Senior Director, Engineering

Summary

Join Vidyard as a Senior Director of Engineering and lead high-performing remote engineering teams. Reporting to the CTO, you will shape and drive the execution of the Engineering Department, collaborating with Design and Product teams. This role requires 3-5+ years as a Director of Engineering, ideally in a remote environment, and 5+ years managing and growing engineering teams. You will leverage industry expertise to lead and scale world-class engineering practices. This remote role is open to candidates in Canada and the US. Vidyard offers competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, flexible hours, unlimited vacation, and various wellness and development programs.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years as a Director of Engineering, ideally in a remote work environment
• 5+ years experience managing and growing engineering teams
• Advanced knowledge and strategic understanding of industry trends, systems and best practices including ways to leverage emerging technologies in AI to advance engineering team productivity
• Demonstrated success in building high-performing teams, fostering continuous improvement, and executing strategic change
• Proven ability to leverage data and insights to inform decision-making, assess risk, and drive impact
• Strong ability to build relationships and influence key stakeholders across all levels of an organization

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams to optimize for customer value and innovation
• Partner with executive leadership, senior leaders and managers to establish and execute the strategic goals for Engineering in alignment with company objectives
• Lead cross-functional collaborations with Product and Design leadership to support the growth and evolution of Vidyard’s platform
• Be a key member of our Senior Leadership Team, working with your peers to make high-stakes decisions that impact key initiatives across the organization
• Leveraging your industry expertise, lead and scale world-class engineering practices which drive optimal performance, quality, and efficiency
• Work closely with your direct reports to foster a high performance culture with a focus on customer obsession
• Provide strategic guidance to managers and multi-faceted teams, ensuring operational excellence across complex projects with significant organizational impact

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Vue.js, React, MySQL and AWS

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Comprehensive, flexible benefits on day one
• Wellness allowance to spend on what's important to you
• Flexible hours + unlimited vacation + programs to support travel while working, enabling you to live your best life
• Access to Inkblot, a digital mental health platform + $1,500/person/year for mental health coverage
• Allowance to support your ongoing growth and development
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid volunteer hours
• Employee resource groups to empower and drive change at Vidyard and in our communities
• RRSP match
• Stock options
• Flexible holiday program
• Home office stipend
• Flexibility to work in the place that brings out your best: whether you thrive in the comfort of your home office, or are local to, and prefer the energy of our collaboration space in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, there is flexibility for all. Although we default to remote-first there will be occasional in-person meetings/events purposefully designed for connection and collaboration