Sr. Director of Software Engineering
Bamboohr17 · Utah | Remote
About this role
**Please Note** - Utah-based hybrid role: requires some regular in-office days each week. - Employment with BambooHR is contingent on passing both a background and credit check. At BambooHR, we’re all about setting people free to do great work—and we believe AI is a powerful partner in that mission. We’re leaning into intelligent tools to streamline workflows, giving teams more time for high-impact innovation. --- ## Essential Job Duties As **Senior Director of Software Engineering**, you will own engineering across BambooHR’s employee-journey portfolio and transform these experiences into a coherent journey powered by applied AI. You’ll play a central role in realizing the full vision of **Bamboo AI** while delivering secure, reliable products that help people do great work. You’ll model BambooHR’s values and build a culture of ownership, learning, collaboration, and accountability. ### You will: - Own 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—communicating tradeoffs, decisions, priorities, and risks clearly enough for teams and executives to act. - 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. --- ## What You Need to Get the Job Done - 15+ years of software development and engineering leadership, including 5+ years in a Director-level (or comparable) leader-of-leaders role across multiple SaaS product teams. - Proven ability to independently spot important, ambiguous problems and own measurable outcomes across organizational boundaries. - Exceptional product and business judgment: work backward from customer outcomes, make company-level tradeoffs, and decide what not to pursue. - Fluency using AI in your own leadership work, including guiding engineering teams through an agentic transformation and knowing where human review remains essential. - Experience leading AI-native products from problem selection through production, with measurable customer value. - Strong execution discipline: turn strategy into priorities, owners, operating mechanisms, metrics, and reliable delivery. - Track record developing results-oriented engineering managers and senior technical leaders—expanding judgment, scope, and organizational impact while building leadership depth and succession coverage. - Strong architectural and technical depth, including modernizing and operating secure, reliable SaaS systems at scale. - Exceptional cross-functional and executive communication, aligning Product, Technology, Customer Experience, and go-to-market leaders around share
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