Director Research and Software Engineering
| Company | RELX |
|---|---|
| Location | Horsham, PA, USA, Washington, DC, USA, Raleigh, NC, USA, Alexandria, VA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Proven experience (7+ years) as a software engineer.
- Proven experience (7+ years) of software engineering leadership, managing diverse cross-functional teams.
- Strong architecture and coding skills across the stack (e.g., backend, frontend, cloud).
- Demonstrated ability to build and iterate on products quickly, ideally in a startup or innovation lab environment.
- Experience leading small, cross-functional teams.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Comfort with ambiguity, experimentation, and shifting priorities.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical owner of MVPs and experimental products from concept through delivery.
- Design and implement scalable prototypes with a focus on velocity, quality, and flexibility.
- Lead and mentor a small team of engineers; establish best practices that encourage autonomy, innovation, and rapid iteration.
- Collaborate with the product manager to shape roadmaps, scope experiments, and make build-vs-buy decisions.
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term technical thinking.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns appropriate for early-stage development.
- Create an engineering culture that celebrates experimentation, fast learning, and user feedback.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with rapid prototyping and user testing.
- Familiarity with lean product development or design thinking.
- Prior work in greenfield or 0→1 product environments.