• We’re looking for a Director of Engineering Productivity & Operations to lead how our engineering organisation builds, delivers and operates the Maia platform
• You’ll own the strategy and execution behind our engineering productivity agenda, including the evolution of our software development lifecycle towards an increasingly agentic model, alongside the operational disciplines that keep engineering efficient: metrics, reporting, cloud and tooling spend, and vendor management
• Working closely with engineering leaders across the business and with Finance, you’ll lead a team spanning developer experience, release engineering and CloudOps, and have real scope to shape the role and make it your own
• Setting and leading the engineering productivity strategy, driving the move towards an agentic software delivery model across planning, coding, testing, review and deployment
• Owning the roadmap for shared engineering platforms and delivery capabilities, including CI/CD, release automation, observability and the developer experience
• Running the engineering operating rhythm and a trusted metrics framework, giving leadership clear visibility of delivery, quality, reliability and cost
• Leading engineering FinOps and cloud cost optimisation, working with your CloudOps analysts to build forecasting, accountability and sustainable savings
• Managing the engineering tooling portfolio end to end, including vendor evaluation, contract negotiation and renewals, in partnership with Finance, Procurement, Legal and Security

Benefits

• A truly flexible & remote working culture
• A culture that promotes work-life balance
• Company Equity
• Access to mental health support
• 15 days PTO that increases to 25 after 12 months of service
• 5 days paid volunteering leave
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• 401K
• Career development with monthly “hackdays” and access to a Udemy account
• A culture that promotes work life balance
• Access to mental health support
• 25 days holiday
• 5 days paid volunteering leave
• Pension
• Career development with monthly hackdays, access to a Udemy account, Blinkist and much more

• Experience running engineering operations, with a track record of measuring productivity through outcomes rather than activity
• A practical understanding of AI-assisted and agentic software development, ideally having led a team that builds AI agents or tooling for engineers, or a genuine drive to learn it fast
• Excellent communication and sound commercial judgement, with the ability to influence engineering, finance and executive stakeholders
• Significant engineering leadership experience in SaaS, cloud platform, DevOps, developer experience, SRE or engineering productivity organisations
• Hands-on experience with cloud cost management, vendor and contract management, and technical procurement
• Don’t tick every box? Apply anyway. We hire for potential, not just experience. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch