Poshmark
Director of Engineering, Growth
US California (Redwood City) - Office · Director
Stay score
odds of building a lasting career here
Thin sponsorship signal and lottery-bound. A low-probability bet with your clock running. Prioritize cap-exempt roles and proven entry-level sponsors first.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →Employer immigration record
from this employer's Department of Labor filings
Files H-1B transfers
Sourced from Department of Labor LCA, PERM and prevailing-wage disclosure data. Employer matching is by name, so figures may be split across an employer's legal entities. Absence of a filing means none appears in our copy of the data, not that none exists.
Community outcomes
No reports yet — be the first to help the next applicant.
About the role
- We expect our Directors to have the technical depth to engage in architecture discussions, challenge technical decisions, and help teams navigate complex technical and product problems.
Responsibilities
- Lead multiple engineering teams and Engineering Managers across the Growth organization.
- Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing to define Growth strategy, roadmaps, and priorities.
- Drive measurable improvements across acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and other key growth opportunities.
- Build a strong experimentation culture, enabling teams to rapidly test, learn, iterate, and scale successful ideas.
- Drive execution across complex, cross-functional initiatives while improving predictability and time-to-market.
- Develop Engineering Managers, senior technical leaders, and future leaders across the organization.
- Define and evolve the technical strategy and architecture needed to support Poshmark's long-term growth.
- Maintain a high bar for engineering excellence, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, performance, and operational ownership.
- Champion incremental development and frequent production deployments, enabling teams to learn and deliver value quickly.
- Own organizational planning, staffing, hiring, talent development, and succession planning.
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering leadership experience, including experience leading Engineering Managers and multiple engineering teams.
- Proven track record delivering complex, high-impact product and technology initiatives.
- Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and scalable system design.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior technical, product, and executive stakeholders.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment with ambiguity and evolving priorities.
Nice to have
- Experience leading Growth Engineering in marketplaces, e-commerce, social, or other high-scale consumer products, including globally distributed teams.
- Experience with Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) and MarTech ecosystems, including segmentation, lifecycle marketing, personalization, attribution, analytics, and cross-channel activation.
- Demonstrated success driving engineering and organizational transformation, including modernizing platforms, practices, and ways of working.
Benefits
- Balance product delivery with investments in technical health, scalability, developer productivity, and platform modernization.
Company info
- The Growth Engineering team builds experiences and platforms that drive sustainable growth across the Poshmark marketplace.
- The team works across the customer journey-from acquisition and onboarding to engagement, retention, and reactivation-using technology, data, and experimentation to create meaningful customer and business impact.
- Growth Engineering operates in highly collaborative, cross-functional squads, partnering closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Analytics, Marketing, and other engineering teams.
- As Director of Engineering (Growth), you will lead multiple engineering teams and managers responsible for critical growth initiatives across Poshmark.
- You will shape the technical strategy, build strong engineering leaders, and create a culture focused on customer outcomes, experimentation, execution, and engineering excellence.
- This is not a pure management role.
This listing is sourced directly from Poshmark's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.