Platform Lead

Platform Lead

Overview

We are an early-stage startup building an intelligent, agentic talent management SaaS platform that reimagines how organizations source, assess, and engage with talent through AI-driven autonomy and insight. As the Platform Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping both the product and engineering culture from the ground up. You will lead a distributed team across time zones, take ownership of the technical roadmap, and help turn our vision into a scalable, market-ready platform.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives in dynamic startup environments — capable of driving product direction one moment and deep-diving into architecture or code the next.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of the AI-based agentic platform, ensuring it’s built for scalability, agility, and speed to market.
• Manage and mentor a distributed, cross-functional team of engineers, AI practitioners, and designers.
• Collaborate closely with founders on strategy, architecture, and product roadmap, balancing technical depth with business priorities.
• Define the foundation for our engineering culture, processes, and operational excellence.
• prototype rapidly, validate solutions, and iterate based on real user feedback and agentic system insights.
• Contribute directly to coding, integration, and deployment when needed; balance leadership with hands-on technical execution.
• Architect integrations with third-party tools, APIs, and AI frameworks to connect recruiting ecosystems with smart, adaptive agents.
• Maintain clear, asynchronous communication across a globally distributed team and ensure alignment across engineering, design, and product.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering or platform architecture experience, with at least 3+ years in technical leadership roles.
• Proven success building and launching complex SaaS products in startup or early-stage environments.
• Strong understanding of agentic AI, reasoning systems, or AI automation frameworks (e.g., LangChain, CrewAI, or OpenDevin).
• Deep industry knowledge of recruiting, staffing, or talent management technologies.
• Experience leading distributed teams, fostering ownership, motivation, and accountability across diverse time zones.
• Exceptional communication, adaptability, and a startup mindset — comfortable shifting between strategic planning and tactical problem-solving.
• Strong grasp of modern cloud-native, API-driven architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure) and data-centric design.
• Passion for building from zero to one — creating structure in ambiguity and delivering under rapid iteration cycles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous hands-on leadership in HR Tech, ATS, or workforce intelligence products.
• Familiarity with microservices, vector databases, event streaming, and LLM agent orchestration.
• Startup experience in building MVPs, validating hypotheses, and scaling product-market fit.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to shape a groundbreaking AI-native platform redefining how talent management works.
• A collaborative, fast-moving startup culture that values creativity, ownership, and transparent communication.
• Flexibility to work remotely across time zones with a passionate, mission-driven global team.
• Direct impact on product, culture, and growth at the leadership level.