Director of Product Engineering

LSO Media Group is a diversified company with consolidated interests in media, entertainment, hospitality, credit and financial counseling, and consumer goods procurement. We provide corporate oversight, strategic direction and shared resources across our portfolio, supporting the development of our businesses and investment in new opportunities.

Director of Product & Engineering, LSO Workplace

Employment: Full-time

Reports to:
Vice President, Software Products

Proposed annual base salary: $160,000–$210,000 USD

Location and work arrangement: To be discussed during the hiring process.

LSO Media Group is seeking a Director of Product & Engineering to lead the development and launch of LSO Workplace, an integrated workplace platform being developed for small and midsize businesses.

LSO Workplace will bring together workplace management, operational insights, automation and employee services. Its development will focus on the practical needs of smaller organizations, including specialized workflows that broad business software often overlooks. You will help determine which needs the product addresses first and lead the team responsible for delivering it.

Reporting to the Vice President, Software Products, you will lead specialists in frontend engineering, backend engineering, AI and automation, and workplace systems integrations. You will also work with shared specialists in product design, quality assurance and cloud reliability.

We are looking for a leader who can use AI development tools to accelerate useful work while taking responsibility for the quality, security and maintainability of the resulting software.

• Define the initial product scope and development roadmap through conversations with prospective customers, research into their workflows and clear business priorities.
• Lead daily product and engineering work, translating requirements into achievable milestones and resolving technical or delivery obstacles.
• Recruit, manage and develop the Workplace engineering team, establishing clear responsibilities and practical development standards.
• Guide the platform’s architecture, including its application interfaces, backend services, data models, integrations and cloud infrastructure.
• Establish effective use of AI coding assistants and development agents, with expectations for code review, testing, documentation and protection of confidential information.
• Develop workplace capabilities such as service requests, resource booking, administrative workflows, employee communications and usage insights, prioritizing features through customer validation.
• Oversee integrations with relevant business applications and, where supported by customer needs, workplace sensors and connected systems.
• Build security, accessibility and reliability into the product, including appropriate user permissions, separation of customer data and controls over how workplace information is collected and used.
• Work with shared design, quality assurance and cloud specialists to validate usability, test critical workflows and prepare releases.
• Lead pilot development, respond to customer feedback and establish the documentation, monitoring and support processes needed for launch.
• Report progress, staffing needs, operating costs and significant risks to the Vice President, Software Products.

• Substantial experience building commercial software, typically seven or more years, including experience leading engineers or a product development team.
• A demonstrated ability to take a product or major feature from an early concept through development, customer validation and production release.
• Strong technical knowledge of modern web applications, backend services, databases, APIs and cloud…