Hybrid Director, Engineering

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About the role

  • Director of Engineering leading Conversational AI initiatives at Clari + Salesloft. Responsible for technical vision, team leadership, and driving strategic projects.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the long-term technical vision, roadmap, and architecture for the engineering organization
  • Align engineering strategy with overall business goals and product vision
  • Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and methodologies
  • Ensure technical decisions support scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability
  • Lead, mentor, and grow multiple Engineering Managers and/or Team Leads
  • Oversee the hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development of engineering staff (including managers and senior ICs)
  • Foster a high-performing, collaborative, innovative, and inclusive engineering culture
  • Build and maintain team morale, engagement, and retention
  • Oversee the planning, execution, and timely delivery of complex software projects across multiple teams
  • Ensure teams adhere to best practices (coding standards, code reviews, testing, CI/CD)
  • Track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to delivery velocity, quality, and system health
  • Establish, optimise, and standardize engineering processes (SDLC, Agile/Scrum/Kanban, release management, incident response)
  • Drive continuous improvement in engineering efficiency, productivity, and quality
  • Implement and monitor metrics to measure team and organisational performance
  • Partner closely with Product Management, Design, Data Science, Security
  • Collaborate with senior leadership (Sr. Directors, other Directors, Executives) on strategic initiatives and company-wide goals
  • Represent the engineering organization in cross-functional meetings and strategic discussions
  • Growing your team through coaching, mentoring
  • Forecast hiring needs and participate in recruitment strategy

Requirements

  • 15+ years of professional experience that includes individual contributor, tech leadership and management
  • 6+ yrs recent experience in Leadership roles
  • Experience in working on 1 -> 10 -> 100 product growth
  • Multi-year experience in leading technical teams in software engineering with a platform mindset
  • Multi-year experience with highly-scalable and highly-available systems
  • Ability to oversee multiple technologically complex project deliveries in parallel
  • Up-to-date knowledge of the latest trends in web application development, including the AWS/GCP ecosystem
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to negotiate and work with cross functional leaders across India and USA
  • Deep understanding of SDLC with agile practices
  • Strong business acumen
  • Thinks and acts strategically for the benefit of the business
  • Humility, approachability and a learning mindset
  • Experience with conversational and AI & LLM technologies

Benefits

  • Equal Opportunity Employer
  • Supportive workplace culture
  • Inclusive environment where everyone belongs and can thrive

Job title

Director, Engineering

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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