Director of Platform

Instinct Science-posted 20 days ago
$175,000 - $240,000/Yr
Full-time • Director
Remote • Doylestown, PA
101-250 employees
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As the Director of Platform, you will be responsible for defining the long-term strategic vision and architecture of the company's core technology platform. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team to build a world-class platform that not only ensures security, compliance, and reliability, but also acts as a key enabler for business growth and product innovation. This role is a critical executive function that involves aligning platform strategy with overall business goals, influencing organizational priorities, and driving a culture of operational excellence. You will be accountable for the scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency of the entire platform ecosystem, ensuring it can support the company's current and future needs.

  • Strategic Leadership: Define the overarching platform vision and multi-year technology roadmap.
  • Business Alignment: Partner with executive leadership across product, engineering, and business units to ensure platform strategy directly supports and enables company-wide objectives.
  • Organizational Scaling: Build, mentor, and scale the platform engineering organization, including defining its structure, roles, and career paths.
  • Budgeting & Financial Management: Own and manage the platform's budget, including forecasting and optimizing cloud infrastructure costs and resource allocation to maximize return on investment.
  • Technology & Innovation: Evaluate and champion the adoption of new technologies and architectural patterns to maintain a competitive advantage.
  • Governance & Standards: Establish and enforce company-wide architectural standards, security policies, and operational best practices.
  • Vendor & Partner Management: Manage key relationships with external vendors, technology partners, and service providers.
  • Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A): Provide technical due diligence and integration planning for potential M&A activities.
  • Tier-2/3 Production Support: Ensure the platform organization is prepared to handle and resolve the most complex, high-priority production incidents.
  • BS/MS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering and platform development, with at least 7 years in a leadership role.
  • Demonstrated experience at the Director or Manager level leading a platform or infrastructure organization.
  • Proven track record of building and scaling cloud-native platforms to support a rapidly growing business.
  • Deep expertise in cloud platforms and architectural patterns.
  • Experience in a B2B SaaS environment is highly preferred.
  • We offer a supportive and caring work environment.
  • We are transparent, open, honest, and empathic, both internally and externally.
  • We pay our team well.
  • We offer medical, dental and vision benefits and 401K with match.
  • We give our team owner-like flexibility over work and time-off, including time to innovate and Flow State Fridays.
  • We offer a generous stipend that can be used for almost anything to allow you to bring your best self to work.
  • We provide all-expense-paid time throughout the year together, including at our annual retreat.
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