CommerceIQ is a well funded fast growing enterprise SaaS platform that is helping brands grow and sell more on e-commerce channels through its machine learning technology. Top consumer brands like Nestle, Coke, PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson, Mondelez, Kellogg to name a few rely on CommerceIQ suite of products to make efficient business decisions on a daily basis. It is critical to have high quality data and algorithms that drive business decisions for our customer in a timely manner. We are looking for a seasoned Engineering leader to own and lead the Engineering delivery and teams for one of our core Product Lines. 

As the Director of Engineering, you will lead the effort in building a truly disruptive and fundamentally differentiated world-class digital shelf analytics product that has helped drive a profound impact on how consumer brands sell and optimize their e-commerce presence and help drive millions of dollars in ROI. You will be responsible for leading a rockstar team spanning multiple engineering managers and 15+ Engineers, towards owning and managing the product delivery, software service quality and envisioning the future tech directions and goals in alignment with the organization product vision and growth plans.

The successful candidate will help make technical and business decisions which will shape the future of the product and company. They will be obsessed with technology and relentlessly raise the bar in terms of building excellent products (which are scalable and extensible and just work all the time), build winning teams and be able to rally these towards a vision, and can attract and retain top talent. The candidate should be capable of managing a fast-paced delivery schedule and influence and drive a high-level engineering strategy with the leadership, as well as take a hands-on approach to implementing that strategy.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, this role is for you. Come help us build an automated e-commerce optimization suite of products!

Responsibilities:

• As a key member of the executive team, work with Product Management, Marketing, Client Services, and Sales to deliver new, compelling products to market.
• Ship great products under stringent deadlines in the face of ambiguous requirements and changing business priorities.
• Attract talent, hire the best engineers, and grow teams at a rapid pace.
• Establish strong interlock with Sales teams to win new deals and Client Services teams to ensure customer success.
• Design enterprise-class SaaS systems.

Requirements:

• You have a Computer Science degree, or equivalent with at-least 10+ years of work experience and at least 5 years of leadership role, preferably experienced in managing engineering managers.
• Excellent delivery and people management skills.
• Exceptional leadership skills and proven experience in shaping team culture.
• Hands-on experience in building distributed systems with GCP / AWS and experienced in building and delivering highly scalable Enterprise SaaS software.
• Proven ability to headhunt, attract, retain, and coach engineering talent from top companies and universities.
• Strong analytical skills and high ownership.
• Prior experience with a start-up is preferred.
• Willing to work with a distributed team.