Engineering Area Director

Responsibilities

• Define engineering and architecture strategy that supports the product direction
• Join product discovery early to shape solutions and flag technical risk
• Improve delivery speed, predictability, and release quality across your teams
• Own production health: reliability, security, incident response, and compliance
• Balance new product value against tech debt, operational work, and legacy complexity

Introduce AI-native engineering practices, tools, and guardrails

• Lead, hire, and develop engineering managers, architects, and senior engineers
• Manage the area's engineering budget, including cloud, tooling, and headcount
• Collaborate with other areas on shared platforms, data, and standards

Requirements

• Experience leading multiple teams through engineering managers

Experience owning production systems and operational quality

• A strong product mindset and focus on customer value
• A track record of improving delivery velocity and team effectiveness
• Confidence managing budgets, workforce planning, and tough people decisions
• Practical experience applying AI to software development

About the Team

You’ll lead engineering for Emplifi Publisher, our enterprise social media tool and a core part of our Autonomous CX platform. Publisher uses Fuel AI to automate content scheduling across channels, predict the best times to post, and write copy in multiple languages, all from a single dashboard. Behind it sits a governance layer with custom, multi-stage approval workflows, so global brands with complex regional teams can publish at scale without risking brand safety. That combination of AI, scale, and enterprise-grade workflows makes for interesting engineering problems.

You’ll report to our Chief Product and Technology Officer and work in a leadership trio with a Product Area Director and a UX Lead, who jointly own the area’s success. You’ll also work with other Engineering Area Directors and our Engineering Platform team.

About the Role

As Engineering Area Director, you're accountable for how your product area builds, runs, and improves its products. You'll set the technical direction, lead engineering managers and architects, and own delivery speed, quality, and reliability in production. You'll also bring AI-native ways of working into how your teams build. You'll lead through people, systems, and judgment, while staying close enough to the technology to make sound calls.

What You'll Bring to Us

Significant engineering leadership experience in SaaS or enterprise software

Strong technical and architectural judgment

A collaborative style that works well in a Product, Engineering, and UX trio

What We Offer

International and fast-paced environment

• Chance to work with the world's biggest brands at the CX tech leader
• Agile and open-minded culture, with high levels of trust and flexibility

Opportunity for professional growth and development

• Possibility to learn new and cutting-edge technologies in an environment that encourages new ideas
• AI-first workplace with access to leading AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more), empowering you to work smarter, innovate faster, and build AI skills for the future
• Flexible working environment
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Sick Days & Community Service Days
• Multisport card

Maternity and Parental Benefit

Possibility to work from offices in Prague (Karlin), Brno (Impact Hub), Pilsen (Roudná)

There's more as well! Speak with us to find out all the details!

At Emplifi, we are committed to creating a workplace where everyone is valued, respected, and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, gender identities, and LGBTQ+ communities.

Emplifi offers a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment where every employee has the opportunity to thrive and is encouraged to be who they are.

We welcome and encourage applicants with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request at any stage of the recruitment process.