Role Description Join ABC Fitness, the leading technology provider for the fitness industry! - Lead and develop a high-performing team of engineers responsible for core AI enablement capabilities, including reusable APIs, orchestration patterns, evaluation systems, and production guardrails. - Coach and support a highly senior engineering team, including Lead and Principal AI Engineers, while building a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous learning. - Define the strategy, roadmap, and performance expectations for the AI Enablement Platform in alignment with broader engineering and business priorities. - Treat the platform as a product by prioritizing usability, adoption, documentation, and developer experience for internal engineering teams. - Oversee the delivery of reusable platform capabilities that help teams build AI-powered features with greater speed, consistency, and operational quality. - Drive adoption across the engineering organization by identifying friction points, improving the internal developer experience, and ensuring the platform becomes the preferred path for AI development. - Partner closely with senior technical leaders, SRE, Product, and application teams to align platform investments with infrastructure needs, product opportunities, and operational realities. - Establish and reinforce shared standards for how AI systems are built, tested, monitored, and operated in production. - Create strong operating rhythms, delivery metrics, and prioritization practices that improve execution, transparency, and cross-functional coordination. - Balance long-term platform health with near-term delivery needs, ensuring the team delivers scalable capabilities without becoming a one-off service layer for individual requests. Qualifications - Typically 10+ years of engineering experience, including strong experience in backend, platform, or distributed systems environments. - 2+ years of people leadership experience, with a track record of leading engineering teams and developing talent across multiple levels of seniority. - Experience leading platform, backend, or internal tooling teams that deliver reusable capabilities at scale. - Strong understanding of distributed systems, service architecture, APIs, platform reliability, and operational excellence. - Demonstrated ability to define strategy and execution plans for a technical domain while aligning to organizational goals. - Experience partnering with senior engineers and technical leaders to shape architecture, platform direction, and engineering standards. - Strong product and developer-experience mindset, with the ability to understand internal customer needs and translate them into effective platform investments. - Strong cross-functional leadership skills, including the ability to influence Product, SRE, Platform, and engineering stakeholders across multiple teams. - Strong execution discipline, including roadmap management, prioritization, delivery measurement, and balancing short-term and long-term needs. - A growth mindset and leadership style aligned to ABC’s values of One Team, Growth Mindset, and Best Life. Requirements - Experience building or leading internal developer platforms, SDKs, or engineering enablement capabilities. - Experience with AI or LLM-enabled systems, including evaluation frameworks, observability tooling, or production controls. - Familiarity with platform adoption challenges in organizations moving from experimentation to production-grade AI. - Experience improving developer workflows, time-to-value, and platform usability for internal engineering teams. - Experience supporting globally distributed engineering organizations or large-scale cross-team platform adoption. What Success Looks Like - Product teams adopt the AI Enablement Platform as the default path for building AI-powered capabilities. - The platform provides reusable, reliable, and well-documented services that reduce duplicated effort across teams. - Engineering teams move faster because they can build on shared capabilities rather than recreating infrastructure independently. - AI-powered features across ABC follow stronger, more consistent standards for quality, observability, safety, and cost awareness. - The AI Enablement team is high-performing, well-led, and recognized as a critical enabler of the broader engineering organization. Why This Matters ABC Fitness is building toward an AI-native future by developing agentic experiences, intelligent workflow automation, and platform-level capabilities that turn data and models into action. The work spans recommendation systems, orchestration, embedded intelligence, and scalable AI-powered product experiences that directly influence how customers acquire, serve, retain, and grow their members. It is an opportunity to build applied AI in production, at meaningful scale, on problems that matter to customers every day. If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!