Jobs in Palo Alto, CA

About the role

This role is responsible for defining and leading the AI Developer Experience pillar within Engineering Enablement, transforming how Nubank's engineers write, review, deploy, and operate software. The Director inherits a mandate, a growing team, and a seat at the table with the CTO. The pillar already has real momentum: an early production win in the Vector agentic coding platform, an urgent context-infrastructure buildout, and direct executive sponsorship.

What you'll bring

• Professional Experience & Education
• Proven leadership of AI-native developer tooling or platform teams
• Track record building full-time, dedicated engineering teams out of fragmented, part-time, or borrowed resourcing: including experience in allocating teams, stellar in people leadership to do it without burning teams out.
• Real experience structuring and running third-party vendor partnerships (evaluation, integration, managing lock-in risk) alongside first-party build.
• Hands-on technical credibility in agentic coding systems, context/retrieval infrastructure, or developer-facing AI tooling: able to go deep with ICs, not just manage from a distance.
• Comfort operating in a high-velocity, ambiguous, and high-executive-visibility organization
• ability to align and mobilize teams to take on new challenges and scale impact.
• High accountability and ownership mindset, coupled with the ability to move fast under pressure.
• Comfort with an honest, unsolved problem space:  even leading peer companies are far from 100% AI-authored code
• this role is about the challenge and the resourcing to attack it, not a pre-solved problem.
• A track record that positions the Director as the natural next-step candidate for the broader Engineering Enablement M6 role.
• A builder's instinct for evaluation rigor: experience designing evals/benchmarks that replace subjective quality judgments with objective, repeatable measurement.