• At least 10 years of experience building and delivering software products
• 5+ years of engineering management experience running web frontend and backend teams and experience managing managers for at least 2 years
• Strong record of thriving in a customer-obsessed product development environment with evidence of helping to define and influence overall product strategy
• Experience building high scale web and mobile front ends with React and building large scale and growing consumer propertiesAn exceptional understanding of technology best practices, application security, and history of making tradeoffs based on current needs
• Proven track record of scaling a team in high-growth companies, not just in number of team members but also in developing team member capabilities and skills
• History of building accountability and success by setting measurable goals and metrics for your teams
• Ability to set strategic direction in working with senior executives, but also loves getting your hands dirty executing with the team
• Thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing, high-growth environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, prioritize and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with internal and external partners
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset and approach to problem solving

Desirable

• As the Director of Engineering at Scribd, you will lead the pivotal User-Generated Content Pillar, which includes our Scribd core document experience and SlideShare teams
• This role demands a visionary leader who can manage multiple engineering teams, elevate our product development, and ensure seamless collaboration across functional areas
• Your leadership will play a critical role in shaping our monetization strategy, which, while primarily subscription-based, is strategically expanding its focus on advertising to enhance revenue streams
• Leadership of User-Generated Content Pillar: Oversee the engineering teams for Scribd’s core document experience and SlideShare
• Ensure these platforms effectively support our subscription model and strategically integrate advertising without compromising user experience
• Strategic Monetization Planning: Collaborate closely with Product Managers to refine and execute a monetization strategy that balances our strong subscription base with the growth of advertising revenues
• Innovate and adapt to market changes while maintaining a seamless user experience
• Cross-Functional Team Collaboration: Facilitate strong cooperation between engineering teams and other departments, including UX designers, technical program management, and customer support, to ensure that product enhancements align with business goals and customer expectations
• Engineering Excellence and Innovation: Actively participate in strategic meetings to advocate for necessary resources, tech stack upgrades, and process improvements that promotes a culture of technical excellence and expansion of the user-generated content platforms.​​
• Experimentation and Cross-Functional Initiatives: Lead the development and implementation of experimentation frameworks to test new ideas and features systematically
• Collaborate with product managers, business analysts and data engineering to oversee these experiments, ensuring they are well-designed, executed, and analyzed
• This role will require you to interface with multiple engineering disciplines to ensure experiments are robust and yield actionable insights
• Talent Management and Team Growth: Lead talent acquisition, development, and retention with strategies focused on proactive recruitment, structured career progression, and continuous training
• Implement performance management systems, define clear career paths, and enhance job satisfaction to build a high-performing engineering team
• Innovation & AI: Harnessing innovation across the team to solve problems with out of box thinking and using AI as a platform to enhance customer experience and developer experience