Director of Engineering, Growth

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams and Engineering Managers across the Growth organization.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing to define Growth strategy, roadmaps, and priorities.
• Drive measurable improvements across acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and other key growth opportunities.
• Build a strong experimentation culture, enabling teams to rapidly test, learn, iterate, and scale successful ideas.
• Drive execution across complex, cross-functional initiatives while improving predictability and time-to-market.
• Develop Engineering Managers, senior technical leaders, and future leaders across the organization.
• Define and evolve the technical strategy and architecture needed to support Poshmark's long-term growth.
• Maintain a high bar for engineering excellence, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, performance, and operational ownership.
• Champion incremental development and frequent production deployments, enabling teams to learn and deliver value quickly.
• Balance product delivery with investments in technical health, scalability, developer productivity, and platform modernization.
• Own organizational planning, staffing, hiring, talent development, and succession planning.
• Foster a high-performing engineering culture built around clear ownership, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and end-to-end ownership.

Requirements

Required

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building high-scale consumer products or distributed systems.
• 7+ years of engineering leadership experience, including experience leading Engineering Managers and multiple engineering teams.
• Proven track record delivering complex, high-impact product and technology initiatives.
• Strong technical depth with the ability to participate meaningfully in architecture, system design, and technical strategy discussions.
• Experience building experimentation-driven products and using data to make product and engineering decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product, Design, Data Science, Analytics, Marketing, and other business functions.
• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and scalable system design.
• Experience developing engineering leaders and building high-performing teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior technical, product, and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment with ambiguity and evolving priorities.

Preferred

• Experience leading Growth Engineering in marketplaces, e-commerce, social, or other high-scale consumer products, including globally distributed teams.
• Experience with Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) and MarTech ecosystems, including segmentation, lifecycle marketing, personalization, attribution, analytics, and cross-channel activation.
• Experience building and scaling experimentation, personalization, and AI/ML-driven growth capabilities to improve customer acquisition, engagement, and retention.
• Demonstrated success driving engineering and organizational transformation, including modernizing platforms, practices, and ways of working.