Director, Engineering & Delivery

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams across Web, Mobile, CTV, and API services.
• Ensure scalable, maintainable, performant systems that support streaming and content delivery at scale.
• Improve engineering standards, development practices, and technical discipline.
• Identify structural inefficiencies and implement improvements.
• Drive down technical debt while maintaining delivery velocity.
• Establish pragmatic architectural alignment across platforms (without creating unnecessary process overhead).
• Own end-to-end delivery execution for product initiatives.
• Lead PMO, project managers, and scrum masters to improve planning rigor, forecasting accuracy, and cross-team coordination.
• Implement systems and metrics that increase visibility into systems health and transparency.
• Remove bottlenecks and reduce cycle time from concept to release.
• Improve release management and dependency management across teams.
• Oversee QA under a dedicated QA Lead.
• Elevate automation, regression practices, and quality gates.
• Integrate QA earlier into the development lifecycle.
• Minimize escaped defects and production issues.
• Build a culture of shared quality ownership across engineering.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
• Improve developer productivity through modern tooling, automation, and process redesign.
• Reimagine SDLC practices for a faster, more adaptive product organization.
• Partner with Product and Data to enable faster experimentation cycles.
• Lead and develop Engineering Managers, PMO leaders, and QA leadership.
• Understand our codebases intimately and contribute when needed.
• Build a culture that is product-minded, accountable, collaborative, and high-ownership.
• Collaborate effectively with centrally owned platform teams (e.g., Profile, CMS, Video Player).
• Influence shared roadmaps while aligning to local product needs.
• Navigate internal dependencies and organizational complexity to unblock execution.
• Break down traditional silos between Product and Engineering, especially during solutioning and discovery phases.
• Recruit and scale talent strategically as needed.
• Establish clear performance expectations and career paths.

Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including multi-platform digital products. With a focus on Reactjs, React Native, Roku, Swift/Kotlin, and Go languages.
• Experience leading engineering in media, streaming, consumer tech, or high-scale digital environments.
• Proven ability to improve execution rigor and delivery predictability.
• Experience overseeing PMO or delivery organizations.
• Strong understanding of mobile, web, backend architectures, and streaming ecosystems.
• Experience navigating federated technology organizations.
• Demonstrated success driving modernization initiatives (automation, AI adoption, DevOps improvements).
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.