Hybrid On-Site: Walnut Creek, CA; San Diego, CA; Austin, TX; Troy, MI; Boston, MA; Kanata, Ontario, Canada
Citizenship: USA National or Canada Citizen, without citizenship of another country
Role Summary
Director , Strategic Engineering Programs
Shape the agenda. Align Product and Engineering. Turn strategy into results.
As a trusted advisor to the CVP of Engineering & Product, you will operate at the center of the organization's most critical priorities, helping shape strategy, drive executive decision-making, and accelerate execution across both Product Management and Engineering. This highly visible leadership role is responsible for ensuring product vision, investment priorities, customer needs, and engineering execution remain aligned. You will partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to advance strategic initiatives, improve organizational effectiveness, and drive measurable business outcomes.
Your Role
• Partner with the CVP of Engineering & Product to drive strategic priorities,
organizational alignment, and executive decision-making.
• Serve as a strategic advisor across both Product Management and Engineering,
helping connect product strategy, roadmap priorities, technology investments, and business objectives.
• Lead a portfolio of high-impact, cross-functional initiatives spanning Product,
Engineering, Go-to-Market, Customer Success, and other partner organizations.
• Drive planning and alignment around product portfolio priorities, roadmap
execution, resource tradeoffs, and investment decisions.
• Facilitate executive reviews, strategic planning, roadmap discussions, and
leadership operating rhythms.
• Shape executive communications, Board materials, and strategic narratives that
communicate progress, priorities, and business impact.
• Anticipate risks, resolve cross-functional issues, and accelerate progress on the
organization's highest-priority initiatives.
Your Background
• 10+ years of leadership experience in strategy, product strategy, business
operations, consulting, chief of staff, program leadership, or related fields.
• Proven experience partnering closely with executive leaders in product and
technology organizations.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide strategic and transformational
initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Product Management, product development lifecycles,
and engineering operating models.
• Exceptional communication, executive influence, and stakeholder management
skills.
• Ability to drive alignment and outcomes across functions without direct authority.
Success in This Role
• Strong alignment between product strategy, roadmap execution, and business
outcomes.
• Successful delivery of strategic initiatives across Product Management and
Engineering.
• Faster, higher-quality executive decisions grounded in clear priorities and tradeoffs.
• Increased organizational focus, leadership effectiveness, and cross-functional
collaboration.
• Measurable progress against the company's most important business, customer, and technology objectives.
Core Accountability
This role serves as a strategic accelerator for the CVP of Engineering & Product, driving alignment, decision clarity, and execution across the organization's highest-priority initiatives. Success is measured by strategic impact, organizational effectiveness, and business outcomes.
Additionally, will consider San Diego, CA, Walnut Creek, CA, Boston, MA, Troy, MI, Kanata, ON or Austin, TX area (brick and mortar location will be leased soon)
COMPENSATION
The annual base salary range for this role's listed grade level is currently $190,000 to $220,000 plus bonus for residents in the states of Colorado, New York and New Jersey; and $200,000 to $230,000 plus bonus for residents in the states of California and Washington, and the NYC area. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, location and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, 12 paid holidays.
