Director of Engineering, Marketing Agent Platform

The role

You will build engineering systems for an autonomous marketing agent designed to plan, execute, and optimize marketing. This role involves working with agentic planning, real-time behavioral signals, and large-scale distributed systems.

What you will do

• Build engineering systems for an autonomous marketing agent
• Work at the intersection of agentic planning, real-time behavioral signals, and platform capabilities
• Turn AI systems into dependable products for millions of marketing decisions
• Manage engineers and lead an A+ team
• Hire well and give direct feedback
• Write code
• Influence team architecture, technical direction, and roadmap

Required qualifications

• 3+ years managing engineers
• 8+ years engineering
• Has shipped agentic or LLM-backed systems
• Knows production tradeoffs of tool use, orchestration, and retrieval
• Strong on distributed, data-heavy systems: streaming, event-driven, cost-aware inference
• Still writes code

Nice to have

• Has seen and helped build engineering excellence at a top-tier organization

Benefits

• Health & wellness
• Equity

About the company

Attentive is an AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization that unifies SMS, RCS, email, and push notifications. The company partners with more than 8,000 customers across 70+ industries.