Senior Director of Engineering

About the Role

Rocket Travel by Agoda is looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to join our growing Engineering team. In this role, you’ll work closely with our VP and SVP of Engineering to define and execute on the strategic direction of our platform teams. 

Rocket Travel by Agoda is a place where you:

• Work with a group of intrinsically motivated people with a track record for building successful new businesses from scratch.
• Embody curiosity, being an owner, taking moonshots, and rising together. We live and build products by these values every day. 
• Own decisions and take action that can be implemented in a matter of days (or hours).
• Get inspired and encouraged to vacation faster, with an annual vacation stipend.
• Receive a competitive compensation package, including bonus, 401k with match, flexible vacation time, maternity and paternity benefits, health, and dental insurance.
• Total Compensation is based on qualifications and experience  
• Can have a flexible work schedule. We have great offices in Chicago’s West Loop and in NYC’s Empire State building, we have a hybrid team, and a flexible work environment
• Share your passion for travel with equally adventurous teammates. 
• Work within the largest online travel company in the world. Rocket Travel by Agoda creates B2C and B2B2C travel products and is part of Booking Holdings (BKNG). We have many worldwide partners and a diversified business. Despite the world’s current situation, Booking Holdings has been rated the healthiest company in travel, and Rocket itself is already seeing travel demand surpass pre-pandemic levels

As a Senior Director of Engineering at Rocket Travel, you will: 

• Assist the VP of Engineering to define and execute the strategic direction of our platform and launch teams . You see the bigger picture, you take ownership of your business and ensure your team delivers to the strategy. 
• Deliver integrated solutions working with engineering, product and other technology leaders across our diverse set of global teams.
• Track and Report project progress to the business leadership.
• Manage and coach engineering directors. Some directors will be very new to the role while others have experience. 
• Guide your leaders to deadlines across multiple projects. There will be short turnarounds for some projects, and longer engagements for others. You know how to help focus the teams. You know when to be hands on and when to step back and let your team take the reins.
• Continuously improve team processes, tooling and quality.  You can spot inefficiencies and problems. You will engage teams to address the root cause of issues on a continuous basis to drive success and engagement.

About you:

• You’ve worked with global teams. You have a minimum of 3-5 years of management experience and have proven successes leading at least 3 teams across multiple geographies. 
• You exhibit strong leadership and mentoring skills. You have directly managed multiple engineering directors with teams numbering more than 50 engineers across multiple time zones. You’ve coached on career growth, team resiliency, and overall performance management providing candid feedback as a means to growth. 
• You seek feedback. You have a growth mindset, are comfortable soliciting thoughts from others, and are curious to learn from a spectrum of perspectives. 
• You balance exploration with execution. Exploration and execution are both key to building innovative experiences. You understand when it’s time to explore and when it’s time to deliver.  
• You get architecture. You’ve been a driver in large and complex technical designs and planning. You know how to get to a solution balancing many different voices, opinions and needs.  
• You have experience devising cost benefit analysis of projects. You have had to justify and share with senior leaders the ROI of projects. 
• You’ve exposed inefficiencies and developed processes resulting in more than a 20% ROI on a $2m or greater budget. 
• You have experience in a highly agile DevOps culture and have guided the creation of agile CI/CD processes dep