About the Role
Guide the vision and execution of automation initiatives across engineering teams, ensuring alignment with product goals and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Define long-term technical direction for automation platforms
- Lead cross-functional engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions
- Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to prioritize initiatives
- Drive engineering excellence through code quality and system reliability
- Mentor and grow engineering managers and technical leads
- Establish best practices for automated testing and deployment
- Oversee the integration of automation into core product workflows
- Ensure systems are designed with security and compliance in mind
- Manage resource allocation and team structure for maximum impact
- Evaluate emerging technologies for potential adoption
- Lead incident response and post-mortem processes when needed
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and innovation
- Set performance metrics for automation coverage and effectiveness
- Work closely with QA and platform teams to streamline delivery
- Champion developer experience improvements across tooling
- Drive adoption of observability and monitoring in automated systems
- Balance technical debt reduction with feature development
- Align automation strategy with customer needs and feedback
- Support onboarding and knowledge sharing across teams
- Lead planning for large-scale system migrations or rewrites
- Ensure documentation standards are maintained and accessible
- Promote inclusive decision-making in technical design
- Evaluate third-party tools versus in-house development
- Maintain focus on system uptime and error reduction
- Support engineering scalability through automation-first mindset
Compensation
Competitive salary with equity and benefits package
Work Arrangement
Hybrid or remote options available
Team
Engineering leadership role within a fast-growing technology organization
Why This Role Matters
Automation is central to maintaining speed and quality as systems grow in complexity. This leader will shape how engineering teams build, test, and deploy software securely and efficiently.
What We Value
Technical depth paired with leadership maturity, a focus on measurable impact, and the ability to operate strategically while staying connected to implementation details.
Available for qualified candidates
