Senior Director, Engineering
Axios · Remote
About this role
**The big picture:** Axios is a modern media company built around clarity, trust, and smart, essential coverage. As AI reshapes how companies operate, Axios has an opportunity to become more AI-native in how we build products, improve workflows, and help teams move faster with better judgment. We’re hiring a **Sr. Director of Engineering** to lead the people, systems, and practices behind reliable products. **Why it matters:** This leader will develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders while closely guiding teams using AI to build and experiment. Working closely with the CTO, you’ll turn company technology direction into clear engineering decisions and execution. **Go deeper:** The role spans engineering across Axios products, platforms, and workflows—from our CMS and axios.com to newsletters, Local products, internal tools, and systems supporting the Newsroom and business teams. Product, Newsroom, and business leaders set the goals; Engineering builds the systems and capabilities to achieve them. The right leader will speed decisions, shorten the path from idea to product, spot risks early, and escalate issues before they grow. **Responsibilities include:** - Partner closely with the CTO and engineering leaders to shape engineering strategy and technical direction. - Lead and develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders; support clear accountability and a healthy culture. Develop and retain strong talent, and hire thoughtfully as needs evolve. - Strengthen planning, delivery, quality, and reliability. Help teams make faster decisions, move ideas into products, spot risks, and escalate issues early. - Partner with Product, Design, Newsroom, and business leaders to turn priorities into technical plans and match engineering capacity to the most important work. - Bring strong judgment to architecture, platforms, and reliability, especially when tradeoffs span teams. - Own operating standards, guidelines, and practices that help engineering teams plan, build, test, release, operate, and learn effectively. - Establish shared benchmarks and baselines for engineering health. - Lead vendor evaluation and selection for engineering tools, platforms, and services—balancing capability, cost, security, reliability, support, and long-term fit. - Help define modern engineering leadership inside an AI-native media company and shape how Axios builds, learns, and delivers at speed. **Worthy of your time:** You’ll be a close partner to the CTO and senior leaders—able to explain technical details clearly and dive deep with engineers on technical and architectural questions. Success looks like faster decisions, a shorter path from idea to product, strong engineering leadership, reliable systems, and an organization that sees around corners. **What we’re looking for:** - You’ve led and developed engineering managers and senior technical leaders, setting clear expectations and addressing performance directly. - You’ve helped teams use AI to improve how they build, test, and operate software and to experiment with new product capabilities. - You translate technical details for executives and nontechnical partners while going deep with engineers on technical and architectural questions. - You quickly understand unfamiliar areas, ask the right questions, and know when to bring in expertise, invest in platforms, simplify systems, or accept a short-term tradeoff. - Ideally, you’ve led teams responsible for high-traffic digital prod
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