Director of Engineering

Director Of EngineeringWe are looking for a Director of Engineering who operates with the mindset of a product executive to lead, align, and scale our core engineering organization. Our team includes multiple core engineering groups focused on customer-facing product development, as well as a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) function that moves fast across the full stack on high-priority enterprise initiatives. Under your leadership, these teams will build and scale high-throughput systems that ingest large volumes of social data, run real-time AI agents, and deliver insights through analytics and automation.This is an executive-level leadership role that bridges technical vision, organizational scale, and business strategy. At the same time, you will build and empower high-performing engineering teams, manage engineering managers and leads, establish systemic technical quality, and guide our engineering organization as we scale from ~50 people into our next phase of growth.What You'll Be DoingOrganizational Leadership & Team Scaling: Lead, manage, and mentor a high-performing engineering organization, including Engineering Managers and Tech Leads. Build scalable org structures, career ladders, and succession plans to retain top talent.Product & Strategic Alignment: Partner directly with the CEO and executive peers to define long-term roadmaps, align engineering capacity with business priorities, and turn product vision into predictable technical execution.Technical Vision & System Governance: Set the high-level technical strategy, architecture principles, and infrastructure roadmap. Ensure scalable system architecture across teams handling high-volume real-time data and AI agentic workflows.Execution & Delivery Excellence: Drive operational rigor across all engineering teams. Establish clear metrics for delivery velocity, system reliability, code quality, and operational health.Customer & Market Empathy: Engage directly with key enterprise customers and prospects to understand user pain points, build deep business intuition, and ensure technical investments map directly to business value.Engineering Culture & Processes: Shape engineering culture as the company scales. Refine organizational processes around architecture reviews, incident response, resource allocation, and continuous improvement.Hiring & Employer Brand: Partner with Talent Acquisition to scale the engineering department, driving talent acquisition strategies, executive hiring, and interviewing standards for top-tier technical talent.What We're Looking ForExperience Level: 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior leadership role (Director, Head of Engineering) managing managers and leading multi-team organizations.Track Record of Scaling: Proven experience growing engineering teams and organizational structures through key growth phases (e.g., scaling orgs from 30 to 100+ engineers).Strategic Product Acumen: Strong business and product instincts with a track record of translating complex product objectives into achievable engineering roadmaps and resource plans.Technical Depth: Deep foundational technical background with the ability to hold engineering teams accountable, evaluate high-level architectural trade-offs, and participate in complex technical discussions.Executive Cross-Functional Collaboration: History of working seamlessly alongside Product, Design, Sales, and Customer Success executives in fast-paced startup environments.Operational Mastery: Demonstrated ability to implement light-footprint, high-impact processes that maintain speed and quality without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy.Communication & Executive Presence: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting technical strategy to executive leadership, boards, and customers.Bonus PointsDomain Expertise: Experience leading engineering teams in B2B SaaS, social data platforms, developer tools, or marketing technology.AI & Data Infrastructure at Scale: Experience overseeing teams building, deploying, or operating AI-powered systems, real-time analytics platforms, or agentic frameworks.Tech Stack Alignment: Strategic familiarity with modern cloud and data stacks such as AWS, TypeScript/React, Postgres, ClickHouse, and modern infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Pulumi).Cross-Platform Leadership: Executive oversight of teams delivering both web and native mobile application ecosystems.