Senior Director, Engineering (HR Tech)

TL;DR

Senior Director, Engineering (HR Tech): Own the Essentials pay equity and analytics platform, managing multiple engineering teams across Data Hub and product surfaces with an accent on keeping it sharp, fast, reliable, and modernized for AI-native future. Focus on driving platform modernization, AI-augmented engineering practices, end-to-end roadmap delivery, and cross-functional partnerships to improve customer outcomes.

Location: Remote Home Office - United States

Salary: $238,000-$280,000 per year

Company

Series C technology company using AI for pay equity analytics and compensation solutions serving enterprise customers worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead multiple engineering teams on Essentials platform including Data Hub for HR and compensation data ingestion.
• Own roadmap, delivery cadence, and quality partnering with product, GTM, and customer success.
• Drive AI-augmented practices, agent-friendly architecture, and platform modernization.
• Reduce time-to-value and friction for customers, making the platform stickier.
• Build and grow high-performing teams through hiring, leveling, and development.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with peer leaders to align workstreams.

Requirements

• Must be eligible to work in the United States
• Owned multi-team customer-facing engineering org at scale in B2B SaaS for enterprises.
• Proven track record of shipping products repeatedly while improving.
• Systems thinking focused on outcomes, roadmaps, budgets, and customer needs.
• AI-native operator with hands-on use of modern AI tooling in engineering.
• Strong partnership with product and GTM for predictable delivery.
• Direct, candid communication style with bias to action and learning.

Nice to have

• Experience in HR tech, compensation, HRIS integrations, or pay analytics.
• Background scaling data-heavy platforms with ingestion and multi-tenant modeling.
• Led re-platforming or AI-native rebuilds of established products.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with geo-neutral pay in US, equity, and 401(k).
• Flexible vacation, paid sick/safe time, compassion leave, voting leave, and paid parental leave.
• Medical, dental, vision (90% employee premiums paid, 50% dependents), life insurance, disability fully covered.
• Fully remote model.
• Culture of candor, curiosity, community, and inclusivity.

Hiring process

• 30 min with Talent Team.
• 45 min with Hiring Manager.
• 2.5 hours with team members.
• 1 hour final with CTO.