Director of Engineering, Search Full Time

Summary:

The Director of Engineering, Search at Mapbox leads the evolution of search services for a leading real-time location platform. Mapbox equips over 3.5 million developers with tools for navigation and location-aware solutions, serving organizations globally. This role drives technical vision and strategy to enhance search capabilities, delighting customers with innovative experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Own a customer/consumer-focused experience for search and discovery in different modalities (text, voice, etc).
• Deliver APIs and data at scale, ensuring seamless integration and a top-tier developer experience.
• Develop and launch SDKs for B2B search solutions, enhancing integration and search functionality.
• Own the technical vision, lead the strategy and guide the team to execute towards building the future of Search.
• Collaborate with product, design, and key stakeholders to drive impactful search decisions that shape business outcomes.
• Coordinate deadlines, set pricing, develop a marketing strategy, and enable support teams.
• Collaborate closely with product teams to identify customer needs and develop a strategic plan to address their challenges.
• Lead and develop engineering teams by driving recruitment, retention, mentoring, and continuously enhancing team capabilities.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of leadership experience: Managed technical teams and drove strategic initiatives in diverse organizational settings.
• Strong academic foundation: A Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Technical domain expertise: Prior experience in delivering APIs, SDKs, and/or iOS/Android Apps would be valuable in this role.
• Proven ability to conceptualize and deliver B2B2C or consumer-facing products.
• Ownership & execution: Experience in a high-accountability environment, with the ability to build, operationalize, and scale technically distributed organizations (engineering, product, data scientists, etc.).
• Product Launch Experience: Proven track record of successfully bringing products to market, driving adoption, and generating revenue.
• Skilled in coordinating deadlines, setting pricing, developing marketing strategies, and enabling support teams.
• Data-informed mindset: You believe in the value of data-informed decision-making and strive to measure things that are not straightforward but essential.
• You also have the right instincts to make speedy decisions in the absence of perfect & comprehensive data.
• Customer focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf.
• Operational excellence: Cultivate a culture of quality and continuous improvement, ensuring a balance between maintaining high standards and delivering at speed.
• Strong communication skills: Able to articulate complex ideas clearly and concisely, both in writing and verbally, to diverse audiences.
• Skilled at developing a realistic yet ambitious product roadmap and effectively communicating it across the organization and to the market.
• Hire & elevate: Great leaders understand the importance of hiring the best talent and creating a culture where team members can learn & grow with the organization.
• You demonstrate investment in coaching and stretching peers across all levels.
• Other Valuable Experience: Experience managing P&L and balancing budgets with investments to drive growth and efficiency.

Benefits:

• Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $269,875- $365,125 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor.
• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work.
• We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.