Hybrid Software Engineering Director

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About the role

  • Director of Software Engineering leading delivery and execution for a SaaS company. Drive engineering outcomes and collaborate across teams to deliver customer value and product quality.

Responsibilities

  • Translate strategy into clear execution plans and drive predictable delivery across multiple teams
  • Establish strong planning and delivery rhythms, manage dependencies, and surface risks early with clear options and trade-offs
  • Keep delivery outcome-driven: customer value, product quality, reliability, and business impact
  • Scale leaders and teams Lead through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, coaching them to higher impact
  • Hire and develop talent; build healthy, accountable, outcome-focused teams
  • Strengthen collaboration across Engineering, Product, Design, and Data
  • Use AI to improve delivery and execution (expected)

Requirements

  • Senior engineering leadership experience in a scaling SaaS environment (preferably leading leaders)
  • A strong track record delivering customer-facing product outcomes across multiple teams (not just shipping output)
  • Proven ability to run execution across the full product development lifecycle: discovery-to-delivery, engineering planning, delivery governance, release, and learn/iterate
  • Strong technical credibility: hands-on history delivering complex SaaS capabilities (features, workflows, services, and integrations), with sound architectural judgment and operational awareness
  • Demonstrated ability to improve product development systems: predictability, cycle time, quality, and engineering effectiveness
  • Excellent cross-functional leadership with Product/Design/Data—able to align priorities, manage dependencies, and drive clear decisions and trade-offs
  • Demonstrable experience using AI to improve engineering delivery/execution (examples + outcomes), with a responsible approach to security, privacy, and correctness
  • Executive-level communication - You will provide crisp, trustworthy updates to senior leadership on delivery health, risks, and decision points

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Up to 30 days vacation
  • Pension/Retirement matching
  • Health plans and wellbeing programs
  • Give Back program
  • Educational resources and generous development allowance
  • Inclusive policies including maternity, paternity and parent leave
  • Recognition programs
  • Employee Share Options (ESOP)

Job title

Software Engineering Director

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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