Sr. Director of Software Engineering

The role

You will own engineering outcomes for the employee journey across multiple teams. You will lead AI-native product development and transform engineering practices using agentic practices.

What you will do

• Own engineering outcomes for the employee journey across multiple teams
• Align Product, Technology, Customer Experience, and go-to-market leaders around a unified strategy
• Lead AI-native product development across the employee journey
• Transform how engineering teams build by establishing agentic practices
• Turn decisions into reliable execution by establishing operating mechanisms
• Build a results-oriented leadership team of engineering managers and senior technical leaders
• Set the technical bar for architecture, quality, reliability, security, privacy, and technical health

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software development and engineering leadership
• 5+ years in a Director-level or comparable leader-of-leaders role across multiple SaaS product teams
• Demonstrated record of independently spotting important, ambiguous problems and owning measurable outcomes
• Exceptional product and business judgment
• Fluency using AI in your own leadership work
• Experience guiding engineering teams through an agentic transformation
• Experience leading AI-native products from problem selection through production
• Strong execution discipline
• Record of developing results-oriented engineering managers and senior technical leaders
• Strong architectural and technical depth
• Experience modernizing and operating secure, reliable SaaS systems at scale
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Experience in HR technology or adjacent employee-experience domains, especially benefits administration or payroll
• Experience building SaaS products for small and medium-sized businesses

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• 4 weeks of vacation
• 12 company holidays
• Parental leave
• Volunteer time off
• 401k plans with up to 6% company match
• $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus
• EAP through Headspace

Before you apply

• Employment is contingent on passing both a background and credit check

About the company

BambooHR is building a people intelligence platform that transforms HR. They are a market leader driving innovation through thoughtful, sustainable growth.