# Director, Applied AI
**Company:** [Metropolis](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/metropolis)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Salary:** $225K-$265K
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, OpenAI, LangChain, TypeScript, React, Scala, Java, MySQL, Postgres, Snowflake, AWS, Git, GitHub, Datadog, Vector Databases
**Posted:** 2026-05-13
> Leads Applied AI team to rebuild business processes across finance, ops, revenue, and GTM using AI solutions like LLMs and agentic workflows. Requires 7+ years in software/AI leadership, hands-on AI expertise, and 2+ years managing production AI teams.
## Job Description
## What you'll do

- Own the Applied AI roadmap by identifying high-leverage opportunities to rebuild business processes across finance, operations, revenue, and GTM
- Hire, develop, and lead a team of AI Engineers and Process Analysts while establishing a culture of fast iteration
- Partner deeply with functional leaders to understand current work flows and design AI-first solutions to eliminate friction
- Set standards for how the team designs, evaluates, and deploys AI workflows, including prompt systems and LLM integrations
- Establish metrics for each process transformation and hold the team accountable to time savings, error reduction, and cost impact
- Serve as the internal authority on applied AI capabilities, tooling trends, and emerging best practices
- Present strategy, progress, and results to senior leadership and the executive team

## What we're looking for

- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, AI/ML, or technical product leadership
- At least 2 years leading teams that shipped AI-powered systems in production
- Maintain deep hands-on familiarity with **LLMs**, agentic workflows, and AI automation tooling such as **OpenAI**, **LangChain**, and vector databases
- Demonstrate strong engineering skills and the ability to credibly review and guide technical decisions
- Show a track record of driving organizational change through technology and ensuring tools are adopted for sustained impact
- Apply experience working across functional boundaries to redesign processes with strong instincts for change management
- Utilize excellent communication skills to distill complex AI concepts for a non-technical executive audience
- Maintain a bias toward shipping by moving fast and setting clear expectations for high standards

## Our Stack

**Languages + Frameworks:** TypeScript, React, Scala (principally), Java (limited)
**Datastores:** MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake
**Cloud:** AWS
**Version control:** Git & GitHub
**AI Tooling:** Copilot on GitHub and Claude Code
**Observability:** Datadog

## Compensation

Anticipated base salary: **$225,000 - $265,000 USD** annually, plus benefits including healthcare, 401(k), stock options, bonus plans.
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