Senior Director, AI Platform and Products

Senior Director, AI Platform and Products Join to apply for the Senior Director, AI Platform and Products role at OpenText in Waterloo/Richmond Hill, ON (Hybrid). At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We're hiring talent that AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us. Your Impact As Senior Director of AI Platform and Products, you will serve as a senior technical and strategic leader reporting to the VP of AI Engineering and Enablement. You will shape the long‑term vision, architecture, and execution strategy for OpenText’s AI Foundations and Platform ecosystem and translate that vision into actionable product and engineering goals. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, AI incubation, and enterprise enablement. You will lead the evolution of OpenText’s shared AI capabilities, including orchestration frameworks, SDKs, runtime services, and agentic choreography solutions built on emerging interoperability standards such as A2A (Agent‑to‑Agent) and MCP (Model Context Protocol). You will also represent the AI Platform organization in executive forums, guiding strategy and communicating outcomes while fostering a culture of technical excellence, curiosity, and continuous innovation. What the role offers As Senior Director, AI Platform and Products, you will: Define and drive the vision and technical direction for enterprise‑scale AI foundations and platforms in partnership with executive stakeholders. Lead engineering and solution architecture initiatives for shared AI frameworks, orchestration runtimes, and developer enablement platforms. Design and guide AI solution architectures that balance innovation, scalability, and security. Translate emerging AI trends and technologies (A2A, MCP, LangGraph, CrewAI) into actionable engineering and product strategies. Stay connected to the AI ecosystem, identifying opportunities from industry trends, research, and vendor developments. Build relationships with AI partners and platform providers to infuse external innovation into internal strategy. Drive incubation and innovation, converting exploratory work into reusable, production‑grade capabilities. Communicate complex strategies clearly to executives and cross‑functional teams. Foster a culture of curiosity, learning, and hands‑on technical depth across engineering teams. What you need to succeed 12+ years of experience in engineering, AI solutions, or platform product leadership, including 5+ years in AI/ML or GenAI. Proven success leading engineering or AI platform teams delivering frameworks, orchestration systems, or enterprise AI solutions. Strong solution architecture background, with experience designing and evaluating complex AI platform integrations. Hands‑on familiarity with agentic frameworks and modern orchestration tools such as LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, ADK, or similar ecosystems. Understanding of LLMs, agentic architectures, orchestration runtimes, and model integration techniques. Deep technical curiosity and awareness of industry trends, open standards, and agentic interoperability. Experience collaborating with cloud and model providers (AWS, Azure, Google Vertex, Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.). Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills that connect technical depth with business strategy. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Join the team OpenText is more than just a corporation; it’s a global community where trust is foundational, the bar is raised, and outcomes are owned. Join us on our mission to drive positive change through privacy, technology, and collaboration. At OpenText, we don't just have a culture; we have character. Choose us because you want to be part. #J-18808-Ljbffr