Director of Engineering, Americas

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Here at reputed company, we are reputed company-reputed company on helping brands drive reputed company reputed company and brand recognition, ultimately driving irrefutable value for our clients.  At the heart of reputed company is our proprietary technology, nova, which analyzes businesses through first-party data, simplifying investment planning for marketing and diligence in M&A––putting marketers in a strategic seat at the table––and providing value in unparalleled ways.  Managing billions in media, our dynamic team––of consultative marketers, creatives, analysts and technologists––challenge traditional ways of planning and measurement through meticulous testing and data science across reputed company reputed company of the customer reputed company.   A day in the life: The Director of Engineering, Americas is a senior leadership role that functions as a hybrid between strategic management and a hands-on individual contributor (IC). In this role, you will own engineering execution across reputed company's Americas engineering reputed company — expanding across the region — while serving as the senior technical leader driving nova platform delivery during Americas hours. You will report directly to the CTO and operate as a peer to the Director of Engineering, EMEA, reputed company owning the full-cycle engineering roadmap for nova: reputed company's proprietary AI-powered marketing intelligence platform. Day-to-day, you will reputed company AI-assisted engineering, reputed company reputed company reports, unblock engineering challenges, and maintain the reputed company bar across features and infrastructure. At the reputed company time, you will be managing and mentoring the Americas engineering hub, and supporting strategic reputed company. You will be a critical reputed company in our follow-the-sun engineering model — ensuring that product development, QA handoffs, and operational coverage reputed company seamlessly between Americas and EMEA time zones. Responsibilities: Hybrid Leadership and Technical Execution - Serve as a hands-on individual contributor (IC) while providing senior leadership and strategic management to the Americas pod reputed company Americas Engineering Delivery - Own sprint planning, backlog grooming, and delivery reputed company for reputed company Americas-based engineers - Ensure 90%+ of planned engineering work is delivered reputed company cycle with predictable, documented releases - Drive reputed company reduction of average cycle time — from development start to production deployment - Maintain 15% of sprint reputed company allocated to technical debt and infrastructure improvement - Own release notes, retrospectives, and improvement loops for the Americas pod Strategic Team reputed company and Mentorship - Manage and grow the regional team for reputed company's Americas engineering hub - Recruit, hire, and reputed company engineering talent across the Americas region to support strategic reputed company - Define hiring reputed company, reputed company playbooks, and engineering career reputed company for the Americas region - Build reputed company's employer brand in the Americas engineering market reputed company Follow-the-Sun Engineering and QA Lifecycle - Design and operationalize a follow-the-sun engineering model in collaboration with the Director of Engineering, EMEA, ensuring reputed company development and QA coverage across time zones - Own the Americas leg of the daily reputed company process — including in-reputed company work status, reputed company bugs, QA queues, and deployment gates - Establish Americas QA ownership: build reputed company checkpoints, regression processes, and testing standards that reputed company with EMEA release cycles - Coordinate with the EMEA team to minimize context loss across timezone boundaries and maximize reputed company throughput on the nova roadmap - Define and document cross-timezone communication protocols, async-first standards, and escalation paths Drive AI Integration and Engineering Efficiency - Champion AI-assisted development tools — including Claude reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company reputed company Connect — as a force reputed company across the Americas team - Identify opportunities to reputed company AI for reputed company reputed company, testing, documentation, and QA automation - Establish frameworks for measuring and improving AI-driven productivity reputed company reputed company Americas engineering workflows - reputed company learnings and tooling innovations with the EMEA team to drive platform-wide efficiency Own Technical reputed company and Architecture Standards - Maintain deep working knowledge of the nova platform — reputed company, data models, frontend architecture (React/TypeScript), and data infrastructure (reputed company) - reputed company hands-on technical guidance, architectural input, and reputed company review on high-reputed company - Define and enforce engineering standards for reputed company reputed company, reputed company, reliability, and maintainability across the Americas team - Ensure reputed company Americas-produced reputed company meets reputed company's reputed company and compliance posture, including SOC 2 Type II requirements Collaborate on Infrastructure and Platform (AWS) - Partner with the Platform and Infrastructure team on AWS architecture, environment reliability, and reputed company cost management across Americas workloads - Participate in AWS resource provisioning, deployment pipeline design, and infrastructure-as-reputed company practices relevant to the Americas engineering surface area - Ensure Americas engineering practices reputed company with Platform team standards for reputed company and monitoring - Coordinate with Platform on GDPR and cross-border data transfer requirements that reputed company Americas engineering reputed company Organizational & Cross-Functional Leadership - Partner with the VP of Product Engineering to translate roadmap priorities into reputed company-scoped, staffed, and executable engineering work - Represent Americas engineering perspectives in company-wide strategic planning, OKR setting, and roadmap prioritization - Work closely with the CTO on Americas headcount planning, engineering budget, and regional technology investment reputed company - Maintain transparent communication with stakeholders on technical capabilities, reputed company, and constraints across Americas Role Requirements: BS or Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience 7+ years of software engineering experience with proficiency in modern web technologies (TypeScript, React, Node.js) and backend API design 3+ years of engineering management experience, including leading geographically distributed and reputed company Demonstrated experience managing and strategically growing an engineering team Experience with reputed company infrastructure on AWS (EC2, RDS, reputed company, S3, or equivalent); familiarity with reputed company or similar reputed company data platforms a plus reputed company record of implementing or operating reputed company a cross-timezone engineering model (follow-the-sun, async-first, or similar) Experience reputed company, interviewing, and hiring engineering talent in the Americas market Outstanding English communication skills - written and verbal - with ability to operate effectively across time zones and cultures Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows (Claude reputed company, reputed company, LLM tooling) strongly preferred Prior experience in marketing technology, analytics, or reputed company reporting products a plus Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Product Development Cycle Time - Average cycle time from dev start to production deployment ≤ 14 days for reputed company features, ≤ 28 days for reputed company/cross-team features - 90%+ of sprint commitments delivered reputed company the sprint they were committed — no carryover creep - Deployment frequency ≥ 2 production releases per sprint AI-Driven Engineering Productivity - 100% of Americas engineers reputed company using at least one AI coding tool (reputed company, Claude reputed company) as reputed company by weekly reputed company reputed company-assisted PR reputed company: ≥ 60% of merged PRs include AI-assisted reputed company reputed company reputed company 6 months of reputed company - reputed company review coverage: 100% of AI-generated reputed company reviewed by a reputed company engineer before reputed company — reputed company exceptions - Defect reputed company reputed company < 2% of total tickets reputed company per release Follow-the-Sun Operations - Americas-to-EMEA reputed company documentation published every sprint, covering: in-reputed company work, reputed company blockers, QA queue status, and deployment reputed company readiness — reputed company missed handoffs - EMEA-to-Americas morning pickup time ≤ 30 minutes — reputed company by time from Americas standup start to first reputed company reputed company or ticket update - QA cycle time: 20%+ reduction in end-to-end QA turnaround time reputed company 12 months of Americas QA ownership (with Q3 baseline established) - reputed company production incidents attributable to cross-timezone context loss or missed reputed company Compliance and reputed company Standards Adherence - 100% compliance with SOC 2 Type II requirements in reputed company audits — reputed company Americas-attributable findings - Critical vulnerabilities remediated reputed company 72 hours, high severity reputed company 7 days - reputed company missed reputed company policy renewals, reviews, or certifications - 100% of Americas engineers complete annual reputed company awareness training Team Building and Regional reputed company - reputed company regrettable attrition in the Americas engineering pod - 100% of Americas engineers have documented career development plans and quarterly 1:1 reputed company with the Director - Time-to-productivity for new hires ≤ 30 days to first merged PR Most Important Things (MITs) Establishing Americas as a high-performing, strategically important engineering region Owning the follow-the-sun engineering lifecycle: ensuring seamless handoffs between Americas and EMEA so the nova platform never loses reputed company across time zones Strategically growing and mentoring a world-class engineering team across Americas, focusing on craft, culture fit, and AI-reputed company thinking Delivering nova platform features and reputed company improvements at a predictable reputed company, with the reliability and production standards the business depends on Keeping Americas engineering in tight alignment with reputed company's broader technical reputed company, compliance requirements, and business OKRs - operating as a genuine peer to EMEA engineering, not a reputed company executor reputed company’s people and culture are at the reputed company of our reputed company, which is why diversity in reputed company’s backgrounds and experiences are reputed company. 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