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Lightspeed CommerceSenior Director, Agentic Engineering
Lightspeed Commerce is seeking a Senior Director, Agentic Engineering to establish and guide the technical strategy for AI agents across product development lifecycles. Operating within the…
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Lightspeed Commerce is seeking a Senior Director, Agentic Engineering to establish and guide the technical strategy for AI agents across product development lifecycles. Operating within the United States, this foundational leadership role reports directly to the SVP of Engineering and carries organization-wide significance. The chosen candidate will turn emergent agentic technology into secure, reliable, and reusable capabilities that empower engineering, product, design, and operations teams to ship superior products faster.…
Job Description
Lightspeed Commerce is seeking a Senior Director, Agentic Engineering to establish and guide the technical strategy for AI agents across product development lifecycles. Operating within the United States, this foundational leadership role reports directly to the SVP of Engineering and carries organization-wide significance. The chosen candidate will turn emergent agentic technology into secure, reliable, and reusable capabilities that empower engineering, product, design, and operations teams to ship superior products faster. Success will be determined through widespread adoption, measurable developer velocity, heightened product quality, and positive business results.
Founded in 2005 in Montreal, Lightspeed powers global commerce for retail, hospitality, and golf merchants in over 100 countries through a unified cloud platform. The organization values inclusion, performance, and continuous professional growth.
Responsibilities
- Develop the multi-year vision, strategy, and roadmap for agentic engineering to align with business and product priorities
- Lead teams building shared agentic platform capabilities such as reusable agents, workflow orchestration, context access, tool integrations, and governance
- Establish an extensible platform enabling diverse teams to adopt agentic workflows without rebuilding core features
- Collaborate with retail, hospitality, payments, and platform leaders to launch high-value product development use cases
- Build a rigorous evaluation framework for agent performance, security, reliability, cost management, and human oversight
- Coordinate with security, privacy, legal, data, and architecture units to embed responsible AI practices by design
- Define operating models, standards, and support mechanisms for agentic development across a global workforce
- Direct organizational change to transition teams from basic tool usage to sustainable operating-model modifications
- Monitor key platform outcome metrics including adoption rates, cycle-time reduction, cost efficiency, and business impact
- Hire, mentor, and foster an inclusive, high-performing technical organization
Requirements
- Demonstrated history of leading engineering leaders and senior technical talent within a software company
- Experience defining and scaling internal developer platforms or shared engineering infrastructure in complex environments
- Background building or deploying AI-enabled and agentic systems, encompassing model orchestration, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks
- Track record of collaborating with senior stakeholders across multiple functional domains
- Experience leading organizational change and workflow redesign across distributed teams
- Fifteen or more years of professional experience
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related field
Core Skills
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off and remote work policies
- Equity options
- 401k plan with company contributions
- Training opportunities for career and skill growth
- Health and wellness credit
- Paid time off for community volunteering
- Access to employee-led interest groups and social committees
- Computer purchase program for a personal MacBook
- Enhanced parental leave
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What is the salary range for the Senior Director, Agentic Engineering role?
The expected base salary range for this position is $300,000 to $360,000 USD, which may vary depending on the candidate's actual location and qualifications. Discretionary short-term and long-term incentives may also apply.
Where is this position located?
The posting specifies that this role is based in the United States.
What experience level is required to apply?
Candidates must have 15 plus years of experience and a Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related field, along with a background leading senior technical talent and scaling internal developer platforms.
What benefits does Lightspeed Commerce offer for this position?
Offered benefits include flexible paid time off, equity options, 401k contributions, health and wellness credits, enhanced parental leave, training opportunities, and a computer purchase program.
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