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FranklinCovey · 1 day ago

Director of Engineering

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$207K/yr - $291K/yr

10+ years exp

FranklinCovey is one of the largest and most trusted leadership companies in the world, and they are seeking a hands-on Director of Engineering. The role involves leading multiple product teams to build learning experiences and enterprise platforms that facilitate behavior change at scale, while managing engineering teams and ensuring product quality and reliability.

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Culture & Values

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead and grow people & teams

Directly manage the 4DXOS engineering team: coach, set goals, run 1:1s, grow careers, and drive delivery quality

Manage two Engineering Managers for the Impact and Admin Platform teams; set shared standards for hiring, leveling, and performance management; ensure consistent velocity and quality across squads

Manage a central QA group (3 QA) : define test strategy (manual + automation), CI gate criteria, release readiness, and post-release quality metrics

Own outcomes for your portfolio across roadmap, execution, and reliability; balance near-term delivery with long-term platform health

Ensure the 4DXOS experience measurably helps clients close the “execution gap,” integrating tightly with FC’s leadership solutions and learner journeys

Drive Impact/Admin Platform enhancements that improve learner and admin experience, scalability, and security

Establish engineering excellence: coding standards, design reviews, incident response, on-call, test automation, CI/CD, and SLAs/SLOs

Partner with IT on Dev/SecOps (you don’t manage them): security reviews, vulnerability remediation, compliance, infrastructure costs, and monitoring

Bake in accessibility (WCAG) and inclusive design; ensure teams follow our VPAT guidance and remediation plans

Support localization and multi-language readiness practices across content and UI where applicable

Collaborate with Product, Design, Content, Client Success, and Sales to align roadmaps with business outcomes and customer value

Communicate status and tradeoffs crisply to executives; forecast capacity and budget; contribute to annual planning

Occasional team or on-site planning

Qualification

Software EngineeringCloud ApplicationsLeadershipDev/SecOps CollaborationAI IntegrationAccessibility TestingPerformance ManagementCommunication SkillsTeam ManagementCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

10+ years in software engineering with 3+ years leading managers and multi-team programs

Preferred

Experience leading multi-team programs focused on platforms or enterprise SaaS

Willingness to manage managers and directly manage IC engineers and QA in a hybrid org

Track record delivering modern cloud applications with high reliability, quality automation, and iterative releases

Strong collaboration with IT/SecOps on security, compliance, and cloud infra; pragmatic approach to risk and delivery

Excellent hiring, coaching, and performance management; creates a healthy, inclusive, high-trust culture aligned to FC's leadership principles (e.g., building trust, executing strategy, and coaching potential)

Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences

Experience driving intelligent, effective use of AI across the engineering workflow

Experience implementing LLMs into product workflows

Experience with learning platforms, content delivery, or enterprise admin tooling (bonus if you've shipped multi-tenant SaaS)

Background integrating behavior-change frameworks or coaching content into product experiences

Familiarity with accessibility testing/tooling and localization workflows

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision insurance

HSA

Employee stock purchasing program

401(k)

Paid time off

Holiday pay

Company

FranklinCovey

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FranklinCovey is a performance improvement company that helps organizations address issues that require behavioral changes.

Founded in 1983

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

501-1000 employees

http://www.franklincovey.com

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