# Sr. Director of Software Engineering

**Company**: BambooHR
**Location**: Utah
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At BambooHR, we're building a people intelligence platform that transforms HR and sets people free to do great work. We're looking for a Sr. Director of Software Engineering to own engineering across the employee journey portfolio and transform these experiences into a coherent employee journey powered by applied AI.

**Essential Job Duties** As Senior Director of Software Engineering, you will own engineering across this portfolio and transform these experiences into a coherent employee journey powered by applied AI. You will play a central role in realizing the full vision of Bamboo AI while delivering secure, reliable products that help people do great work. You will model BambooHR's values and build a culture of ownership, learning, collaboration, and accountability.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Own the engineering outcomes for the employee journey across multiple teams, proactively identifying the most important problems and building the path to solve them.

- Align Product, Technology, Customer Experience, and go-to-market leaders around a unified employee-journey strategy.

- Lead AI-native product development across the employee journey, turning customer problems into applied-AI experiences with measurable value.

- Transform how engineering teams build by establishing agentic practices that improve speed, quality, and learning.

- Turn decisions into reliable execution by establishing operating mechanisms, surfacing risk early, resolving cross-team dependencies, and staying with the work until it produces measurable results.

- Build a results-oriented leadership team of engineering managers and senior technical leaders, with clear accountability, strong judgment, and succession depth.

- Set the technical bar for architecture, quality, reliability, security, privacy, and technical health across the portfolio, making the tradeoffs required to modernize while continuing to deliver.

**Requirements**

- 15+ years of experience in software development and engineering leadership, including 5+ years in a Director-level or comparable leader-of-leaders role across multiple SaaS product teams.

- A demonstrated record of independently spotting important, ambiguous problems and owning measurable outcomes across organizational boundaries.

- Exceptional product and business judgment, including the ability to work backward from customer outcomes, make company-level tradeoffs, and decide what not to pursue.

- Fluency using AI in your own leadership work, with experience guiding engineering teams through an agentic transformation and sound judgment about where human review remains essential.

- Experience leading AI-native products from problem selection through production, with measurable customer value.

- Strong execution discipline, including turning strategy into priorities, owners, operating mechanisms, metrics, and reliable delivery.

- A record of developing results-oriented engineering managers and senior technical leaders who increased their judgment, scope, and organizational impact, while building leadership depth and succession coverage.

- Strong architectural and technical depth, with experience modernizing and operating secure, reliable SaaS systems at scale.

- Exceptional cross-functional and executive communication, with a record of aligning Product, Technology, Customer Experience, and go-to-market leaders around shared outcomes.

- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

**Benefits**

- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance

- Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off

- 401k plans with up to 6% company match

- $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus

- EAP through Headspace

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- Software Development
- Engineering Leadership
- SaaS
- Product Development
- Technical Leadership

### Nice to have
- HR technology
- benefits administration
- payroll
- small and medium-sized businesses

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