Director of Product Engineering

Nomad Labs Inc•Denver, CO

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Nomad is building the financial and property management infrastructure for small landlords. This role exists to add leverage to an existing system, helping the company move faster, make better decisions, and scale intelligently. The role is a coach position managing engineers at the intersection of engineering and product, focusing on improving decision-making processes for what and how to build, and fostering high levels of clarity, speed, and impact within the engineering team. While leading Engineering with a focus on product engineering, this role does not lead Product.

Requirements

Years of leadership experience
Experience leading high-performing engineering teams at a startup or growth-stage company
Product-minded and think in terms of business outcomes
Ability to bring rigor and shape to product ideas before they reach engineering
Ability to balance autonomy with alignment
Low ego and collaborative
Trusted by engineers and trust them in return
Ability to engage technically without needing to control every decision
Care about developer productivity, happiness, and efficiency
Experience with how teams evolve from 5 -> 10 -> 20 engineers
Genuinely interested in using AI to evolve how teams operate
Experience working in a small, fast-moving environment
Experience defining major new features given system constraints

Nice To Haves

Been a strong engineer and moved into leadership, and maybe even product
AI-pilled but wise enough to leverage the right tool for the job

Responsibilities

Product + engineering alignment: Help define what's worth building and why, and how product is built. Bring rigor to opportunities by assessing size, impact, tradeoffs, and constraints. Push for clarity before execution.
Planning and execution quality: Lead strong shaping and planning for cycles. Identify risks early and force hard tradeoffs upfront. Improve consistency of shipping without adding drag.
Team leadership and development: Support a highly autonomous team without micromanaging. Build trust, context, and alignment. Help engineers grow in ownership and capability.
Cross-functional leadership: Translate complexity into clear decisions. Ensure engineers understand the 'why' behind priorities. Collaborate deeply with product, growth, and operations.
Technical engagement: Engage meaningfully in architecture, scoping, and risk. Ask good questions and surface tradeoffs. Trust the team's context rather than prescribing solutions.
AI evolution: Lead the continuous deepening of AI adoption (paired with human judgment) in how the team builds. Identify where AI meaningfully improves the product and increases the leverage of a small team.