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Wand AI

Head of Engineering, Organization & Governance

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Lead a product engineering team focused on governance for a hybrid workforce, ensuring compliance and scalable operations for enterprises.
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Description

Build the Future Workforce

Wand turns AI into labor. It enables humans and AI agents to operate together as a unified, hybrid workforce, with comprehensive management and oversight. And it’s already operating at scale inside some of the world’s largest organizations.

Wand built the world’s first Agentic Labor Infrastructure enabling governments and global enterprises to create, manage, and scale digital workforces.

Our mission is to integrate agent ecosystems into the core of work and business, unlocking a generational leap in the global economy. We’re building the infrastructure that lets humans and AI agents operate together safely, transparently, and at scale.

Join Wand in leading the Agentic Shift

Wand is building a high-performing global team who take full ownership of what they build. We lead by example, move fast, make data-aware decisions, and continuously push for more- always with a focus on delivering real value to customers.

You would be joining a world-class team that combines deep research expertise and real-world product execution, with experience spanning Deepmind, Google, Amazon, Miro, Elise AI, IBM and Accern.

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Position Summary

You will lead the product engineering stream building the governance foundation for a new hybrid workforce in global enterprises. The system models organizations around goals, actors, their roles, actions, assets and policies. It serves as a control plane for organizational execution and compliance, providing both back-office admin interface as well as insights for company leadership. This is the critical infrastructure that enables holistic view on enterprise companies to help with rolling up their processes at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale a 5 to 30+ person engineering organization across European time zones (including UK and IL)
  • Partner with product management to define and deliver roadmap
  • Contribute to the overall product engineering leadership
  • Drive engineering productivity across your teams
  • Define and automate SDLC, leveraging modern approaches and tools
  • Own culture and communication within your teams

Key Qualifications

  • Experience building engineering organizations from the ground up — hiring, scaling and leading engineering orgs of 30+ people across multiple teams, over multiple years, in EMEA (EU/UK/IL).
  • Director-level experience with strong process and people management skills
  • Proven experience building (not just maintaining) complex systems at scale
  • Comfortable with high ownership and ambiguity in a fast-moving startup environment
  • Familiar with security, compliance, and enterprise requirements 
  • Excited about using agents and automation
  • 15+ years engineering experience with credibility across senior stakeholders

Preferred Experience

  • Background at companies managing scale with tooling and agents 
  • ML/AI background, and/or prior experience managing ML engineers
  • Experience serving enterprise customers

Personal Characteristics

  • Strong operator with execution focus, not purely visionary
  • High ownership and bias toward action
  • Ability to build, inspire, and motivate teams
  • Process-oriented with clarity in communication
  • Excited about leveraging AI, agents to improve code and automate eng operations
  • Strategic thinker who can balance immediate delivery with long-term architecture

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