Proven leadership of AI-native developer tooling or platform teams, ideally at a company operating at meaningful engineering scale
Track record building full-time, dedicated engineering teams out of fragmented, part-time, or borrowed resourcing: including experience in allocating teams, stellar in people leadership to do it without burning teams out
Real experience structuring and running third-party vendor partnerships (evaluation, integration, managing lock-in risk) alongside first-party build
Hands-on technical credibility in agentic coding systems, context/retrieval infrastructure, or developer-facing AI tooling: able to go deep with ICs, not just manage from a distance
Comfort operating in a high-velocity, ambiguous, and high-executive-visibility organization; ability to align and mobilize teams to take on new challenges and scale impact
High accountability and ownership mindset, coupled with the ability to move fast under pressure
Comfort with an honest, unsolved problem space: even leading peer companies are far from 100% AI-authored code; this role is about the challenge and the resourcing to attack it, not a pre-solved problem
A track record that positions the Director as the natural next-step candidate for the broader Engineering Enablement M6 role
A builder's instinct for evaluation rigor: experience designing evals/benchmarks that replace subjective quality judgments with objective, repeatable measurement
Experience with sandboxed agentic execution environments, retrieval-augmented systems, or LLM-based code review tooling (nice-to-have)
Familiarity with token-cost management as AI spend scales (nice-to-have)
Prior exposure to fintech, regulated environments, or large legacy codebases where AI adoption is harder to get right (nice-to-have)
Core Leadership Skills
The following executive leadership skills serve as a reference for senior leadership levels at Nubank, setting expectations that grow with increasing complexity, ambiguity, and influence
BUSINESS ACUMEN
Drives strategic business alignment at Nubank by analyzing market dynamics, identifying opportunities, and ensuring informed decision-making to influence organizational direction
COMMUNICATION
Masters complex communication, mentoring others, fostering open dialogue, and adapting strategies to enhance organizational effectiveness
AGILE ADAPTABILITY
Leads with agility, pioneering solutions, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous value delivery
Role Location
Palo Alto, US: adhering to company policy for in-office attendance (2026: 2x/week; 2027 onwards: 3x/week)
Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers