Senior Director, Growth Technology & Platforms (WIP)

Match Group; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mind & Body benefits

401k with company match

PTO & holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Match Group, a leading global dating product company, seeks a Senior Director, Growth Technology & Platforms to shape and lead MarTech Engineering and Data Foundations. You will drive the strategy and roadmap for Organic Growth, AI-enabled automation, and scalable growth solutions across its brands.

You will lead a ~10-person, multidisciplinary team spanning engineering, data, program management, and growth, unifying capabilities to accelerate business impact and global expansion.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in marketing technology, growth engineering, or platform leadership.
• Led a platform or tech capability with a clear roadmap and business impact.
• Experience making build, buy, and partner decisions with vendors.
• Ability to engage credibly with senior engineers on architecture and platform tradeoffs.
• Experience partnering with Analytics/ML teams to operationalize model outputs.

Responsibilities

• Set growth technology strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities for the function.
• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary team across engineering, data foundations, TPM, and Organic Growth.
• Lead MarTech and Data Foundations to power measurement, activation, and experimentation.
• Develop Organic Growth and AI Discovery capabilities across SEO, ASO, GEO, and AI Search.
• Scale AI-enabled Growth Operations for campaign automation and performance intelligence.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Product, Engineering, Data, Analytics, and AI/ML leaders.

Skills

Growth technology leadership

Platform strategy

Build-buy-partner decisions

Data/ML collaboration

Marketing tech / growth engineering

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Know where you belong!

Match Group is a leading provider of dating products across the globe. Our portfolio includes Tinder, Hinge, Match, Meetic, PlentyOfFish, OkCupid, The League, HER, and others, each designed to spark meaningful connections for singles worldwide. Creating a sense of belonging doesn’t stop at our products - it’s the foundation of every team we hire.

When it comes to dating, the connection starts online, but the real magic happens once you meet in real life (IRL). We think the same is true for creating the best platforms, so we work together IRL 3 days/week.

Marketing is becoming more data-driven, automated, and AI-enabled—and the technology behind it needs to evolve just as quickly. Across Match Group, we have an opportunity to build shared capabilities that help our brands make better decisions, move faster, and scale what works across the portfolio.

Senior Director, Growth Technology & Platforms will lead the team responsible for MarTech Engineering, Marketing Data Foundations, Technical Program Management, and Organic Growth. You’ll set the strategy and roadmap for these capabilities, make clear prioritization and investment decisions, and connect business needs to scalable technology and growth solutions.

You’ll lead and grow a multidisciplinary team of approximately 10 people spanning engineering, data, program management, and organic growth. You’ll bring these disciplines together as one cohesive organization, developing technical leaders and functional experts while building shared capabilities used across a global portfolio of consumer products. As the function’s impact grows, the team and remit have the potential to expand into additional areas of Growth Technology.

Near‑term priorities include strengthening our marketing data and technology foundations to enable better measurement and audience activation; scaling AI‑enabled automation and performance intelligence; advancing creative technology; and expanding experimentation capabilities across the portfolio. You’ll determine how to sequence these investments based on business value, technical readiness, and where shared capabilities can create the greatest leverage.

This role is part of Match Group’s Global Media & Growth organization, supporting Tinder, Match, Hinge, and our broader portfolio of brands.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Growth Technology Strategy & Roadmap: Set the strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities for the function, translating brand and portfolio growth needs into scalable capabilities and measurable impact. Make thoughtful build, buy, and partner decisions that maximize the value of our technology investments.
• Team & Capability Leadership: Lead and grow a multidisciplinary organization spanning engineering, data foundations, technical program management, and Organic Growth. Establish clear ownership, strong operating rhythms, and a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and business impact.
• MarTech & Data Foundations: Lead an integrated platform function to build the shared technology, data, and delivery foundations that power measurement, audiences, activation, experimentation, and creative technology across the portfolio. Establish a scalable operating model that aligns technical capacity to the highest‑value brand and portfolio needs.
• Organic Growth & AI Discovery: Position Match Group for the next era of organic discovery by building a centralized capability across SEO, ASO, GEO, and AI Search. Develop the team, tooling, and playbooks that help brands act on emerging opportunities and scale learning across the portfolio.
• AI‑Powered Growth Operations: Build on our early momentum to scale AI‑enabled capabilities across campaign automation and performance intelligence. Identify and advance human‑in‑the‑loop and agentic solutions that improve how Growth teams plan, execute, and make decisions.
• Cross‑Functional Leadership: Partner with brand and functional leaders across Marketing, Product, Engineering, Data, Analytics, and AI/ML to identify high‑value opportunities and mobilize teams to bring them to life. Build alignment around shared priorities and connect expertise across the organization to accelerate impact.

We Could Be a Match If

• You have 12+ years in marketing technology, growth engineering, or platform leadership, including experience building and leading multidisciplinary teams across engineering, data, program management, product, or growth
• You have led a platform or technology capability with a clear roadmap, prioritization model, and accountability for business impact
• You have experience making build, buy, and partner decisions, including managing technology vendors, to maximize the value of technology investments
• You bring the technical depth to engage credibly with senior engineers, evaluate architecture and platform tradeoffs, and understand how data, identity, audiences, activation, and automation come together in a modern growth ecosystem
• You have experience partnering closely with Analytics, Advanced Data Science, Applied Science, or ML teams, translating their measurement and experimentation needs into technical requirements, and operationalizing model outputs into scalable growth systems and workflows
• You have experience supporting consumer growth or performance marketing ecosystems, including mobile marketing, paid media activation, first‑party signals, and audience infrastructure
• You have experience applying automation, predictive intelligence, or AI‑enabled workflows to marketing or growth use cases
• You can move effectively between executive‑level strategy and operating detail, driving complex initiatives in matrixed organizations and communicating decisions, tradeoffs, and investment recommendations clearly to senior leaders

Nice To Have

• Experience in consumer subscription or multi‑brand portfolio businesses
• Exposure to SEO, ASO, GEO/AI Search, or other Organic Growth capabilities
• Experience with creative technology, personalization, or conversion optimization

Why Match Group?

Benefits

Mind & Body – Medical, mental health, and wellness benefits to support your overall health and well‑being

Financial Wellness – Competitive compensation, 100% employer match on 401k contributions up to 10% (cap at $10,000), as well as an employee stock purchase program to help you feel supported in your financial security

Unplug – Generous PTO and 14 paid holidays so you can unplug

Career – Annual training allowance for professional development and ERG membership opportunities and events so you feel connected and empowered in your work

Family – Families come in all shapes and sizes so we offer 20 weeks of 100% paid parental leave, fertility, adoption, and child care resources, as well as pet insurance and discounts

Company Gatherings – We host company events where our employees get to know each other and build a sense of connection and belonging!

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we value the rich dynamics that diversity brings to our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, age, sexual orientation, sex (including pregnancy and sexual harassment), gender identity or expression, uniformed service or veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic. Period.

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Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered.

This salary range is reflective of San Francisco, CA or Palo Alto, CA.

The salary range for Los Angeles, CA is $240,000 - $280,000.

For all other locations, this salary may be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.