Sr. Director, Agent Development (Remote)

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn't changed - we're here to stop breaches, and we've redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We're always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

The IT department at CrowdStrike is at the forefront of enabling our company's rapid growth and technological innovation. We are looking for a Sr Director of AI Agent Development to help lead the charge in leveraging impactful Generative AI capabilities that enhance productivity, provide new internal capabilities, and unlock opportunities for additional revenue. We're seeking a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, has a track record of building strong teams, has world class communication skills, and is passionate about staying on the frontier of AI.

What You'll Do:

• Reimagine work. Be a sponge-seek to understand the work of teams around the company. Then help them evolve their workflows to best take advantage of agents and automation. Do so with empathy that change can be disruptive to established ways of working.
• Build our AI Agent Developer team. Build, mentor, and scale a global agent developer team that supports functions across the company in creating and maintaining low and high code AI agents.
• Hands-on leadership. Be in the weeds with the team as well as a strategic leader, contributing to agent development and pushing the team to stay on the technological edge.
• Share your expertise. Become a key member of the AI Center of Excellence, sharing your expertise to help others around the company build better agents, and support company-wide AI training efforts. Stay on the frontier of AI and advise on adoption of new methods and tools. Be flexible yourself as everything about this role will need to continue to evolve as the AI ecosystem evolves.

• Data Science and AI experience. 15+ years of experience in data science and/or AI, with 7+ years in senior leadership roles.
• Experience with low-code and high-code AI agents. Lead the development of canonical agents to support the most essential work across the company. Produce agents that operate in a cost-effective manner, and integrate seamlessly into the workflows of the teams that benefit from them.
• Experience evaluating, monitoring, and improving agents to maximize ROI. Lead the development of evaluation datasets that can be used to monitor the performance of key agents, and support decisions around buy vs build including evaluating vendors. Help analyze usage patterns and advise on usage and cost.
• Team building experience. Experience managing global, distributed engineering teams in high-growth environments.

• Python expertise. 8+ years of experience, with strong understanding of data structures, best practices for security, and a practice of using AI yourself for code-assist.
• Agent SDKs. Vertex, OpenAI, Claude, etc. MCP experience.
• Machine learning. Solid foundational knowledge.
• Cloud Data Warehouses and Platforms: Snowflake, AWS, GCP, or Azure, with strong understanding of data services and scaling strategies.
• Educator tendencies. Passion for AI, and desire to share your passion to upskill team members in all functions across the company.
• Understanding of GenAI. Your ability to develop agents should be underpinned with a solid understanding of how the LLMs, and the AI systems behind them, work. Understanding of modern AI safety and governance approaches is desirable.
• Lifelong learner. Demonstrated ability to continuously adapt as new AI capabilities and tools have emerged. Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, or related field; MBA a plus.

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture
• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
• Paid parental and adoption leaves
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe