Director of Engineering | Growth & Transformation

Red Ventures•Charlotte, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Red Ventures Growth & Transformation (RVGT) is investing in a Growth Operating System made up of reusable workflows, agents, context layers, and governance mechanisms to help teams and partners drive growth more efficiently and at greater scale. The Director of Engineering leads the engineering organization behind a client’s acquisition and digital operations, including the managers and tech leads building AI-native products and agentic workflows. This role owns technical delivery commitments and the senior relationship with the client’s product, technology, and data leaders. It sets engineering strategy, connects technical decisions to measurable business impact, and builds a team that delivers. The position requires a hybrid schedule and is based in the South Charlotte, North Carolina, or New York, New York office. Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available, and the role is not available for corp-to-corp work. The Director leads, coaches, and grows engineering managers and tech leads; sets the organization’s technical strategy, roadmap, and operating rhythm; and establishes hiring, retention, succession, and career-development practices. The role champions safe, repeatable use of coding agents and agentic workflows. It serves as senior engineering partner to client executives, translating partner objectives and experimentation insights into technical roadmaps with clear success metrics and baselines, and communicating trade-offs, risks, and results in business terms. The role guides architecture across systems using React, Next.js, Go, AWS, and Terraform; reviews designs and agent-generated plans; and contributes hands-on when needed. It leads through deployments, incidents, and sensitive conversations, and ensures delivery meets contractual commitments, security and privacy requirements, and applicable consent, accessibility, audit, and data-handling obligations. It partners with product, data, operations, and other RVGT engineering leaders to reuse components and share effective practices.

Requirements

At least 10 years of software engineering experience.
At least 4 years leading engineering teams.
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, including the ability to tie technical decisions to business impact and 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 those workflows.
Experience building and scaling engineering organizations, including hiring, performance management, and developing leaders.
Experience with contractual and regulatory obligations such as SLAs, audit, OWASP, WCAG, and GDPR/CCPA.
Excellent written and verbal communication, including design documents and updates for business and technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

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, holding 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 develop succession plans and career paths.
Establish 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 scope against them.
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.
Guide architecture decisions across 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, along with security, privacy, consent, and accessibility requirements.
Partner with product, data, operations, and other RVGT engineering leaders to reuse components and share effective practices.
Learn and build with agents and share learnings with the team.

Benefits

Equity, offered separately from total cash compensation.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
Life insurance.
Short- and long-term disability insurance.
Flexible spending accounts.
Holiday pay.
401(k) with employer match.
Employee assistance program.
Paid parental bonding benefit program.
Flexible paid time off: full-time employees accrue 20 days annually for a full calendar year, increasing to 25 days after five years of service.