Senior Director of Engineering, Wealth & Investing

Overview

About The Role This is a high-leverage leadership role combining platform infrastructure that multiplies engineering effectiveness across the entire organization with ownership of our most engaged content verticals—Barron's, Market Watch, Investors Business Daily, Financial News London, and Private Equity News.

As Senior Director of Engineering, you will lead our Wealth & Investing portfolio and Product Platform Engineering teams. In this unique opportunity, you'll own the platform teams that set standards and the product teams actively building with AI-driven development practices, giving you direct insight into what works and the ability to scale those practices across the organization. You will have 4-6 direct reports and oversee an organization of ~90 Engineers.

You will report to VP Engineering, Products & Platforms.

About The Team Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers and users. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints.

Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.

Your Role Will Entail

• Define long-term technical strategy and organizational structure for Product Platform and W&I engineering
• Drive company-wide technology messaging and represent the organization in external forums and executive discussions
• Shape long-term stakeholder alignment, ensuring technology strategy supports broader business goals
• Contribute to solving systemic, company-wide engineering challenges

• Lead the migration of all Wealth & Investing brands onto our latest technology stacks
• Define the consolidation strategy that enables shared investment and accelerated delivery across brands
• Ensure platform capabilities developed for W&I can be leveraged across all of engineering

• Bring AI development tools and practices to the organization at scale
• Work directly with teams already using AI tools to understand what's effective
• Codify successful patterns into platform tooling and standards that benefit the entire engineering org

• Lead a large-scale engineering organization focused on multiple domains
• Develop senior leaders (Directors, Senior Managers) through mentorship and coaching
• Define talent strategy, influencing hiring and succession planning across your organization
• Guide resource allocation to support business priorities and growth

• Align technology investments with company-wide impact and business strategy
• Drive collaboration at an enterprise level, ensuring Technology is integrated into company-wide decisions
• Work consistently with abstract ideas and situations across functional areas
• Anticipate factors that could influence strategies and company position in the market

• Interact with internal and external executive-level management, requiring negotiation of critical matters
• Drive enterprise-level collaboration, breaking down silos between Platform, Product, and Brand teams
• Partner with Product and Design leadership on long-term planning and roadmap alignment

You Have:

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with progressive leadership responsibility
• Experience leading both platform/infrastructure and product engineering teams
• Track record of scaling engineering organizations and developing engineering managers into strong leaders
• Experience driving technology modernization and platform consolidation initiatives

• Experience defining talent strategy and succession planning at scale
• Skill in navigating complex stakeholder relationships and negotiating at the executive level

• Master-level technical proficiency—able to guide technical strategy…