Senior Director, AI Platform and Products

Overview AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered. At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent that AI can't replace to help shape the future of information management. Join us. Senior Director, AI Platform and Products The AI Engineering and Enablement organization defines and advances OpenText’s AI vision, strategy, and foundational platform architecture. It serves as the central force aligning product, engineering, and research teams around a common AI foundation that ensures scalable, secure, and consistent GenAI capabilities across the enterprise. The organization delivers shared AI platforms, orchestration frameworks, and foundational services that form the strategic and technical backbone powering GenAI adoption across all products and business units. It leads OpenText’s AI innovation strategy, shaping how generative and agentic AI are transformed into real products and customer-facing solutions. We work across product, engineering, and research to deliver AI capabilities that power intelligent content, secure workflows, and enterprise-scale automation across OpenText’s portfolio. Our focus goes beyond platforms and tooling to building AI products, experiences, and shared foundations that accelerate innovation while maintaining the trust, security, and governance required in enterprise and regulated environments. From agentic development and orchestration to AI-powered solutions built on trusted content, we enable OpenText teams and customers to realize the full potential of AI at scale. 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 Defining and driving the vision and technical direction for enterprise-scale AI foundations and platforms in partnership with executive stakeholders. Leading engineering and solution architecture initiatives for shared AI frameworks, orchestration runtimes, and developer enablement platforms. Designing and guiding AI solution architectures that balance innovation, scalability, and security. Translating emerging AI trends and technologies (A2A, MCP, LangGraph, CrewAI) into actionable engineering and product strategies. Staying connected to the AI ecosystem, identifying opportunities from industry trends, research, and vendor developments. Building relationships with AI partners and platform providers to infuse external innovation into internal strategy. Driving incubation and innovation, converting exploratory work into reusable, production-grade capabilities. Communicating complex strategies clearly to executives and cross-functional teams. Fostering 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. One Last Thing OpenText is a global community where trust is foundational. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining an inclusive work environment for everyone, regardless of protected characteristics. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact OpenText encourages referrals and notifies candidates about new opportunities in their area. We’re committed to privacy, technology, and collaboration to empower our employees. Note : Seniority level, Employment type, Job function, and Industries are listed below. Seniority level Director Employment type Full-time Job function Engineering and Information Technology Industries Software Development Get notified about new Director of Artificial Intelligence jobs in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. 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