Director, AI Architecture & Agent Platform

Role overview Set the technical architecture and operating standards for AI agents and platforms used across multiple business units. This architecture-led individual contributor role defines how agents are orchestrated, connected, evaluated, secured and monitored, then validates those choices through targeted prototypes and a first cross-system agent in production. The role guides delivery teams through reusable patterns rather than serving as a central application delivery team.

Responsibilities - Recommend where orchestration and reusable capabilities should live, weighing build-versus-buy and platform-native versus independent approaches. - Define how agents on different platforms can interoperate, and set criteria for portability, migration, rehosting or retirement. - Lead the architecture for an initial cross-system production agent; prototype critical paths and provide reusable templates and engineering patterns. - Assess AI tools and proposals, making dependencies, limitations, effort, total cost and technical risk clear for portfolio decisions. - Set production readiness standards for identity and access, evaluation, regression testing, observability, cost controls and failure handling. - Influence engineers, security leaders, vendors and business stakeholders through technical judgment and clear recommendations.

Requirements The available source describes the role’s scope and leadership attributes but does not provide a complete requirements section. It supports a need for hands-on technical depth to prototype and assess agent architectures, systems-level judgment across platforms, and the ability to influence teams without direct reporting authority.

Benefits and work setup US-based; a hybrid arrangement is preferred and aligned with executive cadence. The stated annual hiring range is $172,500–$230,000. The source also describes health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional benefits.