Director of Engineering, Leverage

About the role

The Director of the Leverage Engineering Pod leads a team of three squads: Foundations Engineering, Builder Experience, and Solutions Engineering. The Pod’s mission is to multiply the delivery capacity of all of Product & Engineering. The role reports directly to the VP of Engineering and sits on the Product & Engineering Senior Leadership Team.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategy for how leverage is measured across Product & Engineering: the cadence, the expectations, and the evidence that your Squads are making every other Pod faster.
• Own the Pod's vision, roadmap, and investment case end to end, which means bringing product judgment as well as engineering leadership: discovering what your internal customers need, prioritizing a portfolio across three very different Squads, and making the case for the investment each deserves.
• Modernize our Product Development Lifecycle through Engineering: pursue step changes in how we deliver software, leading the shift from AI-assisted to agentic development on your own Squads first and as a model for the rest of engineering.
• Run a disciplined intake: this Pod exists to multiply the organization, and you will protect its charter rather than let it become a catch-all for unowned work.
• Hire, develop, and retain engineering managers and senior individual contributors; own performance, succession, and engagement across the Pod.
• Partner with the VP of Engineering and CTO on vision, with our Platform Engineering Pod on the seam between infrastructure and application frameworks, and with our Design System team on the front-end foundation.
• Own the Pod's budget across tooling and agency spend, and be accountable for the throughput it buys.

Requirements

• 3+ years leading engineering organizations as a Director or Senior Engineering Manager, including managing managers.
• Experience leading engineering through real scale, growing teams while a business expanded from roughly $100M to $300M in revenue.
• Experience delivering meaningful work through outside partners: selecting agencies or outsourced teams, managing statements of work, and keeping quality and ownership clean through handoff.
• Experience using AI development tools daily and changing how a team builds software with them.
• A track record of attracting, developing, and retaining strong engineers and future leaders.

Qualifications

• Exceptional written and verbal communication: you can make an investment case to executives and a technical case to Staff engineers.
• Considered a plus: experience building applications with Ruby on Rails and React, experience standing up a professional services, field engineering, or partner delivery function inside a product company, experience treating an internal platform as a product: adoption metrics, internal customer discovery, deprecation management, familiarity with native mobile development (iOS and Android).

Skills

• Strong leadership skills, with a proven track record of driving results and scaling teams.
• Experience with AI-assisted development and the ability to apply this knowledge to improve software delivery processes.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails and React is considered a plus.
• Familiarity with native mobile development (iOS and Android) is considered a plus.

Benefits

• Multiple health/dental coverage options (100% coverage for employee, 50% for family)
• Vision insurance
• Incentive stock options
• 401(k) match of 4%
• PTO - 4 weeks (increases at year two!)
• 12 company holidays + 2 floating holidays
• Parental leave - birthing parent (16 weeks paid), non-birthing (4 weeks paid)
• FSA & HSA options
• Short and long term disability (short term 100% paid)
• Community service funds
• Professional development funds
• Wellbeing fund - $150 quarterly
• Business expense stipend - $125 quarterly
• Mac laptop + new hire equipment stipend
• Fully stocked kitchen with tons of drinks & snacks (BHM only)
• Remote working friendly since 2012

Pay

Competitive salary and equity package.

Schedule

Full-time, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm.