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Role Description

We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead multiple teams and increase the rate of meaningful, customer-visible product outcomes. This leader will manage engineering managers and senior technical leaders, drive milestone-based execution, and ensure teams deliver predictable, business-impacting results. Success in this role is measured by shipped outcomes, improved delivery velocity, and stronger cross-functional alignment.

• Driving predictable, milestone-based delivery of customer-visible outcomes across your teams
• Removing the platform, process, and legacy friction that slows teams down
• Using data to improve delivery effectiveness and make sound decisions under ambiguity
• Maintaining cost discipline without sacrificing reliability or velocity
• Making architectural and platform decisions that simplify systems and accelerate delivery over time
• Bringing strong enough technical depth to evaluate tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and guide Staff+ engineers on complex problems
• Establish standards, governance, and ROI targets for AI-assisted engineering tools
• Managing and developing 4-6 engineering managers and staff engineers with clear accountability for outcomes
• Building leadership depth among Staff+ engineers who can drive cross-team impact
• Setting high performance standards and addressing underperformance directly and fairly
• Building and sustaining a culture of psychological safety, direct feedback, and high accountability
• Owning engineering vendor relationships and performance
• Aligning engineering delivery with measurable business outcomes
• Communicating trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• Partnering with cross-functional leaders to define strategic priorities and evaluate multi-quarter roadmaps

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering organizations through multiple phases of growth, scale, or transformation
• Experience managing engineering managers or leading multiple teams with distributed ownership
• Experience overseeing 15+ engineers across multiple teams
• Proven track record delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Strong architectural and systems design fluency
• Demonstrated ability to raise performance standards within teams
• Experience balancing speed with long-term technical quality

Requirements

• Experience leading platform migrations or large-scale refactors
• Experience in SaaS or marketplace environments
• Experience implementing AI-assisted engineering tooling

Benefits

• Healthy living - medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, disability, life, wellness & fitness programs
• Future living - 401(k) match, performance bonuses, education assistance, learning & development
• Enjoy living - generous paid time off, parental leave, flexible summer hours, social & giving events