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WHOOPWHOOPBoston, MA

Director, IT Engineering

Lead and build WHOOP's IT Engineering team to deliver innovative, secure infrastructure enabling global employee productivity and scale. Requires deep technical expertise, leadership in high-growth settings, and hands-on execution.

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On-siteDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Engineer a fast, frictionless workplace: Lead global IT operations enabling thousands worldwide to work efficiently.
  • Craft an innovative technology environment: Envision and implement future-forward IT.
  • Scale with human and non-human workers: Run hyper-efficient IT operations using AI.
  • Implement robust security protections: Ensure security-by-design.
  • Earn trust through compliance and controls.
  • Drive cross-functional change as a collaborative leader.
  • Build the most technically capable IT team in the Northeast.

Qualifications

  • Master of modern technology with deep hands-on implementation experience.
  • Extensive leadership in IT or Engineering in high-growth environments.
  • Pragmatic judgment in architecture and system design balancing speed, scalability, security, and employee experience.
  • Ability to shift from strategy to hands-on engineering.
  • Outstanding business partnership, storytelling, and communication skills.
  • Experience building and leading high-performing technical teams.
  • High EQ, focus on employee experience, and creative problem-solving.
  • Strong financial analysis, business acumen, and fiscal stewardship.

Skills

AIKubernetesCloud InfrastructureSecurity-By-DesignSystem ArchitectureIt OperationsDevOpsCompliance ControlsAutomationFinancial Analysis

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