Director, AI Platforms

The role

You will lead the AI Platforms team to build shared foundations for AI adoption and product features. You will manage model access, agent tooling, and infrastructure to support the company's agentic product development lifecycle.

What you will do

• Set the direction for the AI Platforms team with a clear roadmap
• Lead and scale the team through strategic hiring and development
• Build and evolve the shared AI platform including model access, agent runtime, and cost controls
• Define and own AI end-user platforms
• Partner with core teams to evolve the Agentic PDLC
• Extend the platform from internal productivity to the product
• Drive adoption through paved paths and reusable components
• Partner with Security, Privacy, and Legal to build safeguards into the platform
• Define and report outcomes such as adoption, quality, cost, and time to ship
• Review designs, unblock teams, and make build-versus-buy calls

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years experience leading engineering teams that build platforms or infrastructure used by other engineers
• Experience building and operating production AI systems, such as agentic workflows, large language model (LLM) integrations, retrieval, and evaluation
• Working knowledge of MCP and agent orchestration
• Familiarity with AI inference in production, including serving, latency, reliability, provider management, and cost
• Experience driving the adoption of new engineering practices across a large engineering organization through influence
• Hands-on technical judgment for reviewing architecture and setting technical direction
• Comfort working where the platform, operating model, and product use cases are all taking shape
• Clear communicator with both executives and engineers

Nice to have

• experience with consumer-scale mobile products
• privacy-sensitive data

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for employees)
• Paid parental leave
• 401(k) plan with company matching program
• Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible PTO
• Companywide holidays throughout the year plus summer and winter shutdowns
• Learning & Development programs
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership and Tile trackers

Before you apply

• AI tool usage during interviews varies by role
• You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance
• Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy

About the company

Life360 is a remote-first company with more than 500 employees. Its mission is to keep people close to the ones they love through mobile apps, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS trackers.