Director​/Senior Director, Technology

Senior Director of Technology

Embark is entering its next phase of growth, evolving from a company that delivers industry‑leading canine DNA insights into a personalized insights‑powered platform that helps pet owners better understand and care for their dogs throughout their lives.

To support this evolution, we are bringing product and technology together under a unified product organization, reporting to our chief product officer, and are seeking a senior director of technology to lead our engineering team through this next chapter.

This leader will be responsible for building a high‑performing engineering organization that can scale product innovation, accelerate delivery, leverage AI as a force multiplier, and create seamless collaboration across product, engineering, data, and customer‑facing teams.

The opportunity extends beyond traditional engineering leadership. We are looking for a technology leader who can help define how AI transforms the way we build products, make decisions, and operate as a company. This leader will also help shape and scale embark's uniquely complex engineering and data environment built on 3M+ genomes, longitudinal pet health data, scientific computing, and a proprietary data moat.

The role inherits both the opportunity and challenge of unlocking this asset into a unified, AI‑enabled intelligence platform that powers personalization, discovery, and next‑generation product experiences for millions of pet parents.

The successful candidate will inherit a talented team and play a pivotal role in:

• Building an AI‑enabled engineering organization
• Defining a modern data and platform strategy
• Scaling engineering effectiveness and execution
• Strengthening technical architecture and product quality
• Creating tighter alignment across product, engineering, science, data, and customer experience
• Developing future engineering leaders and organizational capability

This role is ideal for a leader who is energized by transformation, thrives in high‑growth environments, and wants to help shape how a category‑defining company leverages technology and AI to create meaningful customer impact.

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering organization across software engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, and scientific/genomic science pipelines.
• Build a high‑accountability, high‑performance culture grounded in ownership, execution excellence, continuous learning, and customer impact.
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineering leaders and high‑potential talent.
• Establish clear operating mechanisms, engineering standards, and scalable ways of working across teams.
• Drive organizational health, engagement, and retention within the technology organization.

• Define and execute the company's technology strategy in partnership with the chief product officer.
• Ensure architecture decisions support scalability, reliability, security, and long‑term business objectives.
• Balance technical debt reduction with product innovation and business priorities.
• Establish engineering roadmaps that align with company strategy and product goals.

• Lead embark's engineering strategy for AI‑enabled product development, internal workflows, and software development practices.
• Partner with product, science, and data teams to identify opportunities where AI and machine learning can create differentiated customer experiences and operational efficiencies.
• Drive adoption of AI‑assisted development tools and modern engineering workflows.
• Establish frameworks for responsible AI implementation, experimentation, governance, and measurement.
• Build and execute a cohesive data platform strategy that improves accessibility, reliability, and utilization of data across the organization.

• Serve as a strategic partner to product leadership in translating vision into scalable technical execution.
• Create strong alignment across squads to ensure customer experiences feel integrated rather than fragmented.
• Improve planning, prioritization, estimation, and execution practices…