Senior Director, Engineering & Applied Science - VenturaOS

The role

You will lead the VenturaOS engineering organization and serve as the senior technical leader for the platform. You will own technical strategy, architecture, and execution while partnering with Product, Business, and Executive leadership.

What you will do

• Lead and scale the VenturaOS engineering organization
• Own the long-term technical vision and architecture for VenturaOS
• Partner with Product and Business leadership to shape platform strategy and roadmap
• Drive engineering strategy across diverse hardware environments
• Ensure platform reliability, performance, security, and scalability
• Establish engineering principles, operating rhythms, and technical standards
• Represent VenturaOS in executive and external partner discussions

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of experience leading large-scale engineering organizations, including leaders of leaders
• Strong technical depth across operating systems, platform architecture, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
• Proven track record building and scaling platform, OS, or infrastructure-focused teams in fast-moving environments
• Deep understanding of platform dynamics, including OEM ecosystems, partner incentives, and tradeoffs
• Demonstrated ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes
• Exceptional communication, executive presence, and ability to influence senior stakeholders and external partners

Nice to have

• Experience in Connected TV, consumer operating systems, digital media platforms, or large-scale device ecosystems

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
• Retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Well-being benefits
• Reimbursement for certain tuition expenses
• Parental leave
• Sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked
• Vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter
• Around 13 paid holidays per year
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan to purchase stock at a discount

About the company

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