Stitch Fix · 3 days ago
Director, Data & AI Platform Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$170K/yr - $284K/yr
10+ years expStitch Fix is the leading online personal styling service that helps people discover styles they will love. They are seeking a Director of Data & AI Platform Engineering to lead the design and operation of core data, machine learning, and generative AI platforms, driving innovation and technical direction across the company.
ApparelE-CommerceFashionRetail
Responsibilities
Lead the strategy and execution for Stitch Fix’s next-gen Data, ML, and GenAI platforms - building a unified, secure and scalable architecture for semantic search, retrieval-based intelligence, multi-model orchestration, and agent automation, while operationalizing GenAI through safe, performant, and production-ready systems that power real-world client and employee experiences
Drive modernization of data and ML foundations to support unified signals, adaptive models, experimentation velocity, and scalable AI/ML workloads
Provide foundational APIs, SDKs, frameworks, and self-service tools that make it easy for data scientists, ML engineers, analysts, and application teams to build and deploy AI solutions quickly, safely, and at scale
Partner with Data Science, Engineering, and Product teams to translate Data/ML/GenAI platform capabilities into production-grade features and intelligent experiences that deliver measurable business value
Drive responsible, enterprise-wide AI and data adoption by creating reusable templates, documentation, and enablement programs, and by partnering closely with technology and business teams to identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities for personalization, automation, and intelligence
Establish strong governance practices including data contracts, lineage, metric definitions, access policies, and responsible AI guardrails - for trust, safety, and compliance
Ensure operational excellence through platform reliability, performance, observability, cost efficiency, and simplification of legacy systems
Lead and develop high-performing engineering teams fostering a culture of clarity, excellence, and trust
Balance speed of innovation with platform stability, ensuring engineering efforts are tightly aligned to business priorities and long-term client value
Qualification
Required
10+ years in software, data, ML, or platform engineering; 5+ years leading engineering managers or multi-team platform groups
Demonstrated success owning large-scale data platforms, ML platforms, or AI/GenAI platforms in cloud environments
Experience driving platform modernization, unification, and multi-year architectural transformation
Strong software engineering foundation, with experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and resilient, high-quality APIs and services using modern programming languages and cloud-native architectures
Strong track record operating and evolving modern data infrastructure, including distributed compute and storage technologies (Spark, Trino, Iceberg), real-time processing frameworks (Kafka/Flink), metadata / catalog systems, and Kubernetes-based orchestration
Deep expertise across the ML lifecycle - feature engineering, training pipelines, model deployment and serving, monitoring, validation, fine-tuning, and MLOps best practices
Proven capability in building self-service platform abstractions and tooling that enable teams to develop, experiment, and deploy data and ML products efficiently
Experience with modern GenAI architectures - semantic retrieval, knowledge-grounded indexing, LLM orchestration, agent workflows, and evaluation frameworks
Familiarity with modern ML frameworks like PyTorch and Ray is a plus
Strategic thinker able to align platform investments with business priorities and emerging AI opportunities
Strong people leader with a track record of building inclusive, high-performing engineering teams
Excellent communicator who can influence both technical and business stakeholders at all levels
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits
Comprehensive compensation packages and inclusive health and wellness benefits
Annual bonus
New hire and ongoing grants of restricted stock units, depending on employee and company performance
Company
Stitch Fix
Stitch Fix is a personal styling platform that delivers curated and personalized apparel and accessory items for women.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Stitch Fix has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (22)
2024 (18)
2023 (17)
2022 (45)
2021 (34)
2020 (30)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$54.35MKey Investors
Benchmark
2017-11-17IPO
2017-11-09Series Unknown· $11.85M
2014-06-10Series C· $25M
Leadership Team
Katrina Lake
Founder, CEO --> Executive Chairperson
Matt Baer
Chief Executive Officer
Recent News
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2025-12-24
2025-12-11
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