Director of Engineering Prague, Praha

Director of Engineering

When we started in 2014, our focus was on product managers in smaller teams who lacked a great product management tool. Today, we are the leading product management _platform_, and as we continue to grow, we are now helping more and more enterprise companies with thousands of employees to build products that matter.
We believe Productboards greatest differentiator is enabling our customers to collect, understand, and act upon data from the market and empower them to organize them into Insights, understand their customers, and align their company around the most impactful opportunities.
About the team
Join a team that’s not just building a product, but shaping the future of Productboard through the strategic platformization of our solution. This isn’t merely about adding features; it’s about architecting a scalable, flexible, and user-centric ecosystem that enhances every function across our platform. As the Director of Platform Engineering and Engineering Site Lead for our Prague office, you will be at the helm of this transformation, driving innovation and ensuring our platform evolves into a robust foundation for product teams globally.
In this pivotal role, you will lead a high-performing team of 20-30 engineers, including seasoned managers and emerging talent. Additionally, you will provide dotted-line leadership to local teams across various engineering domains outside the direct scope of platform engineering, ensuring alignment and synergy across our Prague office. Your leadership will be critical in overseeing the development and optimization of key platform components, such as our public APIs, comprehensive integration frameworks, and advanced query engine. These elements are crucial to scaling our operations and delivering precision-driven data experiences to our users.
Moreover, you will support our Permissions and Governance team, overseeing all enterprise security features, including Authentication/Authorization (AuthN/AuthZ), Custom Roles, Audit Logs, and more. This team ensures our platform adheres to the highest standards of security and compliance, empowering us to serve enterprise clients with confidence.
This role is a unique opportunity for a visionary leader passionate about driving large-scale innovation. You will have the chance to influence the direction of our platform, tackle complex challenges, and deliver solutions that power diverse, cutting-edge product experiences. If you thrive in a dynamic environment where ownership, collaboration, and problem-solving are paramount, and are excited by the prospect of leading a key engineering site, this position offers a deeply rewarding and impactful career path.
**About having the right experience**
**Driving Technical Strategy**
As a prominent leader in our Prague office, you must have a proven track record in establishing and driving technical strategy. You will need to excel in managing and guiding top-tier platform teams, where scale and resilience are crucial. Balancing flexibility, velocity and resilience. You will help teams make informed trade-offs that align with business objectives. Additionally, fostering a vibrant office engineering culture in Prague and Brno through initiatives like brown bag sessions and technical meetups will be key for your success. Collaboration with Talent Acquisition to strengthen our public engineering brand in the Czech Republic will also be a significant aspect of this role.
**People Management**
On the people management side, you should have substantial experience in managing and mentoring managers and senior ICs, helping them reach their full potential. You will be responsible for hiring and retaining top talent, ensuring that our teams are high-performing and positively engaged. Creating an environment where individuals and teams thrive is essential, especially in the context of leading hybrid teams that include both in-office and remote members across Europe.
**Process Improvement**
Furthermore, you will be expected to make a substantial contribution to refining and enhancing engineering processes for your team and globally contribute to improving the global organization. This includes identifying opportunities for process improvements, implementing best practices, and ensuring that workflows are optimized for efficiency and **effectiveness**. Your role will involve driving process changes that support both the technical and people aspects of the team, ensuring that our engineering practices are continually evolving and improving while ensuring that processes do no become the objectives, but serves a purpose.
**About you**
On top of classic hard and soft skill needed to be generally successful as a engineering leader, we need someone that has the following criteria:
- **Product mindset**: We do not want generalists. Productboard has been build by people passionate about the mission to improve Product organization create better products. It is important to have a leader with

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