Hex
Actively Hiring

Engineering Director, Agent Context

New York, United States
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to drive the strategy, execution, and growth of Hex’s state-of-the-art AI context platform

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Our ambition is simple but powerful: Hex should get better every time you use it. With tens of thousands of people relying on Hex daily to do deep analytical work, we are uniquely positioned to learn from usage and continuously improve the intelligence of our system.

The Context Studio is at the heart of this vision. It is the surface area where users can understand how AI agents interact with their data, identify where quality falls short, and actively improve the context that drives better outcomes. We are building an entirely new development lifecycle for context, one that blends human insight with automated learning and iteration.

The broader AI landscape is evolving quickly, and our team is tackling foundational questions such as how to detect and debug failures in agent reasoning, how to structure and manage business context effectively, how to balance human-in-the-loop systems with autonomous improvement, and how to integrate our context layer with the growing ecosystem of AI-powered tools and workflows.

What you will do

  • Lead an organization of multiple teams working on Hex’s context platform
  • Serve as people manager for line-level engineering managers, tech leads, and senior ICs, setting a high bar and empowering them to do their best work
  • Recruit exceptional engineering talent, growing to a team of at least 15 software engineers
  • Drive technical strategy, review designs, and occasionally get hands on to move the needle

About Hex

Modern collaborative workspace for data science and analytics combining SQL, Python, no-code, and AI in one environment

Required skills

Typescript
React
Apollo GraphQL
Redux
Express
Postgres
Redis
Kubernetes
Terraform
Helm
AWS

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Job details

Salary

$262,000 - $348,500

Location

New York, United States

Experience

10+ years

Company

NameHex
IndustrySaaS
Team Size100

Funding

Total raised

$170M

Last stage

Series C

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz
Sequoia Capital
Redpoint Ventures
Amplify Partners
SSnowflake
DDatabricks
BBox Group
XYZ Venture Capital
OOperator Collective
DData Community Fund
TTokyo Black
VVandelay Ventures

Founders

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Barry McCardel

Co-Founder and CEO

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Caitlin Colgrove

Co-Founder and CTO

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.