Senior Director of Engineering

As a Senior Director of Engineering, you will partner closely with the VP of Engineering to scale the product engineering organization. Your role will require a strong technical depth along with exceptional people and customer management skills. You will play a pivotal role in driving product delivery, technical strategy, organizational health, and AI initiatives. Collaborating with the VP of Engineering, you will contribute to strategic innovation and long-term platform evolution. The ideal candidate for this role will have a proven track record of technical leadership and cross-functional execution. You are expected to lead and scale software product engineering teams, demonstrating strategic thinking and hands-on leadership with at least 18+ years of industry experience, including 5+ years in leadership roles. Your expertise should encompass modern software architectures, AI/ML technologies, and cloud platforms, enabling you to inspire, align, and deliver across multiple teams and stakeholders. **Key Responsibilities:** **Technical Leadership** - - Champion engineering excellence and adopt best practices in software development and system design. - Ensure high-quality, reliable, and secure software development across teams. - Guide modernization efforts, technical debt reduction, and platform stability. - Drive the adoption of AI/ML capabilities across products and platforms in collaboration with other teams. **People & Organizational Leadership** - - Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior individual contributors. - Scale and structure teams to match product growth and roadmap needs. - Foster a high-performance, inclusive, and accountable engineering culture. - Champion career development, succession planning, and leadership grooming. **Cross-Functional Partnership** - - Act as the primary liaison between engineering and key functions like Product, Sales, digital experience, and customer success. - Communicate engineering priorities, risks, and trade-offs clearly to business stakeholders. - Represent engineering in leadership and strategic planning forums. **Execution Ownership** - - Understand industry and customer requirements to translate business and product goals into engineering roadmaps and team plans. - Own delivery timelines, resourcing, and team coordination across multiple workstreams. - Drive improvements in agile practices, metrics, and reporting across engineering functions. **Strategic Partnership** - - Partner with the VP of Engineering to evolve tech vision, drive org-wide alignment, and make critical decisions. - Assist the VP in key engineering decisions when needed. **Operational Excellence** - - Establish and track KPIs and OKRs for engineering performance, delivery, and quality. - Own and optimize SDLC processes to improve efficiency, scalability, and reliability. - Ensure systems are secure, scalable, and maintainable. - Encourage teams to leverage AI for operational excellence. **Preferred Qualifications and Experience:** - Masters or Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, or related field. - Experience in startup-to-scaleup environments with a background in data-intensive or AI-first products. - Demonstrated leadership in hyper-growth companies with excellent communication skills. **What You Bring:** - 18+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in multi-team engineering leadership roles. - Strong technical foundation in cloud, microservices, distributed systems, and platform architecture. - Proven ability to build, lead, and scale high-performing teams. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with a focus on alignment across teams. - Experience in agile scaling, org design, performance management, and change leadership. - A balanced leadership style that is decisive, collaborative, strategic, and grounded. - Diverse experience in small startups to enterprise-grade organizations with recent work in AI. This role is critical in scaling both the technology and the engineering organization, acting as a force multiplier to the VP of Engineering. You will lead delivery and people development while contributing to architectural and strategic decisions, shaping the platform, culture, and execution in the next stage of growth. Join us to work on innovative products in digital marketing, lead a high-caliber team in a dynamic environment, and shape technology strategy in the application of AI for customer benefit.,