Executive Director, Technology

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $175k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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Endpoints News

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Healthcare • Consulting • Marketing

Endpoints News is a media company that delivers news and insights for professionals in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. It covers a wide range of topics including biotechnology, drug discovery, clinical trials, FDA approvals, financial deals, and industry regulations. It offers daily newsletters, breaking news alerts, webinars, and special reports targeting biopharmaceutical professionals. The company caters to those discovering, developing, and marketing biopharmaceutical drugs.

📋 Description

• Lead and grow the technology team across engineering, delivery, and operations • Own hiring, performance, development, and difficult personnel conversations • Manage through a manager as the function scales • Shape technical strategy with the SVP, including architecture, build-versus-buy, integrations, and platform direction • Translate product direction into shipped software through scoping, technical requirements, sequencing, and stakeholder commitments • Run delivery cadence, dependencies, and visibility across the technology function • Answer for the quality and outcomes of team deliverables • Set technical standards, review architecture, and implement mechanisms to catch production issues • Ship production code every week and carry hands-on technical work • Stand up new products and evolve existing products across news, subscriptions, identity, data, and events • Lead security across systems, access, third-party risk, and incident response • Own the content and data spine, including content modeling, CMS, APIs, and MCP services • Own environments, CI, previews, observability, and production operations • Own internal systems and tooling across CRM, events, email, subscriptions, and business data • Direct contractors and vendors and hold their work to company standards • Assess and launch sound AI-assisted work from non-engineers • Partner with editorial and business leadership to deliver features at newsroom pace • Report to the SVP, Design, Product and Technology and collaborate with them on technical strategy

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years leading technical teams • Experience managing engineers directly and through other managers • Experience hiring, developing, and exiting employees • Experience setting team standards and accountability for delivery • Regularly write and ship production code • Experience owning delivery, operations, vendor relationships, and stakeholder commitments • Ability to translate business intent into technical scope, cost, and impact • Real backend and infrastructure depth • Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and modern tooling • Payload CMS on PostgreSQL, or equivalent depth in a headless, code-first CMS • Content modeling and API design with GraphQL and REST • Next.js and Astro with React islands • Application security, including authentication, authorization, secrets management, dependency hygiene, and least privilege • LLM-native workflow and judgment about appropriate AI use • Identity and payments: SSO/OIDC, Logto, Stripe, entitlements, and paywall logic • AWS: Lambda via OpenNext, S3, CloudFront, IAM, and RDS • Containers on Kubernetes • Security operations, including attack surface and asset inventory, decommissioning, access lifecycle, credential rotation, and forensic logging • Incident response involving containment, evidence, and reporting • Privacy and compliance knowledge, including GDPR and CCPA, consent and tracking, and data retention • PHP, MySQL, Python/FastAPI, Elasticsearch, and message brokers • Experience working where designers ship their own code • Experience directing contractors and vendors • Ability to communicate with editorial and commercial leaders • Media or publishing background is a strong plus, not a requirement

🏖️ Benefits

• ~$40k annual bonus opportunity • Fully remote work • Positive, supportive, and collaborative work culture • Generous annual paid time off • 12 company holidays • 2 floating holidays • Medical insurance with Endpoints paying 70% of premiums for employee, spouse, and/or dependents • Fully-paid dental and vision insurance • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability insurance • $50,000 Basic Life and AD&D Insurance • Employee Assistance Program • Additional Life, Hospital, Critical Illness, and Accident Insurance through Guardian • MDLIVE access to doctors, mental health professionals, nutritionists, and dermatologists • Fully-paid Primary or Secondary Caregiver Leave for birth or adoption • Paid volunteer days • 401(k) match: 100% of the first 3% of employee contributions and 50% of the next 2% • Laptop, monitor, and additional equipment provided • $75 per month work-from-home stipend • $500 annual home office stipend • Discounted products through Bennie, including insurance, family planning and support, behavioral health, wellness, pet insurance, and financial wellness • Discounted MetLife Legal Services plan