Our Directors of Engineering lead our powerhouse technology teams while also remaining technically proficient themselves, as they assist in building our customer web applications and software products across a diverse group of industries. Our Education team is looking for a collaborative leader who possesses the ability to partner with the business and technology teams to make decisions that will shape the strategy of our products and services.

What You'll Do:

People Leadership

• Build and align teams through resource planning, team member allocation, and staffing projections
• Foster a highly engaged engineering team culture.
• Accountable for the performance of their leaders, their teams, and the partnership with business stakeholders
• Works closely with other Directors of Engineering to create cross-team bridges

Strategic Leadership

• Focus on technical and business strategy for multiple teams
• Connect the business goal to technical execution through strategic leadership
• Frequently creates and communicates vision and strategy plans for their respective teams
• Responsible for aligning leaders and engineers to support business objectives over the course of one to many quarters.
• Partners closely with business GMs, Product/Marketing Directors, and other functional leaders

Technical Leadership

• Define, implement, and manage business and vertical software development lifecycles
• Defines technical priorities for the team based on impact and is accountable for their execution alongside business deliverables
• Develops standards for software development workflows, including decisions between methodologies, key performance indicators, and team collaboration strategies
• Drive high quality solutions through close partnership with engineers on technical implementation

What We're Looking For:

• Deep expertise in multiple engineering disciplines
• Ability to create and communicate technical vision and gather broad support both internally and with partners
• Focus on leadership development, effective communication, and engagement building
• Understanding when to leverage commercial products, open source, internal tools, or build new when evaluating technical solutions.
• Experience with general software design and architecture so that you can guide teams to the right solutions, while avoiding common pitfalls.
• Experience leading teams or serving as a technical lead within an organization; experience managing remote teams is a plus.
• Self-motivated and creative problem-solvers who love to challenge themselves.
• Personal commitment to being great people to work with and for everyday.

Compensation

• USA Compensation Range: $145,000-260,000*
  
  • Note actual salary is based on geographic location, qualifications, and experience.

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program

What We're Looking For:

Use this section to outline the skills and attributes that are essential to success in this role, in bullet-point format.

• Verbal and written communication skills, collaboration, and teamwork should be highlighted at the top. We consider these core skills, without which no one could succeed at Red Ventures, so to represent their importance in our culture we want to call them out first.

• Ability to successfully fulfill expectations for role in a remote or hybrid environment (if role is remote/hybrid)

• Essential role-specific skills. We recommend keeping this list to 6-10 items to keep it from being overwhelming to the candidate.

• If something is a "nice to have", call that out specifically. For example, "Familiarity with AWS, or willingness to learn, is preferred" instead of just saying "AWS Knowledge".

Who We Are:

Founded in 2000, Red Ventures is a portfolio of growing digital businesses that bring consumers and brands together through integrated e-commerce, strategic partnerships and many proprietary brands including Bankrate, AllConnect.com and Reviews.com. Headquartered south of Charlotte, NC, Red Ventures has over 3000 employees in offices across the US, as well as London and Sao Paulo. For more information, visit https://redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on social platforms.

We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits program for full-time employees, including medical, dental and vision coverage, paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program, 401(k) plan and a paid parental leave program.

Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. This includes providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the job application or interview process, please contact accommodation@redventures.com.

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