Director, Developer Experience – Hybrid
3 Days in Towson, MD, or New Britain, CT or Charlotte, NC
The Job:
As a Director, Developer Experience (DevEx) you’ll be part of our team working as hybrid employee based in Towson, MD or New Britain, CT or Charlotte, NC. The Director of Developer Experience leads the enterprise approach to improving software delivery through AI-enabled practices and tools across IT. Working with capability teams that retain delivery ownership, this leader evaluates emerging technologies, validates practical applications, and establishes reusable playbooks and standards across the software development lifecycle.
The role owns the AI-powered SDLC tooling portfolio, including vendor relationships, licensing, cost management, and lifecycle decisions. It enables consistent, responsible adoption that improves developer experience, delivery effectiveness, and quality.
- Strategy & Roadmap: Define and lead the developer experience and AI-powered SDLC roadmap, aligned with IT strategy, business priorities, and opportunities identified across capability teams.
- Technology Evaluation & Experimentation: Assess industry developments and existing practices; partner with teams to prototype and validate approaches for fit, usability, integration, implementation effort, risk, cost, and value.
- Playbooks & Standards: Translate proven approaches into reusable playbooks, reference patterns, and shared standards spanning requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and agile delivery practices.
- Tool Portfolio Ownership: Own vendor relationships, licensing, costs, and lifecycle decisions for AI-powered development & SDLC tools; rationalize overlapping capabilities and coordinate with broader platform owners where AI functionality is embedded, limiting ownership to the AI-specific capability and its associated commercial and lifecycle responsibilities.
- Responsible Adoption: Partner with architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, and other control functions to align tools and practices with enterprise requirements, while capability teams retain implementation and delivery accountability.
- Enablement & Change: Build commitment to AI-powered SDLC ways of working by demonstrating value, engaging leaders and practitioners, addressing adoption barriers, and supporting teams through the initial learning curve to sustained use.
- Measurement & Improvement: Measure adoption, developer experience, delivery effectiveness, quality, and value; use findings to refine the roadmap and inform leadership investment decisions.
- Team Leadership: Build and lead a team focused on practical experimentation, shared enablement, tooling ownership, and continuous improvement.
The Person:
You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, developer experience, platform engineering, DevSecOps, or related technology domains, including 5+ years leading teams or enterprise capabilities.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-team adoption of new technologies and ways of working, building stakeholder commitment, overcoming resistance, and delivering measurable improvements.
- Experience evaluating, piloting, and scaling AI-enabled development tools or practices in an enterprise environment.
- Experience owning or managing enterprise technology tools or portfolios, including vendor relationships, licensing, costs, and lifecycle decisions.
- Relevant certifications in cloud platforms, agile/product operating models, DevOps, security, or AI are a plus.
- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship (H1B, OPT/CPT, TN etc).
The Details:
You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan, including:
- Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
- Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.
And More:
We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:
- Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
- Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.
- Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.
- Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.
What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!
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The Salary range for this position is $134,300.00 - $223,833.33
This is the lowest to highest annual full-time salary range we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. The salary offered within the range may vary depending on multiple factors including job level, geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience and in compliance with local wage requirements. Please note that salary is only one component of total rewards at Stanley Black & Decker.
The salary range listed in this job posting reflects the range for the primary location specified. The salary range may vary for other locations.
The successful candidate may be eligible for annual merit increases.
Medical, dental, life, vision, disability,401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tool sand other partner programs.
