Director of Engineering

As the Director of Engineering for Enterprise SaaS Platforms (India), you’ll build our India platform engineering organization from the ground up. You will report directly to the VP of Enterprise Platforms & Technology and be one of the first engineering directors based in India. As the sole engineering director in EP&T based in India, you'll partner with your US-based peer leaders in Engineering, Product, and Design, but will have broad latitude to shape culture, hiring practices, and operating norms for the team you build. You will personally recruit the senior bench, allowing you to pull talent from your network. You will hold the bar on AI-native engineering practices, partner closely with US-based domain experts and product managers to translate design intent into production reality, and work with US-based platform and agentic engineering team to deliver the integration and AI infrastructure that connects your work into the broader enterprise. We are building a new India-based engineering team to take end-to-end ownership of Workday HR and ServiceNow in 2026, with potential expansion to other enterprise SaaS platforms in the future. This team will own its platform stacks completely — production access, change ownership, on-call rotation, direct stakeholder relationships — not as remote staffing for US-led work, but as a peer engineering organization with its own architectural authority. EP&T operates with an AI-native engineering culture. Modern AI coding and agent tooling is baseline practice across our existing US teams. For your India team, that means AI-augmented configuration is the daily reality: designing Workday business processes, generating ServiceNow flows, and writing platform-bounded code with AI as a partner, at a pace that traditional methods can't match. Your team's success proves and scales this operating model. This is a team where your technical credibility matters. We are building it from scratch, and the leader who joins now will lay the engineering foundation for enterprise-wide shift to invisible, agent-mediated platforms, and define what excellence looks like in this space for years to come.

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15+ years of experience in enterprise SaaS platform engineering, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles managing managers and multi-functional engineering teams.
Team Builder & Talent Magnet: Built engineering teams from scratch; recruits and develops senior talent; establishes strong culture and operating model early.
AI-Native Leader: Actively uses AI coding/agent tools; has led AI adoption across teams (not just “open to it”).
Enterprise SaaS Expertise: Deep in at least one platform (Workday HR preferred) + breadth across others (ServiceNow, Salesforce, Workday Financials); proven track record building high-quality SaaS engineering environments.
Distributed Leadership: Led global/offshore teams; strong experience working with US stakeholders across time zones; maintains alignment across culture, ops, and engineering standards.
Multi-Domain Ownership: Experience leading across multiple business domains (HR, Finance, Sales, Support) and engaging diverse stakeholders.
Balanced Engineering Leadership: Led both application development + platform/config/admin teams; hands-on enough to engage in architecture and technical decisions.
Executive Communication: Strong written and verbal English; able to operate with and influence senior US leadership.

Workday Studio, EIB, or scripted integration depth (5+ years)
Experience partnering closely with a US-based VP or senior executive (5+ years)
ServiceNow platform experience (2+ years)
SOX or compliance-driven environment experience (2+ years)
Workday Financials experience (1-year or more preferred)
Active in the Workday or ServiceNow ecosystem (community, conferences,
certifications)

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.