Director, Tech Lead

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The Tech Lead is accountable for the technical execution, architectural integrity, and delivery outcomes of a product team operating under the product model. This role partners as an equal with Product Management and Product Design to discover, deliver, and scale solutions that achieve measurable business outcomes, not feature throughput.
The Tech Lead owns how the product is built across all product teams, ensuring sustainable engineering practices that enable teams to move fast without sacrificing quality, security, reliability, or scalability. This role is accountable for aligning product architecture with enterprise architecture, including assessing upstream and downstream impacts of architectural decisions across the broader technology ecosystem.
The Tech Lead ensures alignment to current global standards wherever possible and intentionally influences enterprise practices when product architecture must deviate from existing standards. Accountability also includes ensuring compliance with cybersecurity practices across all product teams and adherence to applicable industry regulations, including SOX compliance, with risks surfaced early and managed transparently.

Core Accountabilities
Product Outcomes & Delivery
Own end-to-end engineering outcomes for the product: quality, reliability, performance, scalability, and time-to-value.

Translate product strategy and outcome-based OKRs into executable technical plans.

Lead continuous delivery with high deployment frequency, low change failure rates, and rapid recovery.

Technical Leadership & Architecture
Set and evolve the technical direction and architecture aligned to product strategy and enterprise guardrails.

Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, quality, cost, and technical debt.

Ensure systems are designed for resilience, observability, and security by default.

Product Team Partnership
Operate as a full partner with Product Manager and Product Designer.

Actively participate in product discovery, feasibility assessment, and solution shaping.

Challenge assumptions with data, prototypes, and technical insight with a focus of facts over opinions.

Demonstrate an entrepreneur demeaner with the ability to influence and sell ideas.

Ability to articulate complex technology concepts in a manner that business leaders and customers will understand.

Maintain a deep understanding of the business, priorities, and business strategy and in turn interpret that strategy into technology solutions.

Team Leadership & Talent Development
Mentor a high-performing, empowered engineering team.

Coach engineers on craftsmanship, system thinking, and product mindset.

Create an environment of ownership, psychological safety, and accountability.

Engineering Excellence
Establish and enforce standards for:

Code quality and test automation

CI/CD and Dev Ops practices

Security, privacy, and compliance

Reduce toil through automation and platform leverage.

Manage and deliberately pay down technical debt.

Stakeholder & Enterprise…