Engineering Manager, AI Agents (AI Engineering)

Location: Based in our Vancouver office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

Salary: $238,000-$270,000 CAD

Company

Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration, helping millions of teams worldwide achieve their most important goals faster.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the Agent Orchestration team, setting technical direction for connecting Asana's AI agents to the broader enterprise ecosystem.
• Drive the architecture and execution of agent skills, deep integrations, and vertical use cases for AI Teammates.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to define and execute roadmap priorities.
• Drive alignment across AI teams on shared infrastructure, APIs, and patterns for agent development and integration.
• Improve team delivery pace, champion engineering velocity, and drive AI coding adoption.
• Attract, retain, and develop exceptional senior engineering talent.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including 4+ years managing technical teams.
• Interest and passion for applied AI, large language models, and agentic systems.
• Strong systems integration and platform-building experience, connecting complex systems across diverse environments.
• Proven ability to set technical direction and drive alignment across multiple teams.
• Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, and retain senior engineering talent.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and thriving in zero-to-one product environments.

Nice to have

• Applied AI experience in production environments.
• Familiarity with agent capability patterns, skill acquisition systems, and dynamic capability routing.
• Understanding of emerging protocols for standardizing how agents interact with tools.
• Track record of driving engineering velocity improvements and developer productivity tooling adoption.
• Experience building deep integrations across enterprise platforms (Slack, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, etc.).

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation package including equity, sales incentive pay, and benefits.
• Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits.
• Career coaching & support.
• Inclusive family building benefits.
• Long-term savings or retirement plans.
• In-office culinary options to cater to dietary preferences.