You're an engineering leader who gets more satisfaction from making twenty teams faster than from shipping one team's feature. You've run a platform, foundations, or developer-productivity organization, and you know its failure modes: the ivory tower nobody adopts, the dumping ground that absorbs every unowned problem, the tooling team that optimizes for novelty instead of adoption. You hold a high bar through data and judgment rather than process, and you're personally fluent in AI-assisted development, with a grounded point of view on where agentic development is taking the discipline. You're comfortable in commercial territory: choosing partners, structuring statements of work, and holding outside teams to an inside standard
3+ years leading engineering organizations as a Director or Senior Engineering Manager, including managing managers
You've led engineering through real scale, growing teams while a business expanded from roughly $100M to $300M in revenue, and you know what has to change in people, process, and architecture along the way
You've led a platform, foundations, or developer-productivity organization whose customers were other engineering teams, and you can show how you measured and grew its impact
You've delivered meaningful work through outside partners: selecting agencies or outsourced teams, managing statements of work, and keeping quality and ownership clean through handoff
You use AI development tools daily and have changed how a team builds software with them
A track record of attracting, developing, and retaining strong engineers and future leaders
Exceptional written and verbal communication: you can make an investment case to executives and a technical case to Staff engineers
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Experience building applications with Ruby on Rails and React
Experience standing up a professional services, field engineering, or partner delivery function inside a product company
Experience treating an internal platform as a product: adoption metrics, internal customer discovery, deprecation management
Familiarity with native mobile development (we ship iOS and Android apps supported by a cross-cutting Mobile chapter)