Sr. Director of Engineering

Job Description

As a Sr. Director of Engineering, you set the strategic direction for engineering at the company level and ensure that technology and organizational decisions are deeply aligned with long-term business outcomes. You are a senior leader who partners with the VP of Engineering and executive stakeholders to shape the culture, capability, and trajectory of the engineering organization. Your focus shifts from managing within a department to influencing the company by designing the systems, structures, and people strategies that allow engineering to scale and thrive.

Impact

  • Drive company-level technical strategy, shaping multi-year roadmaps that align engineering investments with business priorities and long-term growth objectives.
  • Own organizational design decisions that improve how engineering teams are structured, staffed, and operated at scale.
  • Identify and address systemic risks, process gaps, and capability shortfalls before they constrain delivery or culture.
  • Represent engineering in cross-functional executive partnerships, ensuring technology is a strategic enabler across the organization.
  • Manage and advocate for engineering’s investment in vendors, tooling, and technology platforms in alignment with company strategy.

Reach

  • Leadership Reach
    • Company
  • Technical Reach
    • Company

Your influence extends across the entire company. You shape how engineering is perceived, prioritized, and resourced at the executive level. You build trust and alignment with senior leaders across Product, Design, Finance, Business Operations, and beyond, ensuring engineering is a valued and visible partner in company-wide decisions.

Knowledge

  • Maintain deep technical credibility by understanding architectural trade-offs, emerging technology trends, and how to evaluate them against business context.
  • Develop and apply knowledge of organizational design, talent strategy, and team dynamics to build structures that scale effectively.
  • Understand the business deeply enough to translate company goals into engineering strategy, and engineering constraints into language executives can act on.
  • Stay connected to the external engineering community and industry trends to ensure the organization remains competitive and informed.

Communication

  • Operate as a clear, trusted voice at the executive level, communicating strategy, trade-offs, risks, and results with confidence and precision.
  • Connect technical decisions to business impact in ways that build credibility and earn organizational trust.
  • Create alignment across leadership and engineering through transparent, consistent, and timely communication.
  • Champion a communication culture within engineering that cascades clarity from strategy to execution at every level.

Leadership

  • Develop Directors and senior engineering leaders, building a strong bench of technical and organizational leadership across the company.
  • Own the talent strategy for engineering, including hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing leaders and teams at scale.
  • Set the cultural tone for engineering at the company level, modeling strategic thinking, accountability, empathy, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with the VP of Engineering and CIO to shape the long-term vision for engineering and contribute to the broader technology leadership agenda.
  • Serve as a steady, decisive leader in complex situations, resolving organizational conflicts, navigating ambiguity, and enabling teams to move forward with clarity and confidence.