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Director of Engineering
Linktree
Los AngelesHybrid4mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Lead
About the role
The Role
What You’ll Do
- Own engineering execution and outcomes across multiple product engineering teams.
- Lead, coach, and develop Engineering Managers and senior ICs, building a strong leadership bench and healthy team culture.
- Set technical direction and standards for user-facing systems, balancing long-term quality with delivery speed.
- Partner deeply with Product and Design to shape roadmaps, define scope, and translate product vision into shippable plans.
- Drive delivery excellence, ensuring teams prioritize effectively and consistently deliver high-impact work.
- Guide architectural decisions for front-end and full-stack systems with a pragmatic, product-minded approach.
- Champion quality, performance, and reliability, including testing strategy, operational readiness, and on-call health.
- Leverage AI to accelerate both delivery and product impact from developer tooling and workflows to AI-powered product experiences that drive user value.
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders and executives, surfacing progress, risks, and tradeoffs early and thoughtfully.
- Navigate ambiguity and shape strategy in evolving product areas, defining the engineering approach where the playbook doesn't yet exist.
Who You Are
- Proven experience leading multiple product engineering teams in a product-led, consumer-facing environment.
- Strong technical foundation in modern web development and architecture (TypeScript, React, GraphQL, AWS).
- Deep understanding of how to ship and scale user-facing products with a high bar for UX, performance, and polish.
- Comfortable operating across levels — from org design and strategy to critical technical and delivery decisions.
- Strong instinct for connecting engineering execution to business metrics — you think in terms of conversion, retention, and revenue impact, not just shipping features.
- A collaborative, empathetic leader with strong cross-functional communication skills.
- Delivery-oriented with excellent instincts for prioritization, sequencing, and tradeoff management.
- Thrives in ambiguous, high-opportunity spaces where the strategy is still being shaped.
- Curious and AI-forward, actively using automation and LLM tools to boost team effectiveness.
Nice to Have
- Experience building products for creators, small businesses, or independent sellers — particularly around helping them grow or monetize.
- Exposure to commerce, subscription systems, or monetization surfaces.
- Track record of scaling teams through periods of rapid product growth while maintaining quality.
Our Story
Where and How We Work
How we’ll help you thrive
- An annual wellbeing allowance to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships, development courses, childcare, travel, charitable donations, pet insurance, home office set-up - the choice is yours!
- 100% coverage (and 80% for your dependents) of your monthly premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for US-based employees.
- Employer contribution towards your retirement.
- Generous time off for vacation, holidays, parental leave, volunteer time, and other categories.
- Employee stock option program - we want each and every employee to share in the company’s success.
Perks & benefits
- Async
- Free Gym Membership
- Equity Compensation
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