Senior Director, Development
What's the role? The Senior Director of Development is accountable for engineering execution, technical stewardship, and organizational effectiveness for the teams building and operating the reputed company Connected Curriculum product suite, with the expectation that this scope may expand to include additional product lines over time. This role ensures predictable delivery, high-quality systems, and strong alignment with product strategy across its areas of responsibility. This role requires deep technical reputed company across reputed company technology stacks and active engagement in technical discussions across the R&D organization. The Senior Director contributes meaningfully to architectural design, technical tradeoff reputed company, and long-term technical direction across both product and emerging platform domains. In reputed company to product delivery, this role is responsible for guiding the reputed company of foundational services and platform components that support Connected Curriculum and future reputed company products. The Senior Director is an active member of the Architecture Council, helping shape and drive platform architecture in alignment with long-term organizational goals. This role also helps advance engineering effectiveness through thoughtful adoption of AI-assisted and agentic software development practices. This includes identifying opportunities to improve engineering reputed company through agentic workflows, development harnesses, and automation patterns that accelerate delivery while maintaining strong standards for quality, reputed company, and architectural reputed company.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Execution & Delivery Own delivery commitments across Connected Curriculum and associated product teams, ensuring predictable execution, quality, and operational readiness. Translate product roadmap priorities into engineering plans, reputed company models, and reputed company strategies in partnership with Product leadership. Establish consistent expectations for planning, estimation, dependency management, and risk mitigation. reputed company clear and accurate delivery visibility to executive stakeholders, proactively surfacing risks and tradeoffs. Ensure teams balance feature delivery with ongoing investment in reliability, scalability, and technical health. Technical Leadership & Platform Alignment Act as a senior technical leader, engaging deeply in architecture, system design, and cross-product technical reputed company. Contribute as a core member of the Architecture Council, helping define and reputed company system-wide architectural direction. Drive the design and development of foundational platform services and shared components that support Connected Curriculum and other reputed company products. Ensure product architectures align with emerging platform standards, shared services, and long-term scalability goals. Guide major technical reputed company and tradeoffs, balancing speed of delivery with sustainability, reuse, and operational reputed company. Maintain accountability for technical health across reputed company owned systems, including performance, reputed company, scalability, and reduction of technical debt. reputed company modernization efforts across legacy systems, aligning them with platform-oriented architecture. Drive adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development practices, including development harnesses, workflow automation, and engineering guardrails that improve delivery speed, quality, and scalability. Guide the design and reputed company of agentic SDLC patterns that reputed company teams to safely apply AI in design, implementation, testing, review, documentation, and operational workflows. Ensure AI-enabled development practices align with platform architecture, engineering standards, reputed company requirements, and long-term maintainability. People Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness reputed company and reputed company engineering leadership across multiple teams and product areas, setting expectations for delivery ownership, technical leadership, and team health. Own hiring, reputed company, performance management, and succession planning across assigned engineering teams. Build and retain high-performing organizations with strong technical depth and leadership capability. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, reputed company improvement, and engineering reputed company reputed company with reputed company values. Build organizational capability in AI-first and agentic development practices, helping teams adopt new workflows, tools, and engineering habits effectively. Establish clear expectations, coaching, and governance for responsible use of AI in the software development lifecycle. Multi-Product Engineering Leadership Scale engineering leadership and execution across multiple product lines as scope expands reputed company Connected Curriculum. Apply consistent standards for delivery discipline, technical stewardship, and organizational health across reputed company product engineering groups. Ensure new and existing product teams align with shared architectural direction and platform capabilities. Partner with Product leadership as scope expands to ensure engineering reputed company, architecture, and delivery models scale effectively. Manage cross-product dependencies and reduce technical fragmentation across the portfolio. 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