Senior Director of Engineering & AI-Driven Delivery

Lifetouch; Eden Prairie (MN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifetouch, part of the Shutterfly family, seeks a Senior Director of Engineering in Eden Prairie, MN, onsite to lead software development, quality engineering, and the operating model for fast, reliable delivery.

You will guide customer-facing and internal platforms, mentor managers, and drive Agile practices, automation, and AI-enabled development while aligning roadmaps with business goals through partner collaboration.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading managers and multi-team engineering organizations.
• Experience leading organizations of 50+ engineers.
• Experience leading offshore teams (India preferred).

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams supporting customer-facing products, business applications, integrations, shared services, and platform operations.
• Build, develop, and mentor engineering managers, technical leaders, and senior engineers while driving succession planning and career development.
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, inclusion, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Align organizational structure, skills, capacity, and partner resources with business priorities.
• Communicate commitments, risks, tradeoffs, and outcomes to executive leadership while building high-performing teams.
• Own engineering KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards focused on quality, throughput, predictability, reliability, and business outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

People management

Strategic planning

Communication to executives

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Observability

Automation testing

Offshore partner management

Job description

Lifetouch, part of the Shutterfly family, seeks a Senior Director of Engineering in Eden Prairie, MN, onsite to lead software development, quality engineering, and the operating model for fast, reliable delivery.

You will guide customer-facing and internal platforms, mentor managers, and drive Agile practices, automation, and AI-enabled development while aligning roadmaps with business goals through partner collaboration.