Director of Product Engineering (Hybrid)

The role

The Director of Product Engineering defines and executes long-term engineering strategy to align with business objectives. This leader oversees multiple engineering organizations and manages Engineering Directors and senior technical leaders.

What you will do

• Develop and execute long-term engineering strategy.
• Partner with CTO and executive leadership on technology investments and strategic initiatives.
• Lead organizational planning across multiple engineering functions.
• Establish engineering governance, operating rhythms, and decision-making frameworks.
• Recruit, hire, develop, and retain engineering leadership and technical talent.
• Lead, coach, and mentor Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders.
• Drive modernization initiatives for platform scalability, reliability, and security.
• Set and drive the organization's AI strategy.
• Own engineering operating plans, workforce planning, and budget forecasting.
• Manage Engineering Directors and senior engineering leaders.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience in high-growth technology organizations.
• 7+ years leading Engineering Managers, and multi-level engineering organizations.
• Success leading organizations of 50+ engineers across multiple functional areas.
• Experience developing engineering leaders and building scalable organizations.
• Experience defining long-term engineering strategy and executing organizational transformation.
• Experience partnering with executive leadership to influence company strategy and technology investments.
• Experience owning workforce planning, organizational design, budgeting, and resource allocation.
• Track record implementing engineering governance, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Experience shipping AI/ML-powered products including personalization, recommendations, search relevance, LLMs, and AI-native engineering practices.
• Success leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, quality, and delivery.
• Understanding of modern software architecture, cloud platforms, distributed systems, security, and scalable engineering practices.
• Exceptional executive communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience within marketplace, SaaS, or consumer technology organizations.
• Experience leading engineering organizations through rapid scale, organizational transformation, mergers, acquisitions, or IPO readiness.
• Experience integrating third-party LLMs, foundation models, and establishing responsible AI governance.
• Experience building AI-first engineering organizations and implementing enterprise AI strategies.
• Experience presenting technology strategy and organizational performance to executive leadership, Boards of Directors, or investors.
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering organizations across multiple regions and time zones.

Benefits

• Physical Health (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• 100% employer-paid premium for employees
• Up to 80% coverage for dependents
• Company HSA contribution with the High Deductible Health Plan
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with up to 3.5% employer match
• Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance options
• Supplemental, voluntary benefits
• Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings with monthly company contribution
• FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Short- and long-term Disability Insurance

About the company

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