Senior Director of Engineering, Core Product

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $175k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Coursedog

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $90M Private Equity Round - Coursedog on 2023-03

Education • SaaS • B2B

Coursedog is an Intelligent Academic Operations Platform that unifies how higher education institutions manage scheduling, curriculum, catalogs, assessment, and related academic processes. The cloud-native SaaS system syncs with student information systems and other campus tools in real time to streamline curriculum management, academic scheduling, faculty workload, event scheduling, assessment cycles, and catalog publishing. Coursedog is used by colleges and universities to improve operational efficiency, support student success, enable digital modernization, and provide analytics and workflow automation across academic operations.

📋 Description

• Own day-to-day execution and engineering health of Assessment, Curriculum, and Scheduling product clouds • Translate the roadmap into reliable, high-quality software with engineering managers, product leadership, and cross-functional partners • Lead the transition from ad-hoc coding to spec-driven development • Establish standards for writing, versioning, and using specifications • Drive AI-assisted development while maintaining quality • Define and use delivery, quality, and reliability metrics to guide decisions and expose risks • Set commitments, define completion standards, clarify ownership, and address underperformance • Build a continuous-improvement culture across engineering teams • Set consistent planning, building, reviewing, testing, and release standards across three product clouds • Manage sprint health, throughput, quarterly delivery, blockers, and scope-quality-timeline trade-offs • Own quality, reliability, Change Failure Rate, Escaped Defect Rate, bug backlog, SLA compliance, and production availability • Hire, level, coach, and develop engineering managers; run calibration and performance cycles; build leadership bench • Partner with product, design, and customer-facing leadership • Strengthen specifications, estimation, definition of done, code review, release, and metrics practices • Establish operating cadence and baseline metrics • Pilot and scale spec-driven, AI-augmented engineering practices

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading engineering teams • Managing engineering managers; manager-of-managers experience required • Track record running multiple teams or product lines simultaneously and delivering predictably at scale • Experience leading an AI transformation of an engineering organization • Experience driving adoption of AI-assisted development and/or spec-driven practices • Metrics-driven leadership style; fluency with DORA, defect/escape rates, and SLA attainment • Ability to hold teams accountable and address performance directly • Demonstrated ownership of engineering quality and reliability • Record of building a continuous-improvement culture • Strong operating instincts across in-flight portfolios • Excellent cross-functional partnership with product and customer-facing teams • Clear, candid communication with executives • B2B SaaS experience • Familiarity with cloud/pod models and modern delivery tooling, including Jira, CI/CD, observability, and automated testing • Higher-education technology or regulated/enterprise vertical experience preferred • Experience scaling teams through rapid growth and process maturation preferred • Hands-on experience with spec-driven workflows or AI development tooling preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Healthcare, dental, and vision coverage • Employee-only coverage: 99% to 65% of monthly premiums • Employee plus dependents: 77% to 50% of monthly premiums • Spring Health (mental health support) • XP Health (vision benefits) • Carrot Fertility (family planning support) • One Medical (primary care) • Health Savings Accounts (HSA) • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) • Safe Harbor 401(k) plan from day one of employment • 4% employer match on total compensation, subject to federal limits • Unlimited Paid Time Off • Remote-first work arrangement • Equity grants aligned to role and tenure • Equity grants reviewed and adjusted with promotions • Up to 6 weeks of Paid Bonding Leave at 100% of base pay for all parents • Additional 6 weeks of Paid Medical Recovery Leave at 100% of base pay for birthing parents, up to 12 weeks total