Technical Director, AI Programs

CA Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

You will provide senior technical leadership for a large, multi-stream agentic AI program. You will oversee delivery across approximately ten concurrent workstreams and up to one hundred people to ensure architectural alignment and client business outcomes.

What you will do

Provide delivery oversight across all agentic AI workstreams
Validate architectural solutions by reviewing designs, diagrams, and tradeoffs
Work backwards from client business outcomes to test solutions
Surface hidden risks, dependency gaps, and unspoken blockers
Join solutioning sessions, brainstorms, and client calls
Set and uphold standards for agentic system design, evaluation, security, and production
Serve as the senior technical voice to client leadership
Lead across vendors, partner teams, and internal teams through influence
Partner with engagement, product, and strategy leads
Mentor technical leads across streams

Required qualifications

15+ years in engineering, data, or AI
Career began as an engineer and moved into leading large programs
Experience overseeing large, multi-team programs
History of being held accountable for business outcomes
Technical depth in architecture, system diagramming, and weighing tradeoffs
Recent, real exposure to agentic AI, including agentic platforms or builds, multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, RAG, and evaluation
Strong judgment in spotting incorrect problem solving or solutions
Exceptional communication and EQ
Experience working across multiple vendors, partners, or organizations
Experience in a regulated industry such as healthcare, life sciences, banking, insurance, or EdTech, including compliance regimes like SOC 2, ISO, or FERPA
Working knowledge of AWS and the AWS GenAI offering (e.g., Amazon Bedrock) and other major cloud platforms
Based in the US or Canada, with solid overlap with US Eastern or Central working hours

Nice to have

Experience in both product and services environments
A data science or ML background
Prior experience working alongside AWS teams or on AWS-partnered engagements

About the company

Robots & Pencils designs AI systems for a human world by pairing engineering with creativity. They ship production-ready AI in 30 to 45 days.