Hybrid Director of Engineering Productivity

at Gravitee

• Job title: Director of Engineering Productivity
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Director of Builder Experience leading a team to build AI-augmented tooling for developers. Overseeing strategy, architecture, and integration of advanced AI capabilities into system workflows.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Management
• Build the Squad: scale a high-performing team of Developer Experience and Platform Engineers.
• Mentorship: Foster a culture of technical excellence and user empathy, ensuring your team view internal Product Managers and Developers as their primary customers.
• Resource Planning: Balance the roadmap between long-term R&D (e.g., experimenting with new LLM agents) and immediate tactical fixes that unblock the engineering organisation.
• Strategy & Vision: Define the roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with a "Zero-Friction" mindset.
• Drive the adoption of AI-native workflows by bridging the gap between cutting-edge LLM capabilities and the operational realities of a high-speed development environment.
• Platform Architecture & Context Engineering: Lead the technical implementation of the platform. This involves integrating LLMs into our version control, issue tracking (Jira/Linear), and documentation tools.
• Own Context Management: Ensure our internal AI tools have the right context (codebase knowledge, historical PRDs, architecture decision records) to provide accurate, hallucination-free assistance.
• Workflow Acceleration For Product: Build tools that ingest user feedback and assist in drafting rigorous Product Requirement Documents (PRDs).
• For Engineering: Integrate coding assistants that go beyond autocomplete, enabling entire scaffolding generation based on the PRDs created in the previous step.
• Metrics & Reporting: Define and track the "Physics of Gravitee": Speed, Velocity, and Quality. Report on AI Adoption: usage rates of internal tools, acceptance rates of AI-generated code/specs. Report on Productivity: DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes) and "Time-to-Spec." Your impact will be visible, measurable, and global.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams (DevEx, Platform, or Tooling teams preferred).
• You have a track record of hiring great talent and helping them grow.
• 7+ years in software engineering with a recent, deep focus on Generative AI and LLMs.
• You understand that "building" involves writing specs just as much as writing code.
• You have empathy for Product Managers and Designers.
• Deep understanding of the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
• Familiarity with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Vector Databases, and Context Engineering.
• Data-Driven: You don't guess; you measure. You are comfortable defining KPIs and presenting them to executive leadership.

Benefits

• Competitive medical coverage
• Pension / 401k program options
• Stock options - you build it, you own it
• 25 days holiday + in-country national holidays
• 3 mental health days + wellness allowance
• Your birthday off 🎉
• Professional development budget to fuel your growth
• Hybrid work culture with hubs across regions
• Quarterly team events + annual offsite at an exciting location
• A meaningful, progressive, global company culture that is as fun as it is hardworking
• Endless growth opportunities