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Lead design and scaling of content ingestion, metadata, and processing systems. Build reliable pipelines handling messy formats, collaborate with ML, security, and product teams, mentor engineers, and drive platform and AI/LLM integration for content workflows and quality.

Design, implement, and scale event-driven, distributed backend systems in Python on AWS to process and enrich large-scale document and media datasets. Lead technical projects, mentor engineers, integrate ML/LLM components, optimize performance, maintain observability, and collaborate with Data Science, ML Engineering, and Product to deliver reliable high-throughput content processing services.

Lead the product strategy for Scribd's internal developer and agentic platforms: unify AI workstreams, own internal app/plugin/agent runtimes, translate functional needs into platform requirements, drive cross-functional adoption and metrics, and run internal rollouts and evaluation to prove impact.

Build and optimize frontend signup and activation experiences using modern JavaScript and TypeScript. Collaborate with product, design, and analytics to implement high-converting, accessible, and performant user flows, own features from design through implementation, and participate in experimentation and personalization to improve conversion.

Design and implement features for content ingestion pipelines, metadata services, and content processing workflows. Build reliable, observable services that handle diverse file formats, malformed inputs, retries, and asynchronous workflows. Collaborate with ML, Search & Discovery, and Product to improve metadata extraction, classification, and discoverability while leveraging LLM-based tools and AI-driven practices.

Lead and grow a Data Engineering team to build production data pipelines, medallion datasets, and reusable data products. Drive architecture, engineering standards, design reviews, and cross-functional delivery. Partner with Product, Analytics, Data Science, and Platform to enable governed, reliable data foundations for analytics and AI. Mentor engineers and manage multiple concurrent initiatives to deliver predictable outcomes.

Lead zero-to-one transformation of Scribd's knowledge platform using ML/LLMs. Set product vision, roadmap, and success metrics; prioritize trade-offs; partner with Design, Engineering, ML, and Data Science; deliver incremental improvements and extensible platform capabilities; drive cross-functional alignment and measure core user journeys.