Senior Director of Engineering, Growth

Change.org is searching for a Senior Director of Engineering to partner with our VP of Product and senior leaders to accelerate measurable, sustainable growth across the Change.org platform—driving increased revenue, deeper user engagement, and long-term impact at scale. You will report to our CTO. As a key member of our Engineering team, you’ll deliver signature and revenue growth by leading a data-driven engineering team, co-owning growth strategy and execution, aligning cross-functional efforts, and building infrastructure for rapid experimentation and iteration, while participating in the on-call rotation.

We’re a social impact business (a public benefit company), and the world's largest social change platform with 100 million users, 40,000+ campaigns launched on the site every month, and a 100% user-generated revenue model. Our users win campaigns for change once every hour. We’re working for a world where no one is powerless, and where creating change is a part of everyday life. We’re just getting started and hope you’ll join us!

From mobilizing over 5 million people to investigate the fires in the Amazon, to mobilizing nearly 3 million against war and famine in Yemen, to large-scale mobilizations for the people of Iran and against the war in Ukraine, and calling for Racial Justice in the US, many movements were born on Change.org. Dozens of local, national, and international victories are happening every day thanks to the strength of our members who are changing the lives of people around the world. We want to help them go even further and we need your help! 

Key Outcomes: 

• Deliver significant increases in both signature volume and revenue through technical and product-driven growth initiatives.
• Build and lead a deeply engaged, data-driven engineering team focused on experimentation and outcomes.
• Establish a strong, trusted partnership with the VP of Product—jointly owning growth strategy and execution.
• Influence cross-functional alignment and company-wide direction on growth—establishing best practices and driving coordination across engineering, product, and marketing.
• Strengthen or build infrastructure to support rapid experimentation, measurement, and iteration across the growth team.
• This job is expected to participate in our on call rotation.

The most important core competencies for the role are: 

• Growth Engineering Expertise – Demonstrated success leading technical initiatives that drive user and revenue growth.
• Experimentation & Data Mindset – Deep experience with A/B testing, growth loops, and metrics-driven iteration.
• Cross-functional Partnership – Proven ability to translate product and marketing goals into scalable engineering execution.
• Team Building & Culture – Skilled at building high-performing teams, fostering engagement, and developing strong engineering culture.
• Strategic Communication – Able to navigate ambiguity and communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Leadership Through Ambiguity - Comfortable navigating uncertainty; skilled at identifying high-potential opportunities, validating ideas quickly, and scaling successful experiments into durable systems.

Target experience: 

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including hands-on coding and architecture.
• 7+ years in engineering leadership roles, including managing managers.
• Proven experience leading growth engineering teams or cross-functional squads focused on user and revenue growth.
• Experience scaling products across diverse or international user bases.

Interested? Great! Here's what you should know:

This is a full time role. We’re open to hiring in the following US locations: Alaska (AK), Arizona (AZ), California (CA), Connecticut (CT), District of Columbia (DC), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Illinois (IL), Iowa (IA), Kansas (KS), Maryland (MD), Massachusetts (MA), Minnesota (MN), Missouri (MO), New Jersey (NJ), New York (NY), North Carolina (NC), Oregon (OR), Pennsylvania (PA), Rhode Island (RI), Texas (TX), Vermont (VT), Virginia (VA), Washington (WA), Wisconsin (WI). We're also open to hiring in Canada (AB, BC, ON), and Mexico.

Our compensation philosophy is based on pay equity. All of our salaries are determined before we launch a role – they are based on a predetermined salary scale, the level on that scale and the cost of labor for that location. 

The annual salary of a Senior Director of Engineering is:

• US
  • SF/NYC: 315,000 USD
  • Austin/Boston/Seattle/LA/DC/Chicago: 299,500 USD
  • All other cities: 268,000 USD
• Canada 
  • Vancouver/Toronto: 295,500 CAD
  • Victoria/Calgary: 274,000 CAD
  • All other cities: 270,000 CAD
• Mexico
  • All cities: 2,305,000 MXN

Benefits and perks also vary based on location. 

Our evaluation process is as follows:

• 45 min Recruiter Screen
• 45 min interview with the CTO
• 2.5 hour interview loop with our VP Product, Senior Director of Tech Ops, and Director of Engineering
• 45 min final interview with the CTO

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting amazing candidates like you, so please don’t hesitate to apply—we’d love to meet you. We also know it’s rare for someone to meet 100% of the qualifications. Please apply anyway!

We actively encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and perspectives to apply. At Change.org, we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We invest in programs to support our diverse workforce, offer inclusive onboarding experiences and affinity groups, celebrate the heritage of our staff, provide training on working across differences, and maintain fair and transparent salary scales. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, or culture.

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