Director of Engineering - Core Experiences

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. 

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

How you can help make a better world of work

Are you a visionary leader with a passion for engineering excellence and deep technical experience in platform engineering and building shared services?

We are seeking a Director of Engineering for our Core Experiences Camp who can lead our efforts in building and scaling our cutting-edge platform capabilities. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our platform. We’ve got a bold vision for where we want to take our platform and need someone who can lead us on this journey. 

Your teams will help drive one of the most innovative features, combining our People Science knowledge with our employee surveys and performance data using the latest artificial intelligence technique. A real AI use case that can drive meaningful benefit to 25 million employees. Your teams will also drive core elements of the platform, including home, navigation and rolling out our design language.

As the Director of Engineering within a Camp leadership team, you will be accountable for all aspects of the engagement and growth of our talented engineers, delivery of the engineering roadmap, and the stability and quality of the Camp’s production assets. You will be an important conduit for ensuring the Core Experience Camp's engineering is done in collaboration with the wider engineering organisation, bringing all parts of our platform closer together.

As part of this team of amazing humans, 

You will 

• Collaborate with the rest of your camp leadership team to ensure we have a structure that supports effective and efficient execution.
• Work closely with the product management and design functions within your camp to ensure that your teams all have roadmaps that are appropriately estimated, viable and coherent.
• In collaboration with our Chief Engineer, be accountable for all technical decisions made within your camp, and how they align to and support our overall tech vision.
• Present clear and compelling plans that align with the group-wide product strategy.
• Share, collaborate and align camp-level technical road-maps and strategies with senior engineering leads beyond your camp. Promote the sharing of technical decisions and knowledge.
• In collaboration with our Talent Acquisition team, identify and hire to address the technical gaps within your camp and ensure that we are building diverse teams.
• Directly maintain and grow your leadership team to be curious, intentional, and outcome-focused.
• Take accountability for the technology hosting budget for all technical assets owned by the camp, ensuring appropriate tradeoffs are being made.
• Take accountability for meeting all security best practices, government regulatory requirements and ISO/SOC2 compliance for all the assets owned by the camp.

You have

• Extensive experience with platform engineering in fast-growth tech companies
• A solid understanding of LLMs using RAG techniques
• Frontend experience with a focus on design systems
• Experience leading engineering teams of more than 20 engineers during the “scale-up” phase, ideally in the SaaS space.
• Proven experience in connecting engineering to business outcomes, with a lens to the customer.
• Understanding of operational excellence and how to improve the system of work to execute as effectively as possible.
• Technical experience at all levels of the stack, from the low level all the way up to complete distributed architecture experience.
• Exceptional people skills and experience leading multiple teams, as well as managing engineering leads and principal engineers.
• Strong communication skills, both in one-to-one situations and one-to-many in a variety of mediums.
• Been around engineering teams for long enough to know which questions to ask and to recognise when something is amiss.
• A remarkable eye for talent and solid track record of developing engineers.

You are

• A strategic thinker. You are someone who understands that we play the long game and that meaningful progress takes time to achieve.
• An effective coach. You recognise that the key to success is to work through others, supporting and enabling leaders.
• Accountable, with a strong bias for action. You set clear goals and expectations for yourself and others and create an environment for teams to thrive and deliver outcomes.
• A strong leader. You are someone who can communicate a clear vision and strategy to everyone around it and create the structures and scaffolding necessary to execute successfully.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are: 

• Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
• Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
• Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
• Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
• Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
• Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
• Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
• Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
• 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
• MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only) 

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. 

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding roles in Germany). These questions are completely optional, but your participation truly helps. By sharing this anonymous information, you support our efforts to build a more inclusive and equitable hiring process—and help us hold ourselves accountable to that commitment. Your responses are entirely confidential and will not impact hiring decisions.

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