Vice President, AI Ecosystem & Developer Platform (AI)

Location: Fort Mill/Charlotte, United States

Pay range: $163,900–$273,100 annually

Company

hirify.global is a U.S. wealth management firm providing financial advisors and institutions with investment solutions, fintech tools, affiliation models, and practice management services.

What you will do

• Lead the strategy and execution of an internal AI App Store and developer-first AI ecosystem platform.
• Build curated catalogs for MCP servers, reusable agents, prompts, context libraries, evaluation templates, and benchmarking frameworks.
• Develop secure AI browser experiences and SaaS integrations with enterprise guardrails for identity, data access, and usage governance.
• Extend Kong AI Gateway capabilities and create custom Kong plugins for consistent and scalable AI access.
• Deliver developer starter kits, documentation, quickstart guides, integration patterns, and self-service onboarding.
• Partner with platform, security, application, architecture, and product teams to scale reusable AI capabilities across the organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, developer platforms, API ecosystems, or enterprise technology platforms.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing platform, developer experience, API, or AI engineering teams.
• 3+ years of experience building and scaling AI/LLM-enabled platforms, products, or developer tooling, including agents, MCP servers, and AI integration patterns.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with API management platforms such as Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, AWS API Gateway, or Azure API Management.
• Experience building and driving adoption of enterprise-scale internal platforms, developer marketplaces, service catalogs, app stores, or ecosystem products.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kong AI Gateway, MCP servers, emerging AI integration patterns, and enterprise-grade platform tooling.
• Knowledge of prompt engineering, RAG, context management, tool calling, agent frameworks, and AI evaluation frameworks.
• Experience implementing AI governance, security controls, identity and access management, and enterprise AI standards.
• Experience defining platform strategy with engineering, security, architecture, and product leaders.

Culture & Benefits

• Leadership culture focused on integrity, continuous improvement, collaboration, and employee development.
• Benefits include 401(k) matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, and volunteer time off.
• Work centers on creating secure, standardized, and scalable AI consumption across the enterprise.