Director of Developer Productivity

The role

You will lead the engineering organization responsible for developer tooling and service platform infrastructure. You will set technical direction for developer tooling, drive organizational change to standardize building and shipping, and lead an AI-native developer experience strategy.

What you will do

• Own the strategy and roadmap for the AI-augmented developer platform
• Drive company-wide change management to standardize how engineering teams build and ship
• Lead, grow, and develop a team of engineers and engineering managers
• Scale the developer experience by architecting infrastructure for coding assistants and agentic workflows
• Optimize the engineering inner loop by owning strategy and tooling for local developer environments
• Collaborate with engineering managers, architects, product, and the CTO
• Define and track metrics like developer experience satisfaction and deployment frequency
• Represent the developer platform organization in executive-level conversations

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering or infrastructure
• At least 5 years leading platform, DevX, or infrastructure teams at a Director level or equivalent scope
• Proven track record of implementing, scaling, and measuring AI-assisted development tools across a scaled engineering organization of 300+ engineers
• Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change at scale
• Production-scale experience with Kubernetes (k8s), ArgoCD, and GitLab CI/CD platforms
• Technical and strategic mastery of modern coding assistant technologies (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude)
• Strong executive communication skills
• Experience operating in a complex, multi-team engineering environment

Nice to have

• Experience building internal custom AI tooling, fine-tuning models for coding tasks, or building custom RAG pipelines
• Background in fintech, payments, or other regulated, high-availability environments

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (majority of premiums covered including dependents)
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Flexible spending & health savings account
• Life and disability insurance
• Mental Wellbeing & Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 10 company holidays, 2 floating holidays and flexible time off
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with employee discounts
• Employee recognition and referral programs

Before you apply

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About the company

BILL is a fintech company that builds tools to help businesses automate financial processes. They are a remote-first organization with office spaces in San Jose, CA and Draper, UT.