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Compensation
The salary range listed is for the level at which this job has been scoped. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership, and a comprehensive and generous benefits package.
- Salary period
- yearly
- Location basis
- true
- Equity
- competitive equity ownership
Benefits
- Scribd Flex (flexible work model)
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Mental health support and disability coverage
- Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals
- Paid parental leave and family support benefits
- Retirement matching and employee equity
- Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities
- Wellness and home office stipends
- Complimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of products
- Enterprise access to leading AI tools
Tech stack
Location
US, Canada
Work setup
- Employment
- full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Remote policy
- ON_SITE or REMOTE (as shown in the posting header)
- Remote scope
- unclear
- Travel
- unclear
- Visa
- unclear
- Authorization
- unclear
Role details
Responsibilities
- Oversee an organization of ~25 engineers across three teams
- Directly manage a growth platform team
- Provide strategic and organizational leadership across the full group
- Design and ship growth systems
- Partner with leaders in Product, Performance Marketing, Partnerships, Data Platform, and Analytics to build reliable foundations
- Translate growth strategy into high-leverage technical capabilities
- Define the growth engineering strategy. Audit the current state of our growth tooling, data pipelines, experimentation infrastructure, lifecycle messaging, analytics, and attribution. Develop a technical roadmap in close partnership with product leadership.
- Build and lead the growth platform team. Take direct management of a 5-person team focused on our growth platform. Establish engineering practices and define the team charter. Create team identity and build the team to full strength.
- Lead a high-performing growth engineering organization. Provide organizational leadership across all three growth engineering teams. Assess team boundaries, build alignment on shared engineering standards, and strengthen the culture of experimentation rigor. Maintain engineering quality while strategically balancing speed and technical debt.
- Drive agentic engineering adoption. Lead the adoption of agentic engineering practices within the growth organization. Identify how AI can accelerate delivery while maintaining high quality.
- Be a strategic partner. Serve as the engineering counterpart to your peer product leader in the growth pillar. Build strong relationships across Product, Design, Marketing, Analytics, Data Science, and Partnerships. Create visibility into growth engineering's impact through business reviews, roadmap updates, and clear reporting that connects technical work to business outcomes.
- Raise the bar across Scribd engineering. Contribute to the broader engineering organization through leadership forums, architecture reviews, hiring, and engineering-wide initiatives. Model engineering excellence and be a collaborative peer leader among Scribd's engineering directors.
Requirements
- Experienced leader to oversee an organization of ~25 engineers across three teams
- People-first and visionary leadership
- Passionate about growth engineering and maximizing the potential of an already high-performing team
- Deep technical expertise in designing and shipping growth systems
Application
Use the provided job description & application link.
- Portfolio
- unclear
- GitHub
- unclear
- Cover letter
- unclear
- Apply flow
- ats
Company context
advance human understanding
- Product
- knowledge platform and related content subscription products
- Industry
- knowledge company
- HQ
- San Francisco
- Size
- 400M+ pieces of content; 250M+ monthly visitors; 30M+ hours read per month; 2M+ paying subscribers
Contact
adrian
adrian at scribd.com
Description
Scribd is a knowledge company on a mission to advance human understanding. The company is hiring for a key role: Director, Growth Engineering. The role oversees an organization of ~25 engineers across three teams, directly managing a growth platform team while providing strategic and organizational leadership across the full group. It is described as a high-ownership leadership role for a Director who is people-first and visionary, passionate about growth engineering and maximizing the potential of an already high-performing team. The role requires deep technical expertise in designing and shipping growth systems. The director partners closely with leaders in Product, Performance Marketing, Partnerships, Data Platform, and Analytics to build reliable foundations and translate growth strategy into high-leverage technical capabilities. Job description & application are provided via a Scribd/Ashby link. The posting also states that questions can be reached by email at adrian at scribd.com, and recruiters/agencies should not contact him.
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