Senior Director, Engineering

3 weeks, 6 days ago
Full-time
Executive
Software Development
Syndio

Syndio

Syndio provides expert-backed technology that helps companies measure, achieve, and sustain workplace equity. Their Workplace Equity Analytics Platform identifies and addresses pay gaps, compliance issues, and trust-building within organizations. With ...

Professional Services
51-250
Founded 2009
$83M raised

Description

  • Own the Essentials platform, including analyses, workflows, and the Data Hub that ingests and reconciles HR and compensation data.
  • Lead multiple engineering teams across the Essentials product surface and strengthen the performance of existing managers and engineers.
  • Set and drive roadmap priorities, delivery timing, and quality standards for the platform.
  • Partner closely with product, GTM, and customer success to align delivery cadence with company planning needs.
  • Drive platform modernization, including AI-augmented engineering practices and agent-friendly architecture.
  • Improve customer outcomes by reducing time-to-value for new customers and friction for existing customers.
  • Build tighter customer feedback loops to make speed and quality compound over time.
  • Hire, level, and develop the engineering team while raising the bar with each new hire.

Requirements

  • Experience owning a multi-team, customer-facing engineering organization at meaningful scale, ideally in B2B SaaS serving enterprise customers.
  • Proven track record of shipping products repeatedly and improving them in production.
  • Ability to think in systems and outcomes while managing roadmap, budget, and team priorities.
  • Hands-on experience using modern AI tooling to change how teams build software.
  • Strong partnership skills with product and GTM teams to create predictable delivery rhythms.
  • Direct, candid, and high-trust leadership style with willingness to push back when needed.
  • Bias toward action and learning over perfect planning.
  • Preferred experience in HR tech, compensation systems, HRIS integrations, or pay equity/pay analytics.
  • Preferred background scaling data-heavy platforms, including ingestion, normalization, customer-specific schemas, and multi-tenant data modeling.
  • Preferred experience leading a product through a re-platforming or AI-native rebuild.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary targeted at $217,000 - $235,000 CAD per year, depending on experience and expertise.
  • Syndio equity so employees can share in the company’s success.
  • 20 days of annual time off, plus paid sick time, safe time, and compassion leave.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Additional private medical coverage.
  • Remote-first work arrangement within commuting distance of Calgary.

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