Engineering Director, Agent Context
Skills
About the Role
You will drive the strategy, execution, and growth of Hex's state-of-the-art AI context platform. You will work at the heart of the Context Studio, the surface area where users understand how AI agents interact with their data, identify where quality falls short, and actively improve the context that drives better outcomes. You will help build an entirely new development lifecycle for context, blending human insight with automated learning and iteration, and tackle foundational questions such as how to detect and debug failures in agent reasoning, how to structure and manage business context effectively, how to balance human-in-the-loop systems with autonomous improvement, and how to integrate the context layer with the growing ecosystem of AI-powered tools and workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience leading engineering teams working on complex, data-intensive, or AI-driven products and SaaS platforms
- Exceptional ability to identify and design the right technical abstractions to accelerate an ambitious and evolving product vision
- Deep curiosity for, and strong intuition about, state-of-the-art AI agent behavior and context systems
- Proven track record as a people manager, with experience (or clear potential) managing managers and scaling high-performing teams
- Brings a clear playbook for building high-performing teams: setting clear technical standards, hiring and developing strong talent, and creating environments where extraordinary engineers can do their best work
- Deeply technical leader who is not afraid to roll up your sleeves and get hands on when necessary
Responsibilities
- Lead an organization of multiple teams working on Hex's context platform
- Serve as people manager for line-level engineering managers, tech leads, and senior ICs, setting a high bar and empowering them to do their best work
- Recruit exceptional engineering talent, growing to a team of at least 15 software engineers
- Drive technical strategy, review designs, and occasionally get hands on to move the needle
Benefits
- Market-benched salary & equity
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible paid time off