HackerOne is the global leader in human-powered security, harnessing the creativity of the world’s largest community of security researchers with cutting-edge AI to protect your digital assets. The HackerOne Platform combines the expertise of our elite community and the most up-to-date vulnerability database to pinpoint critical security flaws across your attack surface. Our integrated solutions, including bug bounty, pentesting, code security audits, spot checks, and AI red teaming, ensure continuous vulnerability discovery and management throughout the software development lifecycle. Trusted by industry leaders such as Coinbase, General Motors, GitHub, Goldman Sachs, Hyatt, PayPal, and the U.S. Department of Defense, HackerOne was named a Best Workplace for Innovators by Fast Company in 2023 and a Most Loved Workplace for Young Professionals in 2024.

Position Summary

Are you passionate about shaping the future of a business-critical engineering department? Do you thrive on empowering managers and teams, understanding their motivations, and cultivating their skill sets? Are you driven to consistently guide your team to deliver high business impact through engineering excellence?

As an Engineering Director, you will be responsible for leading and growing our engineering team. You will strategically guide the team’s direction, ensuring alignment with company goals. Your role will involve hiring, developing, and managing a diverse team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment. You will also collaborate closely with product, design, customer success, and support teams to ensure seamless project delivery and customer satisfaction. Leading our bug bounty and pentest engineering team, you will address the complex needs of our global customers, effectively managing escalations and expectations. Additionally, you will balance customer requirements with the team’s capacity to drive innovative solutions within a dynamic environment. Strong communication skills will be essential for navigating challenges, building relationships, and ensuring customers feel valued and supported.

At HackerOne, we believe in a growth mindset and investment in engineering skill sets. We’re highly collaborative and continuously iterative, working closely with Designers, Product Managers, and stakeholders across the entire organization. We value robust technical architecture alongside amazing product experience. As an Engineering Director, you’ll steward these values and add your own flavor to the mix.

What You Will Do

• Empower a team of engineers with varying levels of expertise and domain experience to achieve a high level of efficiency, quality and consistency. 

• Manage a Senior Manager and their team of engineers in North America

• Oversee a global IC engineering support team

• Expand the team through hiring and onboarding.

• Collaborate extensively with stakeholders across the entire company. You’ll find yourself working most closely with Product, Design, your fellow engineers, and our most strategic customers, but will need strong relationships with all departments to be most effective.

• As part of an engineering leadership team that punches far above its weight, you’ll dive into projects that influence the processes, efficiency, and development of HackerOne’s Engineering department.

• Must be based remotely in Canada, Eastern or Atlantic timezone. HackerOne is a digital-first company. This model offers our employees flexibility in time and location. All employees must be able to work and excel in a remote environment.Engineering department.

Minimum Qualifications  

• 10+ years managing software engineering departments/teams

• Experience in customer support desk roles and/or organizations

• Customer engagement experience

• Strong stakeholder management skills

• Proven track record of delivering within time and budget constraints

• Proven leadership experience in engineering, preferably within the security domain

• Strong strategic thinking and creative problem-solving abilities

• Passion for empowering and developing engineering talent

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

• Ability to balance competing priorities and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

• Must be based remotely in Canada, Eastern or Atlantic time zone. HackerOne is a digital-first company. This model offers our employees flexibility in time and location. All employees must be able to work and excel in a remote environment.

Compensation:
Canada

CA$196K – CA$245K • Offers Equity

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HackerOne Values

HackerOne commits to maintaining a strong, inclusive culture built for our employees and our community of hackers. We are driven by our five core values. We recognize that our mission is bigger than us, and therefore act with integrity at all times. As a team, we believe that transparency builds trust so we default to disclosure in our communications. Each individual executes with excellence, creating an environment of greater alignment and greater autonomy. We win as a team and respect all people to empower everyone to learn from each other, innovate, and grow.