Director of Product Engineering (Hybrid)

The posting, as Weedmaps wrote it

Director of Product Engineering (Hybrid - 3 days onsite per week)

Overview

The Director of Product Engineering is an executive technology leader responsible for defining and executing the long-term engineering strategy in alignment with the company's business objectives. This role oversees multiple engineering organizations through engineering managers, ensuring scalable execution of the product and platform roadmap while driving operational excellence, innovation, and organizational effectiveness.

The Director partners closely with executive leadership to shape technology investments, organizational design, workforce planning, and engineering strategy. This leader is accountable for engineering performance across multiple domains, organizational health, delivery predictability, engineering quality, financial stewardship, and leadership development while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

The impact you'll make

• Develop and execute the long-term engineering strategy aligned with the company's vision and business objectives.
• Partner with the CTO and executive leadership to define technology investments, organizational priorities, and strategic initiatives.
• Lead organizational planning across multiple engineering functions to ensure alignment of resources with business needs.
• Establish engineering governance, operating rhythms, and decision-making frameworks that improve execution and accountability.
• Present engineering strategy, organizational health, investment recommendations, and business outcomes to executive leadership and stakeholders.
• Champion innovation by identifying emerging technologies, AI capabilities, and engineering best practices that create competitive advantage.
• Recruit, hire, develop, and retain exceptional engineering leadership and technical talent.
• Lead, coach, and mentor Engineering Managers, and senior technical leaders across multiple engineering organizations.
• Align organizational objectives with leadership development, succession planning, and workforce strategy.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, inclusion, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Build scalable leadership pipelines that strengthen organizational capability and long-term succession.
• Lead organizational design, restructures, and workforce planning initiatives to support company growth.
• Conduct skip-level meetings to strengthen employee engagement and organizational effectiveness.
• Partner with People, Finance, and executive leadership on organizational planning and talent strategy.
• Establish enterprise engineering standards, architectural governance, and technical investment priorities across the organization.
• Provide executive technical leadership for the Weedmaps technology ecosystem.
• Drive modernization initiatives that improve platform scalability, reliability, security, performance, and developer productivity.
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