Mars United Commerce Powered by Marilyn is a global commerce company that delivers all the solutions clients need to grow their business today and tomorrow. Founded by the late Marilyn Barnett, we’ve become global leaders in four key commerce disciplines - Strategy & Analytics, Digital Commerce, Content & Experiences, and Retail Consultancy - that together form a United Commerce Ecosystem that provides all the expertise clients need to navigate the commerce marketing landscape. Our 800+ Martians across North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia exist to drive growth for our people, our clients, and our communities all across the globe.
We’re seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to nurture a high-performing team of software, BI, and data engineers. This team operates within a large, complex marketing enterprise, and needs a technically strong, experienced, and emotionally intelligent leader to navigate the organization.

SKILLSETS REQUIRED:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3–5 years managing engineering teams.
• Strong experience leading across functions: backend, data pipelines, and BI/reporting tools.
• Demonstrated success managing distributed teams across time zones and functions. We operate mostly in Mountain Time, but have many contributors in Eastern Time.
• Deep familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), especially with IAM.
• Has experience navigating complex or bureaucratic environments while maintaining agile team health.
• Understands how to balance long-term architectural integrity with pragmatic business needs.
• Passionate about building teams, not just shipping code.

BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:

• Familiarity with marketing or martech systems (e.g., customer data platforms, attribution modeling, campaign orchestration).
• Background in data privacy, security policies, and compliance.

Stack Snapshot (for context)

• Cloud: Google Cloud Platform
• Languages: Python, TypeScript/Vue.js, SQL
• Data: BigQuery, dbt, Looker (and legacy systems in Azure)
• DevOps: GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, misc. (some Terraform, etc.)

Mars United Commerce is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, ancestry, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or handicap, HIV, veteran, marital or family status, or any other status or condition protected by applicable state and/or federal laws, except where a bonafide occupational qualification applies.
Mars United Commerce has developed a wide variety of inclusive benefit plans and policies that address and promote the needs of all employees and their family members, including comprehensive group health plans, a parental leave program that includes paid maternity and paternity benefits for pregnancy, adoption and surrogacy, flexible paid time off, a broad and confidential employee assistance program, ongoing wellness support initiatives, trusted financial health advice and guidance, promotion of education through tuition support and assistance, and a flexible and supportive work environment and culture.
Compensation Range: $132,715 - $172,520 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be October 31, 2025.

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• Lead a distributed team of software engineers, data engineers, and BI developers.
• Serve as a technical advocate and organizational buffer—protecting the team from the effects of working in a large company.
• Act as liaison between the business and engineering technical leaders to give additional context to architectural and business considerations.
• Provide hands-on technical redundancy across our Google Cloud Platform (GCP): setting up Google Groups, managing IAM permissions, roles, and service accounts, monitor resources and associated spend.
• Collaborate with technical leaders, product leaders, analytics users, and other data organizations to prioritize technical efforts with business outcomes in mind.
• Build a strong engineering culture rooted in collaboration, clean code, and continuous improvement.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain top-tier engineering talent.