Senior Director, Engineering - ICM

Role overview Lead the engineering organization for an incentive compensation product used to calculate and manage employee payouts. Set its technical and product direction, including how AI can improve planning and payout workflows while preserving accuracy, reliability, and customer trust. The role combines multi-team leadership, product strategy, and organizational development.

Responsibilities - Define engineering strategy in line with customer needs, product priorities, and longer-term platform direction. - Identify valuable product opportunities and guide considered adoption of AI in customer workflows. - Lead, recruit, and develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders across multiple teams. - Shape team structures and practices as the product and organization mature; build a culture of ownership and continuous improvement. - Guide architecture and delivery decisions that balance speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability. - Align Engineering with Product, Design, and go-to-market partners; set clear priorities and quality expectations.

Requirements - 15+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 6 years leading managers and multi-team organizations. - Demonstrated success building and scaling high-performing engineering teams. - Experience owning products end to end and scaling existing systems. - Strong technical judgment to assess architecture, identify risks, challenge assumptions, and raise quality without needing to write production code. - Clear communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience working with executive leaders. - Ability to balance delivery pace with correctness, reliability, and data integrity in consequential systems.

Nice to have - Background in enterprise B2B software, finance, compensation systems, or another field where calculations and auditability are critical.

Benefits and work setup - Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees, with partial dependent coverage; flexible time off and quarterly mental health days. - Professional development and caregiving stipends, anniversary bonuses, retirement savings plan for US employees, and Apple hardware. - The role includes participation in an after-hours on-call rotation for critical issues.