Engineering Director
About this role
<h3>Engineering Director</h3><p>TL;DR: <strong>Lead the teams building the future of workforce management.</strong> Quinyx is hiring an Engineering Director to report directly to our CTO and co-own the roadmap for a core product area. You will lead a distributed team of roughly 40 engineers, own your P&L, and spearhead our AI transformation. We need a strategic, commercially minded leader who can build high-performing cultures and drive real business impact in a high-growth SaaS environment.</p><h5><strong>🎯 </strong><span><strong>About the role </strong></span></h5><p>The Engineering Director is one of our most senior and impactful leadership positions. Reporting directly to the CTO and sitting as a core member of the Senior Engineering Leadership Team, you will co-lead a product area alongside a Product Director - jointly accountable for its strategy, roadmap, and delivery.<br><br>You will lead a group of multidisciplinary delivery teams across multiple offices and geographies, providing technical vision, engineering direction, and a culture of excellence. With a team of 40 engineers, you will be a key voice in shaping how Quinyx builds and delivers world-class workforce management software.<br><br>This role is for someone who thinks strategically and acts decisively - a leader who is as comfortable in a board-level conversation about P&L impact as they are mentoring an engineering manager or driving a technical architecture decision.<br><br>As Engineering Director, you will be a champion and architect of Quinyx’s AI journey - not just adopting tools, but fundamentally transforming how our engineering teams operate, innovate, and deliver value.</p><h5><strong>📝 </strong><span><strong>What you’ll do</strong></span></h5><ul><li><p>Be a core member of the R&D Senior Management Team, co-owning the product area roadmap with the Product Director - balancing short and long-term goals, challenging product proposals, and contributing to decisions that span the whole organisation.</p></li><li><p>Work closely with the CTO to shape Quinyx's engineering vision, contributing to technical strategy, platform direction, and the company's growth agenda.</p></li><li><p>Oversee all development initiatives within the product area, defining best practices, KPIs, and scalable delivery processes that ensure high-quality output across geographically distributed teams.</p></li><li><p>Champion engineering quality at every level - from architecture and code standards through to deployment, reliability, and operational performance.</p></li><li><p>Lead, mentor, and develop your engineering managers and senior engineers, managing resourcing, resolving conflicts, and fostering a high-performance culture grounded in trust and accountability.</p></li><li><p>Own the budget for your engineering function and build cohesion across distributed and offshore teams - ensuring everyone feels connected to the mission.</p></li><li><p>Accountable for your product area's contribution to Quinyx's P&L, partnering across Product, Design, Sales, and Customer Success to ensure engineering is a strategic enabler of growth — including cross-sell and upsell opportunities.</p></li></ul><h5><strong>✅ </strong><span><strong>What we’re looking for</strong></span></h5><ul><li><p style="text-align:justify;">A proven track record leading large engineering organisations in a high-growth SaaS environment, with deep experience across the full software development lifecycle and strong budget management skills.</p></li><li><p>Genuine enthusiasm for AI and emerging technologies, with practical experience or a clear plan to harness them to transform engineering productivity and product quality.</p></li></ul><p style="text-align:justify;">💡 <span><strong>Desired personality traits </strong></span></p><ul><li><p>Exceptional communication skills and strategic clarity - able to hold the long-term vision and near-term priorities simultaneously, inspiring and aligning engineers, peers, and executives across cultures and geographies.</p></li><li><p>A collaborative, consultative style paired with resilience and pragmatism - you build consensus, challenge constructively, and navigate ambiguity with sound judgement.</p></li><li><p>Commercially minded and externally focused, you champion inclusive team cultures and understand that great eng