Director, Engineering Manager

AssetMark Financial Holdings • Charlotte, NC

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

AssetMark is seeking a Director, Engineering Manager to lead its Enrollment and Servicing frontend team. The team owns mission-critical user interfaces used by financial advisors and operations professionals to open and enroll accounts and provide account servicing. This is a frontend-first, player-coach leadership role, with approximately 40% hands-on work, leading a multi-squad team while staying close to code, product, and user experience. The role focuses on delivering a commercially significant roadmap that affects advisor productivity, client experience, and business growth, in close partnership with Product and Design.

The Director will develop a frontend engineering team, mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and help hire and establish AssetMark’s Global Capability Center in Hyderabad, India. The role will champion frontend craft, shared design systems and components, performance, accessibility, usability, and AI-assisted development across the software development lifecycle. The position requires candidates to accommodate a hybrid schedule and be near AssetMark’s Charlotte, North Carolina office. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Approximately 10–15+ years of software engineering experience, primarily in frontend development.
• Deep expertise in modern frontend development, such as React, TypeScript, and mobile frameworks.
• Strong point of view on UI patterns, state management, and performance optimization.
• Passion for design systems, usability, and interaction quality.
• Proven ability to develop junior and mid-level engineers into high performers.
• Experience leading frontend teams in high-scale, product-driven environments.
• Experience leading multi-team or multi-squad teams.
• Ability to contribute to production code, code reviews, and design discussions.
• Strong product and execution mindset, including focus on business impact and delivering outcomes.
• Able to accommodate a hybrid work schedule and be close to the Charlotte, North Carolina office.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States; the company is unable to provide visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in fintech or regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of a large, complex, commercially critical product roadmap across frontend teams.
• Own execution quality and ensure teams deliver reliably, quickly, and to high standards.
• Translate product priorities into engineering plans, sequencing, and trade-offs, and drive accountability for outcomes.
• Continuously improve delivery practices while balancing speed, quality, and scalability.
• Lead and develop a multi-squad frontend engineering team, with an emphasis on growing junior and mid-level engineers.
• Establish a culture of craft excellence, mentorship, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute hands-on to the codebase, including production code, code reviews, and design discussions (approximately 40% or more).
• Hire and retain engineers who value user experience, performance, and code quality.
• Help build AssetMark’s Global Capability Center in Hyderabad, India, and develop a global engineering culture.
• Champion frontend patterns, including component-driven design, declarative approaches, and disciplined state management.
• Shape the use of AI-assisted development across the software development lifecycle.
• Drive consistency in design systems, UI frameworks, and shared components.
• Ensure high standards for performance, accessibility, usability, and interaction quality.
• Partner with platform teams on backend-for-frontend integration patterns while maintaining clear frontend ownership boundaries.
• Lead teams building intuitive, performant applications for advisors and investors, and ensure engineering execution aligns with design intent.
• Partner closely with Product and Design leaders, contribute to product strategy, and translate ambiguous goals into technical direction and execution plans.
• Own delivery across a portfolio of frontend teams, balancing speed, quality, and sustainability.
• Establish engineering standards, patterns, and ways of working, and guide teams through cross-application workflows and shared dependencies.
• Lead through ambiguity while maintaining velocity and high standards.

Benefits

• Flex time or paid time off and sick time off.
• 401(k) with a 6% employer match.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with HDHP or PPO options.
• Employer HSA contribution for HDHP participants.
• Volunteer time off.
• Career development and recognition.
• Fitness reimbursement.
• Hybrid work schedule.
• Additional variable incentive compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director