Creative Engineering Director
On-siteSan Jose, California, United States
Job Summary
Define the vision for complex, scalable design systems across websites, emails, social, and in-platform interfaces while setting strategy for Dynamic Creative Optimization. Lead and mentor Creative Engineering Leads, Associate Creative Engineering Directors, and engineers to build a robust leadership pipeline, championing compliance, accessibility, and security standards. Represent the function with clients to win pitches and translate technical work into compelling narratives for high-stakes presentations. Pilot new tools and processes to drive innovation, ensuring AI serves as a practical tool for improving workflows and solving client challenges. Manage and enforce the bar for technical craft across all teams, staying close to the work to coach fixes and lead by example.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in creative technology, front-end development, or a related field
- track record of leading teams and functions
- Proven experience managing and mentoring managers (CE Leads, ACEDs) as well as individual engineers
- Deep expertise in design systems architecture
- experience defining vision and strategy across websites, emails, social, and in-platform formats
- Experience using AI to solve client challenges and improve workflows
- point of view on where the function should invest next
- A strong presentation narrative for internal and external audiences
- ability to walk a room of engineers or a room of C-suite clients through the same idea
- Experience representing a function in new business and client relationships
- track record of building and scaling teams, processes, and standards across accounts
- work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week
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