Director of Engineering, AI

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

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💵 $263.9k - $319k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Sprout Social, Inc.

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

🌍 Social Impact

Marketing • SaaS • Social Impact

Sprout Social, Inc. is a leading provider of social media management solutions. The company offers a comprehensive platform that enables businesses to streamline their customer care, enhance community management, and drive marketing efforts across various social media channels. With features like engagement, publishing, analytics, and social listening, Sprout Social helps organizations uncover trends, gather insights, and amplify their brand awareness. Their platform integrates AI and automation to improve efficiencies and personalize customer care. Additionally, Sprout Social offers influencer marketing and employee advocacy tools to enhance social reach. Trusted by over 30,000 brands and recognized for its top-tier software products, Sprout Social caters to enterprises, agencies, and small to medium businesses, providing innovative solutions to maximize the impact of social media strategies.

📋 Description

• Build and execute Sprout Social’s platform-wide AI strategy • Facilitate collaboration across engineering, product management, and product design • Build high-functioning teams of applied AI/ML scientists and engineers • Lead engineering teams building foundational AI/ML products across the product suite and customer base • Partner with the VP of Engineering and leaders on team growth, architecture, and product direction • Lead teams delivering scalable, reliable, distributed AI products and quality software • Guide complex product and technical roadmaps and align strategy with product management and design • Develop engineers and applied scientists through feedback, coaching, and career development • Participate in architecture, quarterly planning, roadmap, hiring, staffing, performance review, and career calibration processes • Evangelize Sprout’s AI/ML technical and product vision to internal and external stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building and supporting products in a production environment • 7+ years in software development, including several years leading teams and managing through leaders • Track record of building sustainable, high-performing team structures • Experience leading engineering teams building AI/ML or agentic products • Experience partnering with or leading applied scientists and AI/ML engineers • Recent, direct experience, typically within the last 2–3 years, leading or closely driving modern AI products, agentic or LLM-based systems, evaluation and quality, built on foundation models • Collaborative, pragmatic, highly motivating engineering leadership

🏖️ Benefits

• Premium BCBSIL medical, dental (high/low plans), and vision (Eyemed) insurance for you and your eligible dependents • Full, free access to Modern Health for you and your dependents, including coaching, therapy sessions, and digital wellness resources • 401(k) plan with a 50% company match on your first 6% of contributions (a 3% total match) • 100% employer-paid Life and Disability insurance • Flexible PTO policy and additional company-wide Rest & Recharge days • Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave • $1,000 USD annual Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, mental, and financial well-being • One-time $550 USD home office setup stipend and monthly $50 USD internet stipend • 16 hours of paid volunteer time annually and $100 annual charitable donation match • Pre-tax commuter benefits • Subsidized child/eldercare through Care.com • Discounted pet insurance through Figo • No-cost personalized financial wellness support through Your Money Line