About the company
The Platform organization at Asana builds the services and shared experiences that every Asana product runs on, starting with the Work Graph and the APIs that let people and AI agents act on it.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction across Asana's platform, from the Work Graph and its data model to the ecosystem of APIs and shared experiences that products, integrations, and agents build on
- Partner across the R&D organization, Security, and Legal to drive a portfolio of high-stakes, long-term initiatives
- Set the bar for good platform design, including interface design, separation of concerns, and reliability and functional guarantees
- Make the high-stakes calls on build versus buy, on vendors, and on how to replatform without stopping product delivery
- Bring a grounded view of the industry, and of how AI agents change what a work platform has to offer, into R&D strategy
- Serve as the decision maker and backstop when a technical question cuts across pillars
- Grow the technical leaders around you, from mentoring staff and senior staff engineers
- Represent Asana's platform engineering externally through talks and writing
Requirements
- 12+ years building production software, including years spent setting technical direction across a large organization or several
- You have built platforms that other teams ship on, at a scale where mistakes are expensive
- Deep experience with distributed systems and with large, shared data models
- A clear view of where AI is taking platforms like ours, including agents as first-class actors
- You have led at least one major replatforming or migration in a system that could not stop serving customers while it changed
- You communicate at every level of a company, from a design review with engineers to a strategy discussion with executives
- You have grown staff and senior staff engineers into larger scopes
- Experience with multi-tenant enterprise SaaS, and with security and data governance for AI systems, is a plus