Engineering Leadership

Rozgoo; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Mixpanel seeks a Director of Engineering reporting to the CTO to own all Product Engineering. You will manage the core analytics experience, growth infrastructure, and platform capabilities, ensuring reliable delivery and scalable architecture.

You will lead multiple teams, hire and coach engineers, and align technical direction with product and design to deliver high-quality AI-powered analytics at scale.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience building and scaling engineering teams.
• Strong track record hiring, coaching, and retaining top engineers.
• Experience delivering AI-powered analytics products at scale.
• Ability to set technical vision and drive execution across orgs.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration with product and design.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams across different product areas with high execution standards.
• Build an AI-first product analytics platform for next-generation software.
• Hire well, coach deeply, and foster ownership and pride in what is shipped.
• Shape direction with Product and Design, turning ideas into focused, quality work.
• Set the technical bar, empower tech leads, and protect system health.
• Identify strategies that create real value for customers and the business.

Skills

Leadership

People management

AI-driven analytics

Technical direction

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit mixpanel.com to learn more.

About Mixpanel Engineering

Mixpanel Engineering is a small, fast-moving team focused on delivering real value to customers. We build powerful AI-powered product analytics while obsessing over clarity, simplicity, and delight. Product innovation drives our business, and product engineering teams own that responsibility.

The Product Engineering org is responsible for building our core product that delivers insights to customers. These teams are defining the next phase of our AI-led product experiences and are uniquely positioned to build the next generation of AI-first products. We build the tools product managers rely on to understand users, protect revenue, and scale companies. As we move toward IPO, our work evolves from showing what happened to explaining why. This shift unlocks deeper insight, better decisions, and the next generation of analytics.

About the Role

The Director of Engineering, reporting directly to the CTO, will be responsible for all of Product Engineering. You'll own the core analysis experience that product managers and engineers rely on daily, the growth infrastructure that brings new builders into the product and keeps them there, and the platform capabilities that let teams test and ship with confidence. Success is measured by revenue and retention.

What You'll Do

• Lead multiple engineering teams across different product areas. This role is for someone who develops people seriously and holds a high bar for execution.
• Build an AI first product analytics for the next generation of software
• Hire well, coach deeply, and build a culture where engineers feel ownership and pride in what they ship.
• Shape direction alongside Product and Design, turning big ideas into focused execution without losing quality.
• Set the technical bar. Empower tech leads with clarity and trust, and protect the systems your teams own.
• Identify and deliver strategies that create real value for customers and the business.