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About the Role
Metropolis is seeking a Director of Applied AI to lead a new organization and architect an AI-first operating model. This role involves defining AI's leverage across the business and building a team to implement these AI-first solutions, focusing on reducing friction and delivering tangible outcomes.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
Skills
- AI/ML
- Technical product leadership
- LLMs
- Agentic workflows
- AI automation tooling
- OpenAI
- LangChain
- Vector databases
- Engineering skills
- Organizational change
- Change management
- Communication skills
- TypeScript
- React
- Scala
- Java
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Snowflake
- AWS
- Git
- GitHub
- Copilot on GitHub
- Claude Code
- Datadog
Location
- On-site
Work Type
- 4 Days in Office
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
- 7+ years of experience
- 2+ years leading teams
Salary/Compensations
- $225,000.00 USD to $265,000.00 USD annually
Benefits
- Healthcare benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Lucrative stock option plan
- Bonus plans
About the Company
- The real world is the next frontier, and at Metropolis, we are creating the artificial intelligence to make it responsive.
- We are pioneering the Recognition Economy — a future where mundane repetition disappears and being known unlocks access, comfort, and belonging everywhere you go.
- From transforming parking into a seamless drive-in, drive-out experience for millions of Members to expanding our intelligence layer across retail and hospitality, we are building a world that feels instinctive and magical.
- When you join Metropolis, you'll join a team of world-class product leaders and engineers, building an ecosystem of technologies at the intersection of parking, mobility, and real estate.
- Our goal is to build an inclusive culture where everyone has a voice and the best idea wins.
- You will play a key role in building and maintaining this culture as our organization grows.
Equal Opportunity
- Metropolis Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We make all hiring decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs — without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law.
- We are committed to providing a welcoming, accessible hiring experience. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please reach out to us at recruiting@metropolis.io.