Robots and Pencils - Director of Engineering

• 10+ years of overall engineering experience, including at least 3 years in an Engineering Manager or Director role leading multi-person technical teams, with a hands-on background building software and leading projects earlier in your career. • Strong people leadership, coaching, and talent development skills, with a track record of building high-performing teams. • Working understanding of modern software development, cloud platforms, and AI-assisted engineering practices. • Extremely strong AI and agentic development skills — not just familiarity but the ability to teach others, set standards, and create measurable impact at the client level using tools like Claude, Cursor, and other AI-forward platforms. • Experience managing distributed or geographically dispersed teams and aligning capacity with shifting demand. • Fluency with engineering metrics and data-informed delivery management. • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills. • Consulting mindset, whether through direct experience at a firm or in a role servicing external clients or internal business units — you understand how to earn trust, manage expectations, and deliver value in client-facing contexts. • Strong focus on team and talent development, with a demonstrated ability to grow engineers into leaders and build high-trust, high-performance teams over time. • AI-forward thinker who stays ahead of the curve, brings genuine enthusiasm for what’s possible, and can translate that into practical outcomes for clients and the team. • Strategic thinker with a bias for action — you can set direction, build a plan, and then roll up your sleeves to make it happen without waiting for perfect conditions. • Practical hands-on skills in leading the design and delivery of AI/ML systems, including agentic architectures, LLM integration, and production deployment on modern cloud platforms. • Success Measures • Success Measures • Talent engagement, retention, and growth of technical talent • Regional P&L performance, including revenue contribution, margin health, and cost efficiency of the engineering organization • Quality and speed of engineering hiring, including interviewing throughput and calibration consistency for senior technical roles • Delivery quality, velocity, and client satisfaction • Adoption and effective use of AI-forward tools and AI-assisted delivery across the team • Resource utilization and staffing effectiveness against demand • Career progression and leadership development of team members • Regional engineering capacity, capability maturity, and readiness • You’ll Do Well Here if You Are • A doer. You see something broken and fix it. You'd rather move on clarity than wait for certainty. • A doer. • A fast learner who knows you don't know everything. The AI landscape changes weekly. You're senior enough to know better and curious enough to keep learning anyway. • A fast learner who knows you don't know everything. • Direct in a way that makes the work better. You give honest feedback. You'd rather have the hard conversation than blow smoke. • Direct in a way that makes the work better. • Obsessed with craft. You know genius is in the details. You ship exceptional, not perfect, and you don't put your name on work you wouldn't stand behind. • Obsessed with craft. • Built for ownership. You honor commitments, admit mistakes fast, and back your teammates when a decision costs something. No handoffs, no finger-pointing. • Built for ownership. • All in. You treat clients' businesses like your own. You take the work seriously without taking yourself seriously. • All in. • Resourceful when the budget, timeline, or team is tight. Constraints don't slow you down. They sharpen you. • Resourceful when the budget, timeline, or team is tight. • Glad to be in the room with people who care as much as you do. Our teams average fifteen-plus years of experience. We hire people who push each other to do better work. • Glad to be in the room with people who care as much as you do.