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Motive is hiring a Director of Developer Platform & Experience to lead the company's shift toward AI-driven development. This is a builder's leadership role focused on execution rather than strategy, owning Motive's internal developer ecosystem end-to-end: developer experience, developer infrastructure, build and CI/CD systems, testing frameworks, and AI-driven development lifecycle (AI-DLC) tooling.
The core mandate is to make agentic development a governed, measured, everyday practice across Motive's engineering organization, which spans North America, Europe, and Asia, working across Rails monoliths, Go services, mobile, and embedded systems.
Key responsibilities include:
**AI-Driven Development Lifecycle**: Translate Motive's AI-driven development direction into a multi-year executable plan. Evaluate, select, and roll out AI developer tools (coding agents, code review, test generation, incident investigation, documentation). Build internal scaffolding—context, MCP servers, evals, guardrails—that makes these tools effective on real Motive codebases. Stand up rigorous LLM and agent evaluation practices with benchmarks, offline/online evals, quality and cost regression tracking, and defensible model/vendor selection. Own governance with Security, Legal, and Platform teams around acceptable use, code provenance, licensing, secrets, data handling, and audit trails. Define and report adoption and impact metrics. Drive organizational enablement and cultural shift from "write then review" to continuous review of agent-generated work.
**Cloud-Based Agentic Development Infrastructure**: Build and own the platform that runs agentic development in the cloud—on-demand, reproducible, isolated workspaces where many agents work concurrently on real codebases, run real tests, and open real pull requests without engineer babysitting or security/cost compromises. This is a hard distributed-systems and platform problem.
**Developer Experience & Infrastructure**: Make the inner loop fast and the right path easy. Ensure build, CI/CD, and release systems are fast, reliable, and cost-aware at scale.
You will inherit real systems and real teams, measured on whether engineers ship faster, with higher confidence, and with less friction quarter-over-quarter. The defining challenge is moving agentic development past the laptop—building infrastructure where engineers operate as reviewers and directors of parallel work rather than being throughput-bound by their own machines.
