Senior Director, Technology
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Senior Director of Technology at Embark leading engineering teams through AI transformation. Responsible for building high-performing organizations and delivering innovative pet care solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering organization across software engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, and scientific/genomic science pipelines.
- Build a high-accountability, high-performance culture grounded in ownership, execution excellence, continuous learning, and customer impact.
- Recruit, coach, and develop engineering leaders and high-potential talent.
- Establish clear operating mechanisms, engineering standards, and scalable ways of working across teams.
- Drive organizational health, engagement, and retention within the technology organization.
- Define and execute the company's technology strategy in partnership with the Chief Product Officer.
- Ensure architecture decisions support scalability, reliability, security, and long-term business objectives.
- Balance technical debt reduction with product innovation and business priorities.
- Establish engineering roadmaps that align with company strategy and product goals.
- Lead Embark’s engineering strategy for AI-enabled product development, internal workflows, and software development practices.
- Partner with Product, Science, and Data teams to identify opportunities where AI and machine learning can create differentiated customer experiences and operational efficiencies.
- Serve as a strategic partner to Product leadership in translating vision into scalable technical execution.
- Improve planning, prioritization, estimation, and execution practices across teams.
- Drive clarity around technical tradeoffs, dependencies, and resource allocation.
- Define and track key engineering metrics, including delivery effectiveness, reliability, quality, and developer productivity.
- Contribute to broader company strategy, planning, and organizational decision-making.
- Communicate technology strategy and progress effectively to cross-functional stakeholders.
Requirements:
- 8-10+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience.
- Experience leading senior engineering leaders across multiple teams.
- Experience owning engineering strategy and execution for consumer-facing digital products.
- Deep understanding of modern software architecture, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and software development lifecycle practices.
- Experience driving cross-functional initiatives spanning product, engineering, data, and business teams.
- Strong understanding of data platforms, analytics ecosystems, and AI/ML applications.
- Experience establishing engineering operating models, organizational design, and scalable development processes.
Benefits:
- Flexible vacation policy – take the time you need, when you need it.
- Paid parental leave – plus paw-ternity leave for new pet parents!
- Every other Friday off in the summer – enjoy those long weekends.
- Subsidized pet insurance – because our pets are family.
- Big-company benefits with a startup feel – including a 401k match, semi-annual bonus, commuter benefits, and premium healthcare.
- Competitive salaries and stock options – be an owner in what we’re building.
- New MacBook Pros or Windows devices – the tools you need to succeed.
- Continuing education support – conferences, learning resources, and career growth opportunities.
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