Director of Engineering | Growth & Transformation

Red Ventures•Charlotte, NC

13h•$145,000 - $325,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Red Ventures Growth & Transformation (RVGT) is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the engineering organization responsible for a client's acquisition and digital operations. The role leads engineering managers and tech leads building AI-native products and agentic workflows, owns technical delivery commitments, and serves as the senior engineering relationship with client product, technology, and data leaders. The Director sets technical strategy, connects engineering decisions to measurable business impact, and builds a team capable of delivering that impact. The position leads and develops engineering managers and technical leads, establishes the organization’s technical strategy and operating rhythm, and sets standards for safe, repeatable use of coding agents and agentic workflows. It partners with client executives to turn objectives and experimentation insights into measurable technical roadmaps, communicate trade-offs and risks, and resolve delivery issues. The Director guides architecture across systems using React, Next.js, Go, AWS, and Terraform; reviews designs and agent-generated plans; and contributes hands-on when needed. The role also ensures contractual, security, privacy, consent, audit, accessibility, and data-handling obligations are met, while collaborating across product, data, operations, and engineering teams to reuse components and share effective practices. This is a hybrid role based in the South Charlotte, North Carolina or New York, New York office. The position is not open to visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship and is not available for corp-to-corp work. Compensation is $145,000–$260,000 total cash annually, or $181,250–$325,000 in New York City; equity is offered separately. Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.

Requirements

At least 10 years of software engineering experience.
At least 4 years leading engineering teams and at least 2 years managing managers or tech leads.
Strong engineering foundation across modern web, cloud, and distributed systems.
Experience with digital acquisition and conversion experiences, including funnels, checkout and application flows, partner integrations, experimentation, and compliance in the flow.
Sufficient depth in React, Next.js, Go, AWS, and Terraform to evaluate designs and contribute when required.
Strategic judgment connecting technical decisions to business impact and ability to explain trade-offs to executives in plain terms.
Experience owning client or partner relationships, including crises and sensitive conversations.
Familiarity with agentic systems and AI-assisted development, including governing them with evaluations, guardrails, and clear specifications, and mentoring others in that workflow.
Experience building and scaling engineering organizations, including hiring, performance management, and developing leaders.
Experience with contractual and regulatory obligations, including SLAs, audit, OWASP, WCAG, and GDPR/CCPA.
Excellent written and verbal communication, including design documentation and updates for business and technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

Client or partner relationship experience in a services, agency, or partner-facing environment.
Experience with contractual and regulatory obligations in financial services.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and grow engineering managers and tech leads; hold them accountable for delivery, quality, and team health.
Set the engineering organization’s technical strategy, roadmap, and operating rhythm, aligning work with client and business outcomes.
Hire and retain senior engineering talent and build succession plans and career paths.
Set expectations and standards for safe, repeatable work with coding agents and agentic workflows.
Serve as the senior engineering partner to client executives and stakeholders across product, technology, and data.
Translate partner objectives and experimentation insights into technical roadmaps with clear success metrics and baselines, and manage the agreed scope.
Present trade-offs, risks, and results to senior leaders in business terms and build confidence in the path to measurable impact.
Lead through deployments, incidents, and sensitive conversations, and help partner teams and vendors resolve issues on their side.
Learn and build with agents, sharing learnings with the team.
Guide architecture decisions for systems built with React, Next.js, Go, AWS, and Terraform.
Review designs and agent-generated plans, and contribute hands-on when needed.
Ensure delivery meets contractual obligations, including SLAs, data handling, and audit requirements, as well as security, privacy, consent, and accessibility requirements.
Partner with product, data, operations, and other RVGT engineering leaders to reuse components and share effective practices.

Benefits

Health insurance coverage, including medical, dental, and vision.
Life insurance.
Short- and long-term disability insurance.
Flexible spending accounts.
Holiday pay.
401(k) with company match.
Employee Assistance Program.
Paid parental bonding benefit program.
Flexible paid time off; full-time employees accrue 20 days per calendar year, increasing to 25 days after five years of service.
Equity offered separately from total cash compensation.