Sr. Director of Software Engineering

bamboohr17; Stati Uniti; Ibrido; USD 180.000 - 280.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

bamboohr17 is seeking a senior engineering leader to own and unify the employee-journey technology stack—from hiring and onboarding to performance, compensation, benefits, learning, and recognition. The role requires setting a high technical bar for security, reliability, and product quality in an AI-native environment.

You will drive cross-functional alignment, mentor a leadership team of managers and senior engineers, and guide AI-native product development across multiple SaaS teams while

Competenze

• 15+ years of software development and engineering leadership experience.
• 5+ years in Director-level or comparable leader-of-leaders role.
• Ability to identify ambiguous, high-importance problems and deliver measurable outcomes across organizational boundaries.
• Fluency using AI in leadership work, with experience guiding engineering teams through an agentic transformation.
• Strong cross-functional and executive communication skills.

Mansioni

• Own engineering outcomes for the employee journey across multiple teams, identifying the highest-leverage problems and driving them to resolution.
• Align Product, Technology, Customer Experience, and go-to-market leaders around a unified employee-journey strategy, communicating tradeoffs and risks clearly.
• Lead AI-native product development across the portfolio, translating customer problems into applied-AI experiences with measurable value.
• Transform how engineering teams build by establishing agentic practices that improve speed, quality, and learning.
• Turn strategy into execution through operating mechanisms, risk surfacing, cross-team dependency resolution, and follow-through on outcomes.
• Build and develop a results-oriented leadership team of engineering managers and senior technical leaders with succession depth.
• Set technical standards for architecture, quality, reliability, security, privacy, and overall technical health.
• Make the tradeoffs required to modernize the platform while continuing to ship reliably.

Conoscenze

Engineering leadership

AI leadership

Cross-functional comms

Executive communication

Architecture depth

Product judgment

Delivery discipline

Formazione

Bachelor's in CS or related

Descrizione del lavoro

Role overview

A senior engineering leadership role owning engineering across a full employee-journey portfolio, from hiring and onboarding through performance, compensation, benefits, learning, and recognition. The position turns that portfolio into a coherent, AI-native experience while setting the technical bar for security, reliability, and product quality.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering outcomes for the employee journey across multiple teams, identifying the highest-leverage problems and driving them to resolution
• Align Product, Technology, Customer Experience, and go-to-market leaders around a unified employee-journey strategy, communicating tradeoffs and risks clearly
• Lead AI-native product development across the portfolio, translating customer problems into applied-AI experiences with measurable value
• Transform how engineering teams build by establishing agentic practices that improve speed, quality, and learning
• Turn strategy into execution through operating mechanisms, risk surfacing, cross-team dependency resolution, and follow-through on outcomes
• Build and develop a results-oriented leadership team of engineering managers and senior technical leaders with succession depth
• Set technical standards for architecture, quality, reliability, security, privacy, and overall technical health
• Make the tradeoffs required to modernize the platform while continuing to ship reliably

Requirements

• 15+ years of software development and engineering leadership experience
• 5+ years in a Director-level or comparable leader-of-leaders role across multiple SaaS product teams
• Demonstrated ability to identify ambiguous, high-importance problems and deliver measurable outcomes across organizational boundaries
• Strong product and business judgment, including the ability to work backward from customer outcomes and decide what not to pursue
• Fluency using AI in leadership work, with experience guiding engineering teams through an agentic transformation
• Experience leading AI-native products from problem selection through production
• Strong execution discipline, including setting priorities, owners, metrics, and operating mechanisms
• Track record developing engineering managers and senior technical leaders while building leadership depth
• Architectural depth and experience modernizing secure, reliable SaaS systems at scale
• Strong cross-functional and executive communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Experience in HR technology or adjacent employee-experience domains, especially benefits administration or payroll
• Experience unifying fragmented product areas into a coherent customer journey
• Experience building SaaS products for small and medium-sized businesses

Benefits and work setup

• Utah-based hybrid position requiring regular in-office days each week
• Employment contingent on passing both a background and credit check
• Reasonable accommodations available throughout the hiring process