The Director, Product Engineering is responsible for leading one or more product engineering organizations, building high-performing engineering teams, and delivering secure, scalable, reliable, and AI-enabled digital products that accelerate business outcomes.
This leader is accountable for supporting engineering strategy, product delivery, technical modernization, engineering excellence, organizational effectiveness, developer productivity, and continuous innovation across multiple products, platforms, and technology domains.
The Director partners closely with Product Management, Architecture, Platform Engineering, Quality Engineering, Security, Data & AI, Infrastructure, and Business stakeholders to support technical strategy, execute product roadmaps, modernize engineering capabilities, and continuously improve software delivery performance.
This role champions AI-assisted software engineering, cloud-native development, platform engineering, DevSecOps, engineering excellence, and modern software development practices while fostering a culture of ownership, software craftsmanship, innovation, customer obsession, accountability, and continuous learning.
Hybrid Role in Warsaw.
Summary of Responsibilities:
Lead multiple Product Engineering teams and Engineering Managers responsible for delivering enterprise products, platforms, APIs, and digital experiences aligned with business strategy and customer outcomes.
Support and execute engineering strategy, delivery models, operating principles, and execution plans that support long-term product roadmaps and organizational objectives.
Build world-class engineering organizations by recruiting, mentoring, coaching, and developing Engineering Managers, architects, technical leaders, and software engineers while establishing strong succession planning and leadership development programs.
Partner with Product Management to maximize customer value through iterative product delivery, continuous discovery, customer feedback, experimentation, and data-driven prioritization.
Drive successful execution of engineering initiatives while ensuring delivery predictability, software quality, security, scalability, operational readiness, customer satisfaction, and business value.
Lead technical modernization initiatives including cloud-native development, microservices, event-driven architectures, API-first design, platform engineering, containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and reusable engineering platforms.
Champion adoption of AI-assisted software engineering tools and intelligent development practices that improve developer productivity, code quality, automated testing, documentation, release management, and engineering effectiveness.
Partner with Data & AI teams to integrate Artificial Intelligence capabilities into customer-facing products, engineering platforms, and internal engineering workflows.
Evaluate emerging technologies, AI platforms, engineering tools, frameworks, and software development practices that accelerate innovation and improve engineering outcomes.
Support engineering excellence standards including software craftsmanship, coding standards, architecture governance, pull request quality, technical debt management, secure coding practices, release readiness, and continuous improvement.
Improve developer experience through modern engineering tooling, reusable engineering platforms, automation, self-service capabilities, and streamlined software delivery processes.
Partner with Platform Engineering, DevOps, Quality Engineering, and Security teams to support modern engineering platforms, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, automated quality gates, and secure software delivery.
Manage engineering health metrics, reliability objectives, observability, production readiness, operational support models, and continuous service improvement.
Monitor engineering performance using DORA Metrics, deployment frequency, lead time for change, change failure rate, mean…