Director, Engineering - Enterprise

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Drive the execution of Zapier’s enterprise product vision, enabling adoption and expansion in enterprise organizations.
• - Collaborate with product, design, and go-to-market teams to define and execute the enterprise product roadmap.
• - Work directly with sales and some customers or potential customers to better understand product requirements.
• - Build and scale the systems that enable enterprise-grade functionality and collaborate with engineering and product leaders to influence changes to the Zapier platform and primitives to support enterprise needs.
• - Foster strong partnerships across the organization to align technical execution with customer and business priorities.
• - Advocate for enterprise priorities at all organizational levels, ensuring alignment and support for key initiatives.
• - Ensure engineering excellence by championing best practices in agile development, incident process, bug advocacy, architecture, and system design.
• - Lead talent acquisition and retention efforts, growing a world-class engineering team.
• - Provide process mentoring and guidance for your managers and team members.
• - Monitor team performance and success metrics, using insights to optimize processes and outcomes.

Required Skills

• - Customer-focused with a deep understanding of customer needs.
• - Passion for building products that delight internal and external customers.
• - Experience managing and scaling engineering organizations including platform and product teams.
• - Skilled and experienced engineering leader with a track record of building teams working on SaaS-based products with modern tech stacks.
• - Ability to lead both product and platform teams.
• - Understanding of product development complexities and nuances.
• - Experience in managing complex projects with agile development and industry best practices.
• - Ability to develop and sell a strategy to your team.
• - Skilled mentor, coach, and engineering leader.
• - Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• - Offers Equity
• - Offers Bonus
• - Remote work flexibility
• - Commitment to diversity and inclusion