Director, Engineering
Position Summary
The Director, Engineering is responsible for architecting and scaling Empower’s regulated digital ecosystem to support hyper-growth, patient safety, and enterprise velocity. This role owns the digital backbone spanning cloud platforms, mobile products, data, and AI-enabled systems that power manufacturing, quality, patient engagement, and prescribing experiences.
Responsibilities
Enterprise Digital Strategy and Architecture
- Define and execute a multi-year digital strategy aligned to enterprise growth, regulatory demands, and AI-enabled scalability.
- Architect cloud-native, modular platforms embedding compliance, auditability, and data integrity by design.
- Partner with executives to evaluate tradeoffs using system behavior, regulatory risk, and long-term value creation.
Product and Mobile Experience Leadership
- Own digital product strategy across patient, prescriber, and internal platforms with outcome accountability.
- Lead secure, high-performance mobile experiences that personalize care and streamline prescribing workflows.
- Establish agile delivery models balancing rapid iteration, quality, and regulatory readiness.
Artificial Intelligence and Data Enablement
- Define enterprise AI strategy focused on high-impact, regulated use cases across operations and care delivery.
- Deploy production-grade, explainable AI systems that perform reliably under regulatory scrutiny.
- Build data architectures and analytics foundations enabling predictive insight and decision automation.
Regulatory-Native Execution
- Embed FDA, GxP, DEA, HIPAA, and data governance requirements into digital systems as core design constraints.
- Ensure AI and digital platforms remain auditable, validated, and compliant throughout their lifecycle.
- Actively manage technology risk, shutting down or redesigning initiatives that introduce unacceptable exposure.
Organization and Operating Rhythm
- Design and scale a high-performance digital organization aligned to enterprise priorities.
- Attract, develop, and retain top-tier talent while maintaining high performance standards.
- Establish operating cadences, metrics, and accountability mechanisms that translate commitments into results.
Knowledge and Skills
- Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, mobile platforms, data engineering, and AI systems deployed in regulated environments with high availability, security, and auditability requirements.
- Proven ability to operationalize AI responsibly, including model governance, explainability, bias mitigation, and lifecycle management in high-stakes, compliance-driven settings.
- Strong product leadership translating complex clinical, manufacturing, and operational workflows into intuitive, outcome-driven digital experiences.
- Executive-level communication and systems thinking, enabling clear tradeoffs, cross-functional alignment, and disciplined execution at enterprise scale.
Key Competencies
- Customer Focus: Builds trust through customer-centric solutions.
- Strategic AI: Guides responsible AI adoption and adaptation.
- Optimizes Work Processes: Drives efficiency with continuous improvement.
- Collaborates: Partners effectively to achieve shared goals.
- Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources efficiently.
- Manages Complexity: Simplifies and solves complex challenges.
- Ensures Accountability: Delivers on commitments with integrity.
- Situational Adaptability: Adjusts approach to shifting conditions.
- Communicates Effectively: Tailors messages to diverse audiences.
Values
- People: Empowering people defines who we are.
- Quality: Excellence in every product, every time.
- Service: Serving others is our highest purpose.
- Innovation: Advancing care through technology and discovery.
Employee Benefits, Health, and Wellness
We offer comprehensive benefits to support your health, well-being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, 401(k) matching, wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications. Learn more: here.
Physical Requirements
While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. Employees are regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.