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Remote, Oregon, United States
Remote only
Description
Sprout Social is looking to hire a Director, Engineering - Artificial Intelligence to join our engineering team. This leader will report to the Senior Vice President, Engineering. The key focus of this role is to help build and execute our platform-wide AI strategy. As a member of Sprout’s Engineering leadership team, this leader will also facilitate strong collaboration across the engineering, product management and product design organizations.
Why join Sprout’s Engineering team?
Sprout empowers businesses worldwide to harness the immense power and opportunity of social media in today’s digital-first world. Processing over one billion social messages daily, our platform serves up essential insights and actionable information to over 30,000 brands, informing strategic decisions that drive business growth and innovation, and fostering deeper, authentic connections to their end customers. Our full suite of social media management solutions includes comprehensive publishing and engagement functionality, customer care solutions, influencer marketing, connected workflows, and business intelligence. We're actively working to intuitively weave AI throughout our products, enabling organizations to work smarter, unleash their creativity, and maximize the business impact of social media–that’s where you come in!
With collaborative, cross-functional teams spanning front-end, back-end, applied science, and ML Ops, our team is a place to sharpen your craft and solve hard problems alongside some of the smartest people in the industry. As a Director of Engineering, you’ll operate at “tech-giant” scale, leading engineers and technical leaders while partnering closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and other teams to shape strategy and deliver against a shared roadmap. You’ll provide leadership across architecture, system design, engineering execution, and talent development, while helping define how our products, platforms, and services interconnect and scale. You’ll also join an empathetic Engineering Leadership team committed to helping each other grow, raising the bar for engineering excellence, and supporting our teams in delivering world-class products.
What you’ll do
What you’ll bring
We’re looking for a collaborative, pragmatic, highly motivating Engineering leader to help our AI team succeed and invest in the right capabilities to improve our customer experience and impact through AI and machine learning. If you confidently lead teams to solve hard problems, push them to learn from and teach each other, and work across functions and teams to get your teams to deliver, we'd love to talk with you!
The minimum qualifications for this role include:
Preferred qualifications for this role include:
How you’ll grow
Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:
Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:
Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:
Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:
Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager.
Our Benefits Program
We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product, and culture. We invest in our team with a comprehensive, competitive benefits program:
*This list is for informational purposes only. Benefit offerings are discretionary and subject to change and do not constitute a contract or guarantee of benefits.
Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office, it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.
Our salary ranges reflect the expected earning potential for this role. Individual pay is based on geographic zone, relevant experience, and skills.
Our current hiring range for this role: $263,900 – $319,000 annually. Offers are made within this range, with opportunities to grow within the broader band based on performance and impact.
We share both our current hiring range and our broader geographic salary bands to provide transparency into our compensation philosophy. This ensures you understand not only your starting potential but also the long-term growth potential available as you progress in your role.
We have two geographic pay zones in the United States:
Zone 1 (New York, California, Washington): $290,300 – $435,500
Zone 2 (All other US states): $263,900 – $395,900
These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable, consistent, and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually, identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.
Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on identity- race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law. Because Sprout Social is a federal contractor, we affirmatively recruit individuals with a disability and protected veterans. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our latest DEI Report.
If you require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the interview process or to submit your application, please email us at accommodations@sproutsocial.com. Include the nature of your request and your preferred contact information. We'll do everything we can to support your success during our recruitment process while upholding your privacy. Please note that only inquiries regarding accommodations will receive a response from this email address; other inquiries will not be addressed (e.g., you send your resume but are not requesting an accommodation).
For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please click here (1) Equal Opportunity Employment Poster and (2) Sprout Social's Affirmative Action Statement.
Additionally, Sprout Social participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.
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