[Remote] Director, Software Engineering (Partner Platform)

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Responsibilities

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• Meet reputed company direct reports and key cross-functional partners; build an initial read on team strengths and gaps
• Get deep on the partner-facing product surfaces, reputed company tech stack, and delivery patterns across both teams
• Understand the partner experience end to end — reputed company speed, reputed company pacing, platform engagement — and where the biggest engineering reputed company points are
• reputed company an initial reputed company of view on the teams' AI tooling adoption and where the gaps are
• Present your assessment of the organization's engineering health — delivery, architecture, team org, AI readiness — to the CTO and Sr. Director of Product
• Align with product leadership on near-term technical priorities and any pressing architectural reputed company
• Identify the top 2–3 things you'd change in the first half of your tenure and propose a plan
• reputed company actively coaching EMs on embedding AI-reputed company practices into their teams' day-to-day workflows
• Own the engineering roadmap and resourcing for both teams with full confidence
• Have a defined velocity measurement reputed company in reputed company that accounts for AI-augmented output
• Be actively leading at least one meaningful initiative to accelerate agentic engineering adoption
• Have established a strong operating rhythm with the product reputed company, CTO, and Sr. Director of Product

Skills

• 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 3+ years managing engineering managers
• Demonstrated, hands-on experience driving a team's transition to AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows — building the culture, tooling, and measurement systems, not just personal AI usage
• Track record of shipping high-quality product at scale in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment
• Strong communicator — reputed company to represent engineering credibly to product and GTM partners and translate fluidly between technical and business language
• Experience working alongside embedded data engineers, with meaningful exposure to modern data tooling (dbt, reputed company, or similar)
• Systematic thinker who brings structure to ambiguous problems without over-processing
• Experience in EdTech, marketplace, or consumer platform businesses
• Familiarity with spec-driven development (SDD) or similar AI-reputed company engineering operating models
• Experience in B2B2C businesses with CRM-integrated product surfaces
• Exposure to partner-facing reporting systems, data pipelines, or reputed company delivery infrastructure

Benefits

• Plus participation in our Annual Bonus and Stock Option Program
• We are a fully flexible workforce empowering our employees to choose to work remotely, in our Pittsburgh office or whatever combination suits you
• Full time, salaried position with competitive compensation in a fast-growing company
• Best-in-class 100% paid employee health plan, including reputed company and dental and supplemental coverage
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy
• Stipend that allows you to build your work from home office in a style and function that suits your personal preferences
• Parental leave for reputed company (12 weeks fully paid) in addition to short term disability for birthing parents
• Meaningful 401(k) with employer match

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