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