Director of Engineering | Growth & Transformation

The role

You will lead the engineering organization for a client's acquisition and digital operations. This includes managing managers and tech leads who build AI-native products and agentic workflows. You will own technical delivery and senior client relationships.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and grow engineering managers and tech leads.
• Set the organization's technical strategy, roadmap, and operating rhythm.
• Hire and retain senior engineering talent.
• Set expectations for working with coding agents and agentic workflows.
• Serve as the senior engineering partner to client executives.
• Turn partner objectives into technical roadmaps with success metrics.
• Present trade-offs, risks, and results to senior leaders.
• Lead through deployments, incidents, and sensitive conversations.
• Guide architecture decisions across React, Next.js, Go, AWS, and Terraform.
• Review designs and agent-generated plans.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 4+ years leading engineering teams
• 2+ years managing managers or tech leads
• Strong engineering foundation in modern web, cloud, and distributed systems
• Experience with digital acquisition and conversion experiences
• Depth in React, Next.js, Go, AWS, and Terraform
• Experience owning client or partner relationships
• Familiarity with agentic systems and AI-assisted development
• Experience building and scaling engineering organizations
• Experience with contractual and regulatory obligations (SLAs, audit, OWASP, WCAG, GDPR/CCPA)
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Nice to have

• Experience in a services, agency, or partner-facing environment
• Experience in financial services

Benefits

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 20 days of PTO annually, increasing to 25 days after five years of service

Before you apply

• Not open to visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship (including H1-B, F-1, OPT, STEM-OPT, or TN visa)
• Not available to work corp-to-corp
• Expect live conversations with teammates before an offer is made

About the company

Red Ventures is a global portfolio of high-growth companies. Their businesses include The Points Guy, Lonely Planet, Bankrate, the Allconnect Platform, RV Home Client Growth, RV Growth & Transformation, and Sage Home Loans Corporation.