Senior Director of Engineering

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Job Description

Senior Director of Engineering

product delivery

Senior Director


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 CSM. COE, web programmers, and product teams.
  • Work with and guide the team in adopting AI across the organization as well as in products.

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 and 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.
  • Help 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.
  • Help teams to think out of the box to use AI to drive operational excellence.


Preferred Qualifications and Experience—

  • Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience working in startup-to-scaleup environments.
  • Background in data-intensive or AI-first products.
  • Experience leading teams in a hyper growth company
  • Excellent communication


What You Bring

  • 18+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in multi-team engineering leadership roles.
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams (Dev, QA, IT, R&D) in a

    SaaS or platform product

    environment.
  • Strong technical foundation (e.g., cloud, microservices, distributed systems, platform architecture).
  • Proven ability to build, lead, and scale high-performing teams.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills—able to align execs, product, and teams.
  • Experience with agile scaling, org design, performance management, and change leadership.
  • A balanced leadership style: decisive but collaborative, strategic but grounded.
  • Diverse experience of working in small startups to enterprise-grade organizations.
  • Having worked in AI in the last couple of years.


Why This Role Matters

technology

engineering leadership team


Why Join Us?

  • Work on innovative and impactful products used in digital marketing and content management.
  • Lead a high-caliber team in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
  • Opportunity to shape technology strategy at a company that is on the forefront of applying AI to help customers in digital marketing.

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