Director of Engineering - Content Platform (Catalog)

The role

This director-level role sits within the content platform group and owns the systems that define and structure content across the company's products. The job centers on supplying a dependable, uniform data source so material can be reused by every product surface. It includes managing managers, setting long-term technical direction, and modernizing older systems.

What you would do

• Oversee multiple teams through their engineering managers and support people's professional growth.
• Set the technical direction for a key platform area and tie it to company-wide objectives.
• Improve shared catalog infrastructure so other groups can ship features more quickly.
• Steer the modernization of aging systems toward scalable, dependable designs.
• Work alongside product and other functional leaders to agree priorities and deliver results.
• Raise uptime and cut manual toil in pipelines that determine whether content is available.
• Look for chances to apply automation and AI to data quality and developer efficiency.
• Foster an inclusive culture of continuous process improvement across teams.
• Maintain a multi-year plan that weighs near-term needs against longer-term investments.

What they asked for

• Track record leading leaders who run their own engineering groups, and scaling organizations.
• Experience building data-heavy systems where correctness, consistency, and dependability at scale matter.
• Strong grounding in distributed system architecture and in making sound design decisions.
• Comfortable working with unclear goals and weighing trade-offs in high-impact settings.
• History of modernizing legacy platforms and guiding long-range transformation.
• Ability to build influence across engineering, product, and business teams.
• Experience leading teams spread across multiple sites.
• Clear communicator who can explain technical material to varied audiences.
• Interest in AI and automation, applied with practical judgment.
• Commitment to inclusive, collaborative team environments.