Senior Director of Engineering, Consumer AI

About the role

The Senior Director of Engineering, Consumer AI will define and execute 1Password's Applied AI strategy across customer-facing products and experiences. This leader will be responsible for identifying meaningful customer problems that AI can solve, building the organizational and technical capabilities needed to deliver those solutions, and ensuring that everything shipped meets 1Password's standards for trust, privacy, security, reliability, and user experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product, Design, Security, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, Data, Platform Engineering, and Executive Leadership to shape both near-term product investments and long-term AI strategy.
• Identify and prioritize meaningful customer problems that AI can solve.
• Build the organizational and technical capabilities needed to deliver AI-powered experiences.
• Ensure AI-powered experiences are secure, reliable, privacy-preserving, explainable, and aligned with customer expectations.
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineering leaders capable of operating in a rapidly evolving AI landscape.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with Security, Privacy, Legal, Design, Product, and GTM teams to align priorities and execution.
• Shape long-term strategy for how AI contributes to 1Password's product and business strategy.

Requirements

• 12+ years software engineering experience
• 5+ years leading large engineering organizations
• Experience leading AI-powered product initiatives
• Experience operating in high-growth SaaS environments

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of modern AI systems and product development
• Experience balancing experimentation with operational rigor
• Strong systems-thinking mindset
• Ability to guide senior technical leaders
• Demonstrated success leading leaders
• Organizational design experience
• Ability to build high-performing teams
• Ability to connect technology strategy to customer outcomes
• Strong prioritization judgment
• Experience partnering closely with Product and Design
• Strong privacy instincts
• Ability to balance innovation with customer trust
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable operating with executives
• Strong cross-functional influence

Skills

• Experience building AI-powered products
• Leadership in large engineering organizations
• Navigating ambiguity
• Translating emerging technologies into durable customer value

Benefits

• USA-based roles: Annual base salary between $272,000 USD and $408,000 USD, plus immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.
• Canada-based roles: Annual base salary between $254,000 CAD and $381,000 CAD, plus immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.

Pay

• USA-based roles: Annual base salary between $272,000 USD and $408,000 USD
• Canada-based roles: Annual base salary between $254,000 CAD and $381,000 CAD

Schedule

• Remote opportunity within Canada and the US