Director of Engineering, Fan Experience

Gametime's Fan Experience team owns how fans discover, decide on, and purchase tickets on the demand side of the marketplace across iOS, Android, mobile web, and desktop. This Director of Engineering will lead 3–4 teams within Fan Experience, a mix of teams with a dedicated engineering manager and teams without one, spanning full-stack and front-end engineers, and partner closely with the PMs and designers aligned to those teams. This is an extraordinarily hands-on role. The role reports to the VP of Product.

Responsibilities

Hiring and talent bar: build and maintain a consistently high talent bar across all teams (hiring, leveling, performance) and partner with fellow engineering directors and leaders to keep it consistent across the organization; People leadership: directly manage a mix of individual contributors and likely one or two Engineering Managers and/or Staff Engineers across 3–4 teams; Hands-on engineering management: for any team without a dedicated EM, act as its de facto engineering manager, running day-to-day rituals, unblocking the team, and staying hands-on in the codebase; AI-forward engineering: set the standard for how teams use frontier models, AI coding agents/harnesses, and new tooling to generate, review, test, and monitor code; Roadmap ownership: partner day-to-day with aligned PMs to align on, sequence, and drive the roadmap, with a point of view on what should be built; Cross-functional partnership: operate as a true peer to Product and Design; Velocity investment: partner with product to invest in tooling, domain foundation design, tech debt paydown, and better use of AI in the development loop; Risk partnership: surface risks in proposals and recommend how to mitigate or eliminate them over time; Delivery: own the engineering roadmap and execution plan across teams, balancing speed, quality, and technical debt; Cross-team technical leadership: partner with fellow directors and engineering leaders to improve the marketplace technically over time; Own teams and roadmaps tied to fan-facing feature velocity, quality, and business outcomes on the demand side of the marketplace

Requirements

Technically hands-on engineering leader who can write and review code, evaluate architecture and engineering tradeoffs, and step in as a team's engineering manager when needed; Clearly articulate and uphold a high technical bar across teams; Direct experience using frontier models, AI coding agents/harnesses, and modern tooling to guide AI-assisted work toward intended outcomes, define valid results, and establish ways to verify them; Track record of shipping consumer-facing product features that moved measurable business outcomes; Strong cross-functional partnership skills, comfortable operating as a true peer to Product and Design; Experience managing full-stack and/or front-end engineering teams, including managing Engineering Managers and/or Staff-level engineers directly, alongside individual contributors (typically 8+ years in engineering, including several years managing managers or senior ICs); Track record of building and holding a consistent hiring and performance bar across multiple teams; Familiarity with SQL/analytics (Datadog, Sentry, Honeybadger, etc.) to diagnose funnel and feature performance and tie technical performance to business outcomes; Experience leading full-stack teams with end-to-end ownership of consumer-facing web and mobile products, backend services, and APIs in a high-traffic marketplace or e-commerce environment; Strong understanding of modern front-end stacks (e.g., React and React Native), backend services, APIs, and full-stack architecture; Experience partnering with Product and Design in a fast-moving, iterative environment (feature flags, A/B testing, rapid experimentation); Data-driven approach to prioritization and technical trade-offs

Nice to have

Experience scaling or restructuring an engineering org, including splitting teams, hiring EMs, and releveling; Experience in consumer marketplaces or high-intent, high-conversion consumer apps; Track record of building or championing internal tooling/platform investments that compounded team velocity over time

Benefits

Flexible PTO; Competitive salary & equity package; Monthly Gametime credits for any event ($1,200/yr); Medical, dental, & vision insurance; Life insurance and disability benefits; Diverse family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility; 401k, HSA, pre-tax savings programs; Company off-sites and meet-ups; Wellness programs; Tenure recognition