Why this role

Evolve is the largest tech-enabled, asset-light provider of vacation rental management services in North America and we’re looking for a Senior Director, Engineering to lead our growing Software Development organization focused on building customer experiences (includes Guest, Owner, Partner, Evolver; excludes Platform initiatives) and ambitious technology roadmap. Reporting to our VP of Engineering, you’ll partner cross-functionally to ensure that our long-term technology strategy and roadmap are well aligned with the company's vision and growth plans. This will require a leader to identify and excel in areas where we need to be great, while also respectfully saying “no” to lower priority ideas that distract us from achieving our goals. Under your leadership, you will be growing the team quickly and will need to continue to build a culture of accountability and operational excellence, all while having some fun along the way.

What you’ll do

People Leadership

• Create a clear technical vision, strategy, and leadership for our existing and future products, in alignment with the company's vision for our Owner and Guest pillars.
• Increase Evolve's technical capacity and throughput by raising the bar in attracting, hiring, training, developing and retaining strong engineering leaders and teammates with diverse skills and competencies
• Have a strong track in developing leaders throughout the organization to influence everything from recruiting to operational excellence
• Preferred experience in setting up and leading large engineering teams
• Continue to build a great tech team culture that produces results while having some fun along the way

Results Leadership

• Actively collaborate with the leaders in Product Management, Experience Design, Data Science, IT, and other functions outside of technology, such as Marketing, Finance, and Operations, on organizational vision, team structures, headcount planning, and resource planning in support of Evolve's business goals
• Balance investment across the development of new experiences, maintenance of existing experiences, foundational infrastructure, and internal tooling
• Have strong opinions and make high judgment decisions on how to prioritize features, products, and new capabilities

• Quickly assess the effectiveness of system architectures and technology stack, development methodologies, and tools to run an efficient and secure software development organization
• Continuously monitor new technologies and evaluate their potential use
• Design and refactor the right processes to continuously deliver value to our customers (both internally and externally)
• Development, measurement, and management of key metrics for group's performance

We’re excited about you because:

• You have 12 years of software development experience
• You have 8 years of experience building engineering teams from the ground up, leading and supporting 70 engineer organizations through rapid, transformative growth
• You have successfully crafted technology strategies in different setups and at different stages of growth organizations
• You have the technical chops to guide your teams in technology architecture and technical design
• You have the experience in setting up the right mechanisms for scaling teams and products across multiple geographies
• You have a passion and demonstrated experience for cross-functional collaboration with other functions, providing support to organizational planning and execution
• You have championed and supported impactful DEI efforts in an engineering leadership role
• You have a growth mindset, passion for learning, and willingness to change and adapt your own perspective when collaborating with teammates from diverse perspectives and backgrounds
• You have a capacity to learn and understand the effects and impact of your decisions over both short and long timeframes
• You embrace and embody our 10 Core Values

Location

Evolve has a flexible working environment so teammates can work remotely anywhere in the state of Colorado, in our beautiful downtown Denver office, remotely or a hybrid of both! As we grow, we are working towards opening remote opportunities across the entire U.S. We currently are able to hire across the U.S except in the following locations: California, District of Columbia, Hawaii, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania.

Compensation

For this role our base salary range is$192,000 to $221,000, depending on relevant experience. This role will also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on both company and individual performance.

Additional compensation details: 

Equity: 100% of salary equivalent RSUsVariable comp: 10% of salary target

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