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Director, Web Platform & Technology

151k – 297kPalo Alto, CAHybrid10+ YOE
Summary

Lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of MongoDB's web platform, driving AEM migration, AI adoption, and engineering excellence for mongodb.com.

About the role

Main Responsibilities

Platform Strategy & Ownership: Define the long-term vision, architecture, roadmap, and operating model for MongoDB's web platform, aligning technology investments with marketing, growth, and business objectives.

AEM & Digital Experience: Lead the migration to and evolution of Adobe Experience Manager while integrating Adobe Experience Cloud capabilities to support personalization, content operations, search visibility, and scalable content delivery.

Engineering Excellence: Establish modern engineering practices spanning Agile delivery, CI/CD, release management, quality assurance, automation, documentation, accessibility, security, and technical governance to accelerate delivery and reduce technical debt.

Team Leadership: Lead globally distributed engineering teams and contractor partners, building high-performing delivery models and fostering technical excellence and accountability.

AI & Innovation: Identify, pilot, and operationalize AI capabilities—including generative AI, conversational experiences, workflow automation, and localization—to improve both customer experiences and engineering productivity.

Experience Optimization: Partner with marketing, design, and product teams to deliver high-converting digital experiences that guide visitors toward meaningful actions such as Atlas adoption, sales engagement, and other conversion goals.

Platform Reliability & Performance: Own site performance, availability, observability, Core Web Vitals, CDN strategy, technical SEO, AI/search discoverability, and scalable architecture to ensure a world-class user experience.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years leading large-scale web platform engineering, software development lifecycles, or enterprise website modernization initiatives
  • Deep expertise with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Sites, including component architecture, content modeling, and enterprise-scale implementations
  • Experience with the broader Adobe ecosystem (such as Adobe Target, RT-CDP, or AEM Assets) is strongly preferred
  • Demonstrated success applying AI technologies, LLMs, or generative workflows to enterprise web platforms or engineering processes
  • Proven people leader with experience managing distributed engineering organizations and blended internal/contractor teams
  • Strong execution skills across roadmap planning, Agile delivery, release management, operational excellence, and continuous improvement
  • Ability to translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions that drive measurable customer and revenue outcomes
  • Deep understanding of modern web architecture, including headless/composable CMS patterns, APIs, web performance, accessibility, technical SEO, and emerging AI search optimization practices
Skills
Adobe Experience ManagerAdobe TargetAdobe Experience CloudCI/CDAgileAI/LLMsGenerative AIWeb ArchitectureTechnical SEOCore Web Vitals
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