Director of Quality Innovation (Permanent)

Location: London (hybrid) Level: Director Reporting to: VP of Engineering They've hit unicorn status and are now in the middle of a significant scaling phase — the engineering org is ~50 people today and is expected to grow to 150+ over the next 12 months. The team is distributed across the UK and Europe, with a strong technical bar and a no-nonsense engineering culture. The VP of Engineering spent 9+ years at Google managing infrastructure teams at significant scale before joining at an early stage. You'll be joining as one of two Engineering Directors, sitting between the VP of Engineering and a layer of engineering managers who each lead autonomous product squads. You'll own a significant portion of the engineering organisation and be accountable for how it performs, scales, and grows. This is a player-coach role in the truest sense of leadership — not hands-on coding, but close enough to the technical work that you can hold your own in a systems design conversation, challenge architectural decisions, and earn the respect of strong engineers. Managing a set of engineering managers and senior ICs, acting as their line manager, coach, and technical sounding board Owning the health and output of multiple product squads — delivery, quality, morale, and hiring Partnering with the VP of Engineering on org design, technical strategy, and how engineering scales from here Driving hiring across your org — you'll be building something meaningful over the next 12 months Experience managing engineering managers (not just individual contributors) — you've operated a layer of abstraction above the squads A background that combines time at a well-engineered large company and time at a high-growth B2B SaaS scaleup — you understand both how great engineering is built and what it takes to ship fast with limited resources Track record conversation (45 min, remote) # Incident response / technical leadership (45 min, remote) # Compensation Competitive base salary, meaningful equity, and benefits.