Sr. Director, Engineering

At Amperity, we’re an AI-first company helping the world’s leading brands create personalized customer experiences that build loyalty and fuel growth. Our AI-powered Customer Data Cloud,  built on multi-patented technology, enables more than 400 global brands, including Alaska Airlines, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, and DICK’S Sporting Goods, to turn customer data into a competitive advantage.

We unlock the full value of customer data with simplicity and speed. AI is at the core of our platform and the way we work — from powering advanced identity resolution and predictive analytics to streamlining internal workflows and decision-making. It’s not just a capability; it’s part of our DNA.

Our team thrives on curiosity, collaboration, and transparency, fostering a culture where everyone can contribute, learn, and grow. We welcome talented individuals from diverse backgrounds to help us remove data bottlenecks, accelerate business impact, and push the boundaries of what AI can do for the world’s most innovative companies.

With offices in Seattle, New York City, London, and Melbourne, you’ll join a fast-growing team tackling critical challenges at the intersection of AI, data, and customer experience. Ready to make an impact? Let’s talk.

The Role

As Senior Director of Engineering for Activation at Amperity, you will lead the teams responsible for how marketers connect with their customers through our platform. You will shape both the technical execution and the broader strategy for delivering intuitive, customer experiences. Your scope spans multiple teams across geographies and time zones, and you will ensure they operate as a cohesive organization.

You bring a combination of technical depth and organizational leadership, with the ability to engage across the technical stack from high-performance query systems to connector technologies, all while also guiding end-to-end-user experiences that aim to be delightful. You'll set the vision and execution path for how we evolve our Activation capabilities, driving debate, and accountability at every level. Just as important, you'll be invested in building great teams and future leaders — mentoring across the company and promoting a culture of empowerment, inclusion, and continuous improvement. You will report to the SVP, Engineering.

Interesting Problems

• At Amperity, we solve some of the most challenging and impactful technical problems in customer data management. As a Senior Director, you'll lead teams working on:
• Empower users with complex, real-time querying capabilities, helping them obtain meaningful insights.
• Build deep integrations with industry-leading platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, and several paid-media connectors, ensuring our solutions fit into the broader data ecosystem.
• Deliver enriched data assets and insights to diverse systems, allowing our clients to unlock new value from their data.
• Create intuitive, powerful user experiences that help our customers produce insights, and measure results.
• Build and nurture teams that support each other across a distributed working environment, embodying our values of trust, innovation, curiosity, and accountability.

About You

• 15+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years leading managers of managers.
• Experience leading multiple teams across geographies and time zones, aligning them to a shared vision and measurable goals.
• Experience mentoring managers and individual contributors, and for building diverse, inclusive, and psychologically safe teams.
• Guide organizational learning and continuous improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
• Experienced in overseeing and delivering complex projects and making decisions that shape our long-term success.
• Focus on operational excellence, with the ability to establish and champion group-wide metrics and processes that improves organizational health.
• Technical credibility across domains such as query systems and connectors — with the ability to contribute to strategy while empowering your teams to manage execution.
• Experience recruiting and retaining top talent, and at leading organizations through evolving priorities and complex dependencies.

Location

Seattle, WA 

Our hybrid work model includes three days in the office each week, providing a mix of in-person collaboration and remote flexibility

Compensation

Base Salary:  $200,000-$280,000. Within our pay range, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerat