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Design, operate, and scale distributed infrastructure powering production AI agents for financial institutions. Responsibilities include Kubernetes architecture, Terraform and GitOps pipelines, multi-region reliability, disaster recovery, observability, incident response, security hardening, and distributed-systems troubleshooting. The role partners with ML, platform, and security teams, participates in on-call rotation, and mentors engineers.

Own the technical direction and architecture of real-time AI voice and compliance systems. Lead a team while remaining hands-on with coding, system design, reviews, mentoring, hiring, and production operations. Build scalable Kubernetes-based distributed services, maintain sub-700ms voice latency, improve reliability and observability, and develop self-improving AI feedback loops. Partner with product, customers, and forward-deployed engineers to deliver secure, compliant systems for regulated banking environments.

Leads the deployments organization responsible for taking AI agents from signed contracts to production at banks, lenders, and mortgage servicers. Owns customer delivery, integrations, UAT, go-live, compliance coordination, deployment processes, team building, pricing, capacity planning, and customer outcomes. Partners with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success to create repeatable deployment playbooks and inform the product roadmap.

Own Kastle’s global events program across North America and internationally, from executive dinners and conferences to roadshows and customer gatherings. Responsibilities include event strategy, audience development, vendor and agency management, budgets, production, on-site execution, customer engagement, sales alignment, performance measurement, and building scalable operating processes. The role requires frequent travel, strong hospitality instincts, commercial focus, and close collaboration with founders, sales, customers, and marketing.

Build and operate Kastle’s AI compliance program for lending and banking workflows. Translate regulations into product requirements, compliance tests, controls, policies, and customer guidance. Advise product and engineering teams, review AI interactions and disclosures, maintain regulatory requirements, partner with bank compliance teams, and draft or negotiate commercial, data protection, and compliance agreements.

Own end-to-end AI deployments for major financial institutions, from requirements and agent customization through production adoption. Partner with executives on AI roadmaps, compliance, operational redesign, and customer outcomes. Translate customer needs into production-grade systems with engineering, monitor account health, drive retention and expansion, and provide data-backed product feedback. Help establish playbooks, hiring standards, and operating processes for the growing Agent Success function.

Own relationships with Kastle’s largest lender and servicer accounts after go-live, driving renewals, expansion, executive engagement, quarterly business reviews, product demonstrations, and customer advocacy. The role requires consultative enterprise selling, knowledge of mortgage lending operations, strong executive relationship management, and collaboration with deployment and engineering teams to resolve issues and shape product direction.

Lead Kastle’s recruiting and people function as its first dedicated people leader. Build scalable hiring, performance management, compensation, career development, HR infrastructure, compliance, and culture programs while advising leadership on organizational design and talent decisions. Manage the recruiting team and develop AI-enabled sourcing processes as the company scales rapidly.

Manage full-cycle technical recruiting, including sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and placement. Recruit software engineers, machine learning engineers, and forward-deployed engineers while partnering with hiring managers and founders. Build candidate pipelines, track recruiting metrics, coordinate interviews, maintain candidate relationships, and provide market intelligence on technical talent availability, compensation, and hiring practices.

Build Kastle’s growth engine by mapping target accounts, developing outbound campaigns, creating automated growth tools, owning product messaging, managing events, and testing creative ways to reach senior buyers. The role combines writing, campaign execution, data analysis, AI-enabled automation, lead tracking, sales enablement, and continuous experimentation to generate qualified sales opportunities across financial-services markets.