM, recommendations, ranking, and/or similar large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of relevance modeling, vector retrieval, or recommender systems with measurable production impact.
• Strong alignment to leadership principles around ownership, excellence, and customer-centricity.
• Demonstrated ability to drive organizational clarity and scalable team processes across multiple workstreams.
• Adaptive-level AI fluency, with experience integrating AI into engineering workflows and evaluating AI outputs.
• Must be able to work hybrid 3 days a week in Toronto, Canada.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to shape core components of the user experience and create impact at a global scale.
• Part of a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workforce.
• Initial employment through a partner with competitive benefits, with potential for transition to direct hirify.global employment when the hub is established.
• Committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce.