Engineering Director, AI and Machine Learning

Ibotta is seeking an Engineering Director, AI ML to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. As an Engineering Director focused on ML, AI and ML Ops, you will lead our team in building remarkably intelligent products. We are looking for someone who drives innovation while ensuring stability and quality of our systems and products. We’re looking for a senior leader eager to drive a strong engineering vision, partner strategically, and lead your engineering organization while fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture. The Engineering Director will also be looked to for having a positive impact across the broader engineering team.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado as a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office, (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Candidates must live in the United States. 

What you will be doing:

• Develop and deploy new strategies for building a highly engaged development organization that delivers predictably and in line with our emerging customer needs

• Inspire and mobilize individuals and teams to achieve results

• Ensure timely delivery of engineering solutions to meet business needs while providing a transparent view to progress

• Communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders as well as communicate business objectives to the technical team

• Collaborate across functional areas to define and prioritize technical solutions that support business needs, efficiencies, and revenue

• Partner with Product Management to provide a strong technical strategy that helps set and shape the product strategy

• Partner with Product Management to set OKRs as well as prioritize, scope, and plan business outcomes

• Foster an organization that understands how to balance technical debt vs. feature delivery

• Coach and develop engineering managers, believing they are mission-critical

• Support technical innovation and lead the creation, continual refinement, and active enforcement of our development standards to ensure that our technology enables a sustainable competitive advantage

• Build an organization that is staffed for success, and has appropriately high technical competence that strives for excellence

• Research new approaches and technologies to stay abreast of industry trends and standards

• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency, & A good idea can come from anywhere

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of engineering management experience

• 10+ years of experience in engineering: software, data, ML, AI

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field required

• Experience managing managers and leading an organization of multiple teams

• Highly effective performance manager and comfortable managing team members with different skill sets and technical expertise

• Experience collaborating with diverse stakeholders including customers, senior management, and other business leaders

• Experienced as a strategic contributor to roadmaps, technology platforms and greenfield products utilizing AI ML

• Highly skilled at agile software development, methodologies, management, and DevOps cultures

• Experienced with Databricks, MLflow, and similar AI/ML/ML Ops technologies

• Experienced with LLMs and optimization and reliability of LLM pipelines

• Has worked with cloud-based data architectures and platforms (AWS preferred), and distributed computing like k8s, Airflow

• Experienced delivering reliable model deployment, observability, and monitoring from both a model and infrastructure perspective

• Experienced with security, governance, cost, performance, and reliability strategies at scale

• Motivated by a fast-paced and adapting environment

• Demonstrates effective written and verbal communication