Director, Software Engineering Management

Role and team

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Security, Operations, Sales, and Customer Success on roadmaps, release readiness, compliance, and customer feedback.
• Own technical strategy and delivery; set architectural direction and maintain quality and reliability.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers, technical leads, and managers, building inclusive teams with clear career paths.
• Identify AI-native product opportunities in agentic patterns, data use, and autonomous workflows, and turn recommendations into executable work.
• Establish architecture patterns, engineering standards, and operating rhythms; document tradeoffs and implementation guidance.
• Share learning across the organization and accelerate adoption of effective engineering patterns.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of related engineering experience, including 7+ years leading and managing engineering teams for a product at scale.
• Significant experience building 0-to-1 startup products, taking them to market, and rapidly scaling users through product-led growth and experiments.
• Strong experience with large-scale distributed systems, enterprise or workflow platforms, data-intensive products, integration frameworks, or cloud-scale infrastructure.
• Deep system-design knowledge covering scale, reliability, observability, fault tolerance, data quality, security, and production readiness.
• Ability to set technical direction, influence architecture, and translate ambiguous strategy into executable plans.
• Experience building high-performance teams of senior engineers while supporting wellbeing and aligning cross-functional partners.
• Strong judgment balancing architecture, execution, customer impact, engineering velocity, and business priorities.
• Strong experience with AI-powered products, AI-assisted workflows, and extensive AI use in the software development lifecycle.

Compensation

• The stated base-pay range for positions in this location is $100,000–$200,000, plus equity when applicable, variable or incentive compensation, and benefits.
• Compensation varies based on factors including qualifications, skills, competencies, and work location.

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