Director of Engineering – Product

Stellenbeschreibung:

Own multiple product squads within the engineering organization
Independently lead squads and deliver all squad goals
Manage team members across squads while driving results and retention
Shepherd architecture, engineering decisions, and development priorities in alignment with product and business goals
Establish healthy, sustainable, efficient, and high-quality teams
Partner with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to define squad goals and align engineering priorities
Develop staffing strategies while balancing company and squad goals with business constraints
Advance technical decisions that improve delivery quality and efficiency
Multiply squad impact through culture, process, tooling, and technology
Own critical relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Establish quality practices across squads and engineering
Facilitate continuous learning from production errors and incidents
Improve security, testing, and scaling practices
Escalate major production issues and establish processes to reduce escalation needs
Recruit, hire, and manage team members across multiple squads
Own team-member retention, growth, performance management, feedback, and guidance
Ensure teams operate with high velocity and clear goals
Unblock cross-team and cross-functional challenges
Monitor sprint retrospectives, project progress, and team reflections to improve operations
Take hands-on ownership of challenging or critical needs when necessary
Identify improvements for the overall engineering organization
Support team members through pairing, review, and related activities
Represent the team and organization internally and externally

Requirements

Prior experience in technical leadership roles driving business, product, and technical outcomes, such as tech lead, manager, or director
Hands-on development and design experience with demanding architectures involving scale, security, and product considerations
Ability to onboard to a variety of tech stacks
Experience with React, Python, AWS, and MongoDB, or demonstrated ability to onboard effectively to comparable stacks
Successfully managed and scaled multiple teams
Experience shepherding engineering organizations through major technical decisions, changes in scale, and maturation of technology platforms powering mission-critical products
Experience representing an organization and company in internal and external high-stakes conversations
Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, especially startups
Proactive and solutions-oriented
Ownership mentality with a commitment to delivering exceptional results for customers
Willingness to answer whether work authorization sponsorship in the United States is required

Demonstrates strong technical leadership with hands-on experience in managing and scaling engineering teams, driving business and product outcomes, and establishing quality practices. Proficient in React, Python, AWS, and MongoDB, with a focus on improving delivery quality and efficiency in fast-paced environments.