Director of Engineering - Core Experiences Melbourne

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams.

How you can help make a better world of work

Are you a visionary leader with a passion for engineering excellence and deep technical experience in platform engineering and building shared services? We are seeking a Director of Engineering for our Core Experiences Camp who can lead our efforts in building and scaling our cutting-edge platform capabilities. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our platform.

Your teams will help drive one of the most innovative features, combining our People Science knowledge with our employee surveys and performance data using the latest artificial intelligence technique. A real AI use case that can drive meaningful benefit to 25 million employees. Your teams will also drive core elements of the platform, including home, navigation and rolling out our design language.

As the Director of Engineering within a Camp leadership team, you will be accountable for all aspects of the engagement and growth of our talented engineers, delivery of the engineering roadmap, and the stability and quality of the Camp’s production assets. You will be an important conduit for ensuring the Core Experience Camp's engineering is done in collaboration with the wider engineering organisation, bringing all parts of our platform closer together.

You will:

• Collaborate with the rest of your camp leadership team to ensure we have a structure that supports effective and efficient execution.
• Work closely with the product management and design functions within your camp to ensure that your teams all have roadmaps that are appropriately estimated, viable and coherent.
• In collaboration with our Chief Engineer, be accountable for all technical decisions made within your camp, and how they align to and support our overall tech vision.
• Present clear and compelling plans that align with the group-wide product strategy.
• Share, collaborate and align camp-level technical road-maps and strategies with senior engineering leads beyond your camp.
• Promote the sharing of technical decisions and knowledge.
• In collaboration with our Talent Acquisition team, identify and hire to address the technical gaps within your camp and ensure that we are building diverse teams.
• Directly maintain and grow your leadership team to be curious, intentional, and outcome-focused.
• Take accountability for the technology hosting budget for all technical assets owned by the camp, ensuring appropriate tradeoffs are being made.
• Take accountability for meeting all security best practices, government regulatory requirements and ISO/SOC2 compliance for all the assets owned by the camp.

You have:

• Extensive experience with platform engineering in fast-growth tech companies.
• A solid understanding of LLMs using RAG techniques.
• Frontend experience with a focus on design systems.
• Experience leading engineering teams of more than 20 engineers during the “scale-up” phase, ideally in the SaaS space.
• Proven experience in connecting engineering to business outcomes, with a lens to the customer.
• Understanding of operational excellence and how to improve the system of work to execute as effectively as possible.
• Technical experience at all levels of the stack, from the low level all the way up to complete distributed architecture experience.
• Exceptional people skills and experience leading multiple teams, as well as managing engineering leads and principal engineers.
• Strong communication skills, both in one-to-one situations and one-to-many in a variety of mediums.
• A remarkable eye for talent and solid track record of developing engineers.

You are:

• A strategic thinker.
• An effective coach.
• Accountable, with a strong bias for action.
• A strong leader.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We’re committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:

• Employee Share Options Program.
• Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally.
• Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support.
• Monthly Camper Life Allowance.
• Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection.
• Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses.
• Extended year-end breaks.
• Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp.
• 5 Social Impact Days a year.
• MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget.
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only).

Additionally, we don’t just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We’re committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example.

Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don’t apply for roles if they don’t meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements. We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we’d love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!