Director, Development

Who We Are

Studio Designer powers the business side of interior design firms. With intuitive, purpose-built tools, designers can capture and organize hundreds of project details, track time, manage orders and instantly access essential financial information in one centralized system. Over 20,000 designers rely on Studio Designer to do more of what they do best!   Join our team of designers, technologists, and customer success professionals as we create forward-thinking business software exclusively for interior designers. We uphold our values by fostering a collaborative and creative environment that embraces uniqueness and prioritizes the well-being of our team and customers alike!

The Role

As our Director, Development, you will lead a development team responsible for crafting, building, and maintaining the key features as well as pieces of frontend infrastructure that support our all-in-one platform for our customers to collaborate and drive their businesses using Studio Designer.

Your main responsibilities include guiding and supporting the team in solving the most impactful customer and product challenges, establishing a strong technical direction for our frontend architecture and development practices, supporting engineers in their career development and growth, and balancing overall project priorities, team morale, technical debt, product quality, and customer needs. You will report to and work directly with our Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

What You’ll Do

• Lead, expand, and mature a small team of developers.
• Work alongside the CTO to develop strategic direction for architecture, development (with a heavy emphasis on frontend), and team culture, considering both reactive and proactive approaches.
• Cultivate a culture of security, incident analysis, and learning.
• Identify, prioritize, and execute opportunities to support and enable development teams with availability, performance, efficiency, resiliency, organizational change, and incident response.
• Lead the development and execution of a frontend roadmap that delivers intuitive, performant, accessible, and reliable experiences for our customers.
• Partner closely with Product to translate customer needs and product requirements into thoughtful, scalable frontend solutions.
• Collaborate with Development leaders and Product Managers to manage execution and prioritization across frontend initiatives.
• Lead efforts to reduce frontend technical debt and improve the scalability, maintainability, and consistency of our frontend architecture.
• Coach and mentor developers and peers to propagate reliability best practices across Development.