Senior Director - Digital Engineering

Senior Director - Digital Engineering Job#: 3052384

Job Description:

Overview Catalyst Brands is seeking a future-forward, execution-strong Sr. Director
- Digital Engineering to lead the Transact & Retain value stream across Catalyst Brands’ digital portfolio. This role owns the engineering strategy and delivery for revenue-critical digital experiences including Cart, Checkout, Account Management, Order History, Returns, and core commerce platforms. This leader will drive modernization of our commerce stack, strengthen transaction reliability and performance, and enable scalable multi-brand capabilities directly influencing revenue growth and customer retention.

As a critical member of the Digital Engineering leadership team, the Sr. Director will shape our engineering strategy, scale high-performance global teams, and embed a modern engineering culture grounded in velocity, quality, and customer value. This is a rare opportunity to drive meaningful impact at scale—building the platforms that enable how our brands win in a digital-first world.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
1. Lead Digital Application Modernization Across the Lower Funnel
• Define & execute the roadmap cart, checkout, account, and post-purchase digital experiences across brands.
• Modernize legacy commerce components into composable, API-first architecture.
• Enable scalable experimentation, personalization, and content orchestration.
• Establish the foundation for composable commerce, event-driven architecture, and modern data platforms.
2. Deliver Customer-Centric Digital Experiences
• Optimize checkout conversion and reduce abandonment.
• Improve shipping, loyalty and payment orchestration, speed, and transaction success rates.
• Enable seamless account and post-purchase experiences across brands.
• Partner with Product and UX to improve engagement, search relevance, and conversion metrics.
• Integrate seamlessly with Discover & Engage and Omni-Channel value streams.
• Champion accessibility as a core design principle, ensuring inclusive experiences for every customer.
3. Build and Scale High-Performance Engineering Teams
• Attract, develop, and retain top-tier engineering talent with a strong focus on inclusion and global capability building.
• Lead cross-functional product engineering squads with clear ownership and accountability.
• Embed AI, Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, test automation, and SRE best practices.
• Coach directors, engineering managers and senior engineers to deliver with speed and quality.
4. Champion Engineering Excellence and Culture
• Embed a product-engineering mindset that prioritizes business outcomes, customer experience, and rapid learning cycles.
• Drive responsible AI adoption to enhance engineering productivity, quality, and innovation.
• Improve DORA metrics and engineering performance benchmarks.
• Reduce technical debt and modernize legacy components.
• Strengthen platform reliability, security, and observability.
• Foster a culture of innovation, psychological safety, and continuous improvement across distributed teams.
5. Be a Hands-On Technical Leader and Architecture Coach
• Stay deeply engaged in architecture and design decisions—able to whiteboard, code-review, and challenge assumptions.
• Mentor senior engineers and architects to ensure alignment between business strategy and technical delivery.
• Create frameworks that balance enterprise standardization with purposeful innovation.
5. Partner Across the Business to Deliver Scalable Digital Solutions
• Collaborate with product, data, infrastructure, and business leaders to convert strategic goals into scalable tech capabilities.
• Enable differentiated experiences through personalization engines, modular front ends, real-time APIs, and fulfillment…