Executive Director, Product and Technology

Endpoints News

6d•Remote

About The Position

We’re looking for an Executive Director, Product and Technology who is obsessed with one thing: turning great ideas into products for our readers/viewers, newsroom and business team. This is a job for somebody who is passionate about the news and how users get must-have information in a fast-paced, competitive environment. You'll report directly to the Managing Director and work closely with our newsroom and business leadership to build the tools, features, and infrastructure that serve our readers and power our business. This is a role for somebody who wants to build, and wants to be a part of shaping the future of specialty news. You’ll be a primary decision-maker on how we build and ship, and you'll manage a small engineering team while remaining a hands-on contributor. Enthusiasm for being a hands-on partner to our senior newsroom and business leaders is a must.

Requirements

Mid career technical leader who has set architecture direction and shipped products at a high-velocity startup or product-driven company.
Experience in media, publishing, or an adjacent space.
LLM-native: You use AI tools as a core part of your workflow and understand how they're changing what's possible for non-engineers.
A proven builder with strong full-stack or backend engineering fundamentals who is still actively writing code
Comfortable in a player-coach role. You're managing a small team but you're still in the work every day. You care about what ships, not who gets credit.
Based in the United States; fully remote

Responsibilities

Lead the technical architecture and drive the build and delivery of products across the Endpoints ecosystem. This includes our core news platforms, subscription and identity systems, survey and data products, events infrastructure, among others.
Make pragmatic build/buy/integrate decisions, with a strong bias toward leveraging modern tooling (including AI and LLM-powered workflows) to ship faster
Partner directly with editorial and business leadership to translate ideas into shipped features, moving as fast as the newsroom demands to serve our readers
Review, refine, and ship code and products created by non-engineering team members (including AI-assisted builds from editorial and business stakeholders), evaluating them on their merits and getting solid work into production quickly
Lead and grow the tech and engineering team, setting standards, unblocking people, and building a culture of speed and craftsmanship
Work closely with senior leadership to shape the product direction and have a strong bias towards “here’s how we build that” and not "here's why we can't"

Benefits

Work From Anywhere!
Positive, Supportive, and Collaborative Work Culture.
Generous PTO is offered annually, plus 12 company holidays and 2 floating holidays!
Medical Insurance: Endpoints pays 70% of premiums for employee, spouse, and/or dependents.
Fully-Paid Benefits for Employees: Dental and Vision insurance, Short-Term and Long Term Disability, $50,000 Basic Life and AD&D Insurance, and our Employee Assistance Program.
Additional Life, Hospital, Critical Illness, and Accident Insurance: Offered through Guardian.
MDLIVE: See a doctor, mental health professional, nutritionist, or dermatologist on your time and online!
Family Leave: All employees are eligible for fully-paid Primary or Secondary Caregiver Leave for the birth or adoption of a child.
Paid Volunteer Days: Provides employees with the opportunity to engage in community service & volunteer activities.
401K: Endpoints will match 100% of the first 3% of an employee's contribution; followed by 50% match of the next 2%.
Equipment Provided: Laptop, monitor, and additional equipment needs.
WFH Stipend: $75 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
Home Office Stipend: $500 annually to help you create your dream office.
Benefits Marketplace: We’ve partnered with Bennie to provide discounted products for employees such as other insurances, family planning & support, behavioral health, wellness, pet insurance, and financial wellness.
MetLife Legal: We’ve partnered with MetLife Legal Services to provide a discounted legal plan for our employees.