Director, Software Engineering

ClassPass is a company that offers thousands of fitness and wellness experiences worldwide, helping people lead active, balanced lifestyles. As Director of Software Engineering, you'll lead engineering squads and manage a team of engineering managers responsible for high-impact product and platform initiatives, balancing near-term execution with long-term architectural decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Setting vision and strategy for the consumer engineering organization, including roadmap prioritization, technical architecture decisions, and resource allocation across four engineering teams
• Building and developing engineering leaders
• Leading transformative initiatives including a brand-new product launch while also iterating on established platforms
• Enabling rapid experimentation in growth and community, balancing velocity with code quality and scalability
• Managing upward effectively with your VP of Engineering and broader leadership team, surfacing risks and opportunities while advocating for your teams' needs
• Owning cross-team collaboration across consumer surfaces (web, iOS, Android) and backend systems, driving alignment on shared technical decisions
• Championing engineering excellence through hiring, onboarding, technical standards, and operational best practices across your four teams
• Driving organizational health, including talent development, manager feedback and support, and culture initiatives that keep your teams engaged and growing
• Representing consumer engineering within the broader Playlist/ClassPass engineering organization and contributing to org-wide initiatives

Requirements:

• 3+ years leading as a Director or Sr. Engineering Manager with demonstrated success building and scaling engineering organizations managing multiple teams and leaders (not just direct IC management)
• Significant consumer-facing product experience, ideally with exposure to both web and mobile platforms
• Building and shipping complex products at scale, with a track record of taking initiatives from concept to launch and optimizing them for impact
• Hands-on technical depth in backend systems, APIs, mobile development (iOS/Android), or full-stack architectures
• Shaping and scaling AI-enabled ways of working, including identifying high-leverage opportunities, piloting new workflows, measuring their impact, and driving adoption
• Experience leading teams across time zones and fostering a remote-first, asynchronous-friendly culture
• Experience with some amount of organizational ownership beyond pure IC/manager coaching including headcount planning, hiring, cross-team dependency management, technical architecture decisions
• A growth mindset and comfort with ambiguity
• Strong communication skills with the ability to connect technical and business perspectives, translate between layers of the organization, and drive alignment across functions