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    Director, Engineering (Enterprise)

    Zapier
    NAMER
    Remote
    Director
    Full Time
    about 1 month ago
    💰$ 280,300 - $ 420,500
    AIEnterpriseEngineering LeadershipGovernanceIdentity and Access ManagementAudit and ComplianceAI-native EngineeringRemote
    Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

    Requirements

    • Experience building or leading systems involving identity, access control, audit, and policy with real consequences
    • Experience building strong service ownership models, on-call practices, and quality bars in fast-growing engineering organizations
    • Ability to set technical direction and push back on roadmaps when necessary
    • Experience scaling engineering organizations through structural change and organizational transitions
    • Experience working directly with sales, customer success, and enterprise customers to understand enterprise needs
    • Data-driven approach to measuring delivery, reliability, and quality
    • Skilled mentor, coach, and communicator with experience developing engineers and engineering leaders
    • Experience with AI coding agents and orchestration tools and understanding of AI-native engineering practices
    • Ability to champion efficiency and leverage with AI-first thinking

    What You'll Do

    • Define and drive the strategy and roadmap for Enterprise Governance in partnership with Product and Design leaders
    • Own the technical point of view on identity, access, audit, and policy and defend it in cross-functional and executive settings
    • Make staffing and investment trade-off decisions across initiatives
    • Own the technical roadmap for systems that let enterprises govern AI acting on their behalf
    • Define safe, accountable AI-native engineering practices for teams
    • Identify and implement AI-powered tooling to accelerate delivery velocity and quality
    • Be accountable for the reliability of identity, audit, and admin infrastructure including Tier-1 services
    • Build bench strength and resilience across critical systems
    • Coordinate cross-functional resources during major incidents and set stakeholder expectations
    • Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and enterprise customers to translate needs into engineering roadmap
    • Take ownership on cross-org technical initiatives related to identity and governance
    • Build and develop the enterprise engineering organization
    • Ensure managers and ICs have clear growth paths and feedback
    • Own the output and outcomes of teams and systems they own

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