About the company
AI Teammates are Asana’s flagship AI innovation - autonomous agents embedded directly into enterprise workflows that reason, act, and proactively drive work forward. The AI Teammates Platform (AITP) team owns the execution engine and platform layer that makes these AI Teammates effective, reliable, and scalable.
About the role
We’re looking for an experienced Technical Lead to drive the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for the AI Teammates Platform. You will bridge the gap between frontier AI capability and enterprise-grade software engineering, operating in close partnership with frontier model providers while building systems that scale to millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical strategy for the AI Teammates execution engine, tool orchestration, and platform APIs within Asana.
- Drive the team to continually and holistically better itself, setting high standards for clean architecture, systems reliability, and evaluation methodologies.
- Be a key collaborator with other groups across Engineering and a technical counterpart to the AI Teammates team’s Engineering Manager.
- Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and User Research to deeply understand agentic work patterns.
- Architect and own the composable platform foundation, partnering with product engineering teams.
- Oversee the execution of high-impact technical initiatives—from advanced proactivity and MCP integrations to model evals, latency tuning, and cost optimization.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience working in large codebases, with strong backend, systems, or reliability fundamentals.
- 2+ years leading engineering teams or serving as a technical lead, with a track record of driving technical strategy, timeline planning, and risk mitigation.
- Experience or deep interest in Applied AI / Agentic Systems: Familiarity with agent orchestration, tool integration, model evaluation frameworks, RAG, or production LLM observability.
- Quick learner and comfortable transitioning between different contexts and codebases.
- Deep project management experience including high-level timeline planning, risk mitigation, stakeholder management, and coordinating the work of others.
- Passionate about mentoring engineers at all skill levels.
Conditions
- This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner.
- For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $248,000 - $282,000. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process.
- In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits.