About point.me
At point.me, we’re on a mission to increase the spending power for millions of people by turning loyalty points into wealth. We are committed to simplifying the loyalty points experience and increasing our customers' spending power by using our real-time search and booking engine, making it easy to book flights with points.
Over the last two-plus decades, points and miles have evolved into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Exact numbers aren’t published, but it’s estimated that $300 billion in award points are issued every year. For context, that’s on par with the GDP of Greece!
Join us and be part of a fast-growing company where your work will make a real impact on the future of award booking. We offer competitive salaries, meaningful equity, comprehensive health coverage, and the opportunity to work fully remotely as part of a distributed team.
The Position
We’re looking for a Director of Engineering, Consumer to lead the engineering strategy and execution for our consumer-facing product team. You’ll be the go-to partner for cross-functional stakeholders, lead and build the consumer engineering pod, and set the pace for building products that delight our customers while driving business impact.
What You'll Do
- People Leadership: Lead, coach, and manage a team of engineers, driving growth, accountability, and high performance.
- Engineering Strategy: Own the engineering strategy and delivery for the consumer pod, ensuring product requirements translate into scalable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Serve as the primary engineering point of contact for consumer product stakeholders, ensuring alignment between technical feasibility and business goals.
- Execution & Delivery: Drive a delivery process that ships customer value week over week with high velocity and quality.
- Technical Guidance: Set and reinforce best practices, establish strong technical standards, and raise the bar for collaborative excellence across the team.
Who You Are
- Strong track record of building, leading, and managing teams of high performing engineers.
- Experience building data-intensive or complex consumer products, such as subscription platforms, social media, marketplaces, ecommerce, or consumer SaaS.
- Deep product engineering background, with a proven ability to deliver customer-facing features at speed.
- Strong technical proficiency in modern consumer-facing stack, with the ability to translate business needs into clear and effective engineering strategy.
- Strong collaborator and communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong interest in understanding our customer and problem space, with a passion for creating a game-changing consumer product.
Why You'll Like Working Here
Join our growing team! Here at point.me we believe in taking care of our team, so that our team can take care of our customers. All employees are offered the following:
- Competitive salaries
- Ownership with meaningful equity
- Fully-paid Medical, Dental, Vision, HRA for US employees
- 100% distributed workforce, so you can contribute from anywhere
- Open vacation policy, with a minimum of 15 days off each year
- Paid family leave for all parents
The anticipated salary range for this role's listed level is $200,000-$250,000. Level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, in alignment with market data.
All applicants must be available to work continental US hours.
Equal Opportunity Employer
At point.me, we value a diverse team. That's why we are committed to providing equal opportunity employment regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. We encourage you to apply and to let us know if you require accommodation during the recruitment process.
Sound like a good fit? Let’s chat.
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