Director Engineering

Location: Remote (Must be based anywhere in the Czech Republic)

Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.

While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

Help Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology!

Want to develop the strategies and principles needed to deliver compelling software? Join our team and help us enhance our all-in-one software platform, elevate our one-of-a-kind technology, and improve the employee experience. Take your career to the next level at one of G2's Top 100 Software Companies. Explore our Product & Technology positions to see where you fit!

The Director, Engineering is a critical role in our Engineering organization. We are unique and afford leaders the opportunity to lead in an integrated environment, working closely with Product Management on the product vision, Design for discovery and user experience, as well as Engineering for delivery and implementation.   

This position requires a strategic technical leader committed to finding and delivering against our internal application teams and our customers' unmet needs across a wide variety of core services powering our Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions. This role will enable a culture of innovation and ownership across all of Engineering – ensuring the teams are entrepreneurial and self-sufficient while still focused on a shared vision. 

Who you are:  

An engineer at heart with passion for leadership, people development, strategy and delivering outcomes.   You work through influence, rely on data to support your decision-making process, and committed to a growth mindset.   

• You deliver high quality, on time software providing the ultimate customer experience 
• Develop and execute technical and organizational strategy to scale technology with business & user growth  
• Possess learning agility, a growth mindset, and the ability to turn the ambiguous into actionable plans 
• An experienced people leader that can attract, retain, and develop high performing  engineering talent  
• An advocate for continuous improvement of our software development process and our teams  
• A passion for technology, people, and achieving outcomes  
• Able to work in a collaborative environment where you proactively engage and share your ideas 
• Excited to work on cutting-edge technology 
• Can introduce meaningful & impactful change, strategically, leading your team and others effectively through this change 
• Demonstrates a high level of accountability and instills accountability into the teams you lead 
• Can interact with all levels of the organization (Executive to Individual Contributors) and understands how to effectively communicate with the respective audience  

During the first six months, you will: 

• Lead functional area through the development of new products, solutions, and processes 
• Oversee functional resource allocation setting and delivering against fiscal year objectives 
• Coach and mentor managers and future leaders 
• Identify and lead process improvements within assigned function or across product & tech  
• Establish strategy for one domain area 
• Participate with other senior managers/leaders to establish and implement cross-functional strategic plans and?objectives? 
• Make decisions that impact the management and direction of assigned function and affect short-term functional revenue 
• Plan business strategy/ objectives?6-12 months out, while setting directional strategy 1-3 years out  
• Lead major initiatives through delivery and the ability to run them (operational excellence)  
• Be looked to as a model for balancing product/business and engineering concerns designed to scale with Paylocity’s growth while influencing Paylocity’s technical direction 

Required Experience:  

• Minimum 10 years' work experience with technology company and a minimum experience of 5 years+ as a people manager 
• Expert Communicator - both written and verbal, with all levels of the organization (Executive to Individual Contributor) and adjust approach accordingly  
• Able to effectively present information, gain feedback and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients and customers.  
• Harmony, intensity and passion are necessary to blend with the rest of the management team. 
• Compelling leadership style that includes extraordinary people and program management skills, business and technology expertise with a style that inspires and shows confidence. 
• Hands-on knowledge of Agile engineering practices  
• Possess a blend of business to have a big-picture vision as well as the drive and attention to detail that transforms strategy into action 
• Proven experience operating in a matrix environment where authority is shared with business and product leaders. 
• Experience with Software Platforms, Consumer products, mobile & web development with a user base of 10 million+ users   

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer.

Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact leavebenefits@paylocity.com.

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