Director of Engineering, Marketing Agent Platform

Attentive is an AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization that unifies SMS, RCS, email, and push notifications. This role leads engineering for an autonomous marketing agent designed to transform how brands plan, execute, and optimize their marketing. The position is full-time, hybrid, based in New York, NY, with a US base salary range of $340,000 - $390,000 annually.

Responsibilities

Build the engineering systems for an autonomous marketing agent that plans, executes, measures, and continuously improves brand marketing; Work at the intersection of agentic planning, real-time behavioral signals, platform capabilities, experimentation, and reliable execution at massive scale; Turn increasingly sophisticated AI systems into dependable products that can make and act on millions of marketing decisions; Help extend the platform's intelligence through APIs and MCP across a brand's broader marketing stack

Requirements

3+ years managing engineers; 8+ years engineering; Has seen and helped build engineering excellence at a top-tier organization; Sets an ambitious bar for talent and execution, knows how to hire and lead an A+ team, and brings strong technical opinions with the curiosity to challenge their own assumptions; Understands the interface between product engineering, ML, and data science, and is fluent enough to be a real partner; Has shipped agentic or LLM-backed systems and knows the production tradeoffs of tool use, orchestration, and retrieval; Strong on distributed, data-heavy systems: streaming, event-driven, cost-aware inference; Tracks the field closely, has a real view on what shipped last quarter and why it matters, and has killed their own work when something better arrived; Still writes code. Hires well, gives direct feedback, holds a high performance bar, and builds accountability without drama; AI at massive data scale: knows how to build intelligent systems that take advantage of rich, high-volume behavioral data and translate it into better decisions and experiences; Startup mindset, scaled environment: moves quickly, embraces ambiguity, and takes ownership while building within the resources and reach of an established Cloud 100 company; High-impact ownership: energized by working on one of the company's biggest strategic bets, with visibility and impact across senior leadership and the board; Technical and product leadership: wants meaningful influence over the team, architecture, technical direction, and roadmap

Benefits

Competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity