Director of Engineering, Client Experience
Forge · San Francisco, CA · 1 mo ago
HybridEngineering$245k–$270k/yrFull-time
What You'll Do
- Recruit, lead and develop CX engineers to realize a highly engaged team
- Partner with Product, Architecture, and Business leaders to define priorities and deliver meaningful outcomes
- Drive execution across complex initiatives while balancing speed, quality, scalability, and operational excellence
- Help establish technical direction and guide architectural decisions that support long-term business objectives
- Foster engineering best practices across software development, testing, security, reliability, and system operations
- Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning
- Coach and mentor engineering managers and individual contributors to support their growth and career development
- Drive cross-functional alignment and help teams navigate ambiguity to achieve results
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering processes, team effectiveness, and organizational scalability
- Contribute to technology strategy and investment decisions across the broader engineering organization
Qualifications
- Strong technical foundation and a solid understanding of modern software engineering principles and practices
- Proven experience leading engineering teams through complex technical and organizational challenges
- Able to balance strategic thinking with a practical, execution-oriented mindset
- Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional stakeholders at multiple levels of the organization
- Track record of building, developing, and retaining high-performing teams
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities
- Passion for technology, people leadership, and delivering customer value