Director of Data and AI

About the Company

JOB DESCRIPTION As the Director of Data & AI Engineering, you will lead the foundation of our Intelligence Stack — driving metadata management, data cataloging, and next-generation data pipelines that fuel our multi-agent AI platforms and Trust Layer architecture.

About the Role

As the Director of Data & AI Engineering, you will lead the foundation of our Intelligence Stack — driving metadata management, data cataloging, and next-generation data pipelines that fuel our multi-agent AI platforms and Trust Layer architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own the Data Foundation : Lead initiatives around metadata management, data cataloging, lineage, and governance to make data discoverable, trustworthy, and reusable across AI systems.
• Architect Scalable Data & AI Infrastructure : Design unified data and model pipelines integrating ingestion, transformation, RAG, and inference layers.
• Lead High-Performing Teams : Build and mentor cross-functional teams across data engineering, AI engineering, and MLOps, setting standards for performance, observability, and automation.
• Operationalize AI with Data : Develop data services and vectorized pipelines that continuously enrich AI reasoning, retrieval, and contextual grounding.
• Integrate Across Ecosystem : Collaborate with Product, Infra, and Cloud teams to embed AI and data layers into enterprise applications, analytics, and automation workflows.
• Govern with Trust : Define and implement guardrails for data quality, lineage, bias detection, and model compliance — aligning to our AI safety and trust principles.
• Shape Data & AI Strategy : Evolve ProductSquads’ enterprise data fabric to power multi-tenant AI agents and real-time decision systems.

Qualifications

Required Skills

Preferred Skills