Director, Growth Engineering

Chime

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$269,000–$373,000 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
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Above market

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This role pays more than 87% of similar roles. Most pay $216,300–$288,650 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $321k versus about $252k for comparable roles.

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About Chime

Chime is a financial technology company offering mobile-first banking services including fee-free checking accounts, savings accounts, and a secured credit builder card through partner banks. Industry: Financial Technology & Neobanking

Chime currently has 40 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $164,000–$251,500 across 40 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director, Growth Engineering

The Director, Growth Engineering leads the Growth Platform organization, managing tech lead managers and senior engineers across Web, Paid, Notifications, Incentives, Targeting, Experimentation, and Personalization. This leader will define a multi-year roadmap to unify seven separate systems into one connected platform with shared member data and measurement. Key responsibilities include making the platform AI-native by implementing ML and GenAI for targeting, bidding, and content, while building agentic flows for self-learning experiments. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, data architecture, real-time event pipelines, feature stores, and low-latency decisioning. The position solves the technical challenge of enabling growth teams to launch, target, and personalize changes in days rather than weeks while ensuring reliability, cost-efficiency, and compliance within a regulated financial technology environment.

What you'll do

  • Lead the Growth Platform organization, managing tech lead managers and senior engineers across multiple functional areas.
  • Define the multi-year vision and roadmap to unify seven separate systems into one connected growth platform.
  • Develop and implement AI-native and agentic flows for targeting, bidding, content, and self-learning experiment agents.
  • Enable growth squads and marketers to independently launch, target, personalize, and measure changes within days.
  • Partner with Product, Marketing, and Data Science leaders to align platform bets with key business metrics.
  • Hire, coach, and grow a high-ownership team of technical leaders who remain hands-on with engineering.
  • Ensure platform reliability, cost-efficiency, and compliance with risk, privacy, and fairness standards.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years in software engineering.
  • 5+ years leading teams.
  • 2+ years leading tech lead managers or other leaders.
  • Track record of building growth or marketing platforms like experimentation, targeting, messaging, incentives, or personalization.
  • Hands-on experience shipping ML-powered systems for real-time product decisions and LLM-based agents in production.
  • Deep expertise in experimentation, measurement, distributed systems, and data architecture.
  • Clear executive communication skills and a history of earning buy-in across Product, Marketing, and Data Science.
  • Experience in fintech, regulated industries, paid acquisition, or leading large platform migrations (preferred).

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