Senior Director, Engineering

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🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $250k - $270k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Axios

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

Consulting • Marketing • Media

Axios is a media company that delivers news and insights through various platforms, including newsletters, local news outlets, and exclusive content for professionals. It covers a broad range of topics such as politics, policy, business, technology, health, and energy, providing in-depth reporting and analysis. By focusing on quick, concise, and powerful stories, Axios aims to make news more accessible and engaging for its audience. Its offerings include free daily newsletters like Axios AM and Axios Pro, as well as events and live discussions.

📋 Description

• Partner closely with the CTO and engineering leaders to shape engineering strategy and technical direction • Lead and develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders, supporting accountability and a healthy culture • Develop and retain strong talent and hire thoughtfully as needs evolve • Strengthen planning, delivery, quality, and reliability • Help teams make faster decisions, move ideas into products, spot risks, and escalate issues early • Partner with Product, Design, Newsroom, and business leaders to turn priorities into technical plans and align engineering capacity with important work • Guide architecture, platforms, and reliability decisions, especially across teams • Own operating standards, guidelines, and practices for planning, building, testing, releasing, operating, and learning • Establish shared benchmarks and baselines for engineering health • Lead vendor evaluation and selection for engineering tools, platforms, and services • Help define engineering leadership and how Axios builds, learns, and delivers as an AI-native media company

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading and developing engineering managers and senior technical leaders • Experience setting clear expectations and addressing performance directly • Experience helping teams use AI to improve how they build, test, and operate software and experiment with new product capabilities • Ability to translate technical details for executives and nontechnical partners • Ability to engage deeply with engineers on technical and architectural questions • Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar areas, ask the right questions, and determine when to bring in expertise, invest in platforms, simplify systems, or accept short-term tradeoffs • Ideally, experience leading teams responsible for high-traffic digital products and the platforms behind them • Strong vision for how AI and technology will change engineering practices, product development, platforms, and internal workflows • Willingness to actively develop AI literacy and use AI tools to enhance productivity, creativity, and efficiency

🏖️ Benefits

• 401(k) with employer match • Robust PPO and high-deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network • Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high-deductible health plan option • Dental and vision coverage • Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave • Generous vacation policy, plus holidays • One mental health day per quarter • Annual learning and development stipend • $100 monthly work-from-home stipend • Tele-mental health services through Headspace • OneMedical membership, including telehealth services • Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate • Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility • Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies • Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers • Virtual company-sponsored social events • A strong and positive work environment • A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture • Ongoing learning to develop AI literacy and responsibly integrate AI tools into daily workflows