Pluralsight

Pluralsight

Director, Hands-on Labs

Remote - USA, USA · Director

Sponsorship not specified$148k-$195kDetected 76 days ago
Cloud PlatformsDevOpsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningForecastingPerformance ManagementLeadershipCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • You'll bring this to life by leading a team responsible for delivering technically accurate, reliable, and scalable hands-on learning experiences.
  • In addition, you will be accountable for balancing innovation, quality, learner experience, reliability, and throughput while creating scalable systems, standards, and workflows for lab production.
  • This approach enables more effective collaboration, quicker decision-making, and a stronger culture, while still providing flexibility.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team responsible for building, validating, maintaining, and scaling hands-on labs and interactive technical experiences.
  • Drive career growth, performance management, coaching, and team structure planning for Technical Content Producers and technical contributors.
  • Own the lab production operating model, including intake, prioritization, staffing and capacity planning, delivery forecasting, roadmap alignment, quality gates, and technical review processes.
  • Partner with Engineering and Product teams to improve lab platform capabilities, developer tooling, telemetry, QA systems, and operational reliability.
  • Lead technical reviews and deep dives to assess lab feasibility, topical accuracy, architecture, platform fit, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Build a culture of technical excellence, ownership, continuous improvement, and learner-centered execution.
  • We work in a blended environment that supports collaboration, flexibility, and connection across teams.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of people leadership experience, including leading software engineers, technical producers, senior ICs, managers, or cross-functional technical teams.
  • Applications must be submitted within 90 days after the initial posting date to be considered.

Nice to have

  • Experience leading software development teams, technical teams, senior technical ICs, or other cross-functional technical groups.
  • Technical proficiency in software development, IT operations, DevOps, cloud, cybersecurity, data, AI/ML, or similar technology domains.
  • Ability to establish technical standards for lab creation, including environment configuration, validation and testing practices, versioning, maintenance, quality gates, and troubleshooting expectations.
  • Background leading automation, tooling, or workflow improvements in partnership with Engineering, R&D, Product, or platform teams.

Skills

  • Actual compensation will depend on location, skills, experience, and other factors.

Compensation

  • The annual US base salary range for this role is $148,200 - $195,000 USD.
  • Actual compensation will depend on location, skills, experience, and other factors.

Benefits

  • As the Director, Hands-on Labs, you will set the technical vision, hands-on learning strategy, and operational strategy for building and scaling high-quality hands-on lab experiences across the Pluralsight platform.
  • We are always learning, creating an environment where you can take on new challenges, expand your skills, and grow with purpose.
  • Benefits include competitive compensation, bonus eligibility, comprehensive medical coverage, unlimited PTO, wellness reimbursement, professional development funds, and more.
  • A technologist at heart who understands how software is built, tested, shipped, and maintained, and can apply that experience to create realistic learning environments as well as improve lab delivery practices
  • Additional benefits and bonuses may apply.

Company info

  • Pluralsight provides the only learning platform dedicated to accelerating the technology skills and capabilities of today's tech workforce. Thousands of companies, government organizations and individuals around the world rely on Pluralsight to support critical technology skill development in areas that are crucial to innovation including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development, and machine learning. We offer highly curated content developed by vetted technology experts, industry leading skill assessments, and hands on, immersive learning experiences designed to help individuals skill-up faster.
  • Physical Requirements:
  • This role is primarily performed in an office or home office setting and involves standard computer-based work.
  • EEOC & Accommodations Statement:
  • Pluralsight provides the only learning platform dedicated to accelerating the technology skills and capabilities of today's tech workforce.
  • Thousands of companies, government organizations and individuals around the world rely on Pluralsight to support critical technology skill development in areas that are crucial to innovation including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development, and machine learning.
  • We offer highly curated content developed by vetted technology experts, industry leading skill assessments, and hands on, immersive learning experiences designed to help individuals skill-up faster.
  • We are mission-driven, shaping the future of tech upskilling and delivering impact that matters.

Equal opportunity

  • Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer.
  • equal opportunity employer.
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