Director of Technology - Remote

Overview

Huge is looking for a Director of Technology to join the global Tech team. Someone who understands client business challenges and partners with clients and other disciplines at Huge to design transformative experiences and identify technology solutions to enable them. You will support organic business initiatives across dedicated accounts with the account leadership team and implement Huge’s delivery approaches based on Lean and Agile principles and frameworks. Additionally you will be a leader within the technology craft, influencing the engineering practice and standards.

In Short

• Collaborate with clients to understand their technology needs, recommend solutions, and establish strong client relationships.
• Develop and execute a technology strategy that aligns with business objectives and drives innovation.
• Oversee the assessment, planning, execution, and delivery of technology projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Ensure the highest quality standards are maintained in technology development, including code reviews, testing, and performance optimization.
• Identify and mitigate technology-related risks, ensuring security and compliance with industry standards.
• Support relationships with technology vendors and partners to leverage their expertise and resources.
• Foster technical client relationships and seeks opportunities for organic growth on the accounts.
• Partner with Huge cross-discipline account leadership to convert opportunities and support outbound business development activities.
• Drive innovation within the Engineering Craft Community, staying abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to enhance our capabilities.
• Foster behavioral values of continuous learning and professional development within the Engineering craft community, nurturing talent and promoting a collaborative environment.

Requirements

• Ability to work under high levels of ambiguity to identify and evolve technology solutions.
• Experience discussing delivery with client executives, clearly articulating your strategic approach to delivery in a non-technical manner, highlighting its differentiators and benefits from other approaches.
• Experience with modern architectural patterns (e.g., Jamstack, MACH, etc) and enterprise platforms (e.g., CMSes, DAMs, CDNs, etc).
• Experience managing technical and not technical stakeholders and articulating complex concepts in a way that non-technical audiences can understand.
• Experience managing multiple onshore and offshore teams, experience with globally distributed teams is nice to have.
• An innate ability to foster relationships with all discipline partners at Huge regardless of seniority.
• Able to manage multi-vendor solution deliveries, manage prioritization, and mitigate risks.
• Dedication to evolving the technology practice, developing materials and creating content for and leading internal initiatives.
• Have strong technical expertise in implementing, governing, and scaling multidisciplinary (S)SDLCs across digital organizations.
• Expertise in digital marketing technology stacks and their associated components.
• Proven experience designing and implementing microservices architecture at scale, with particular expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP and Vercel).
• Understanding of video streaming technologies and content delivery networks, especially experience integrating with platforms like Vimeo OTT.
• Background in payment processing and subscription management systems, with knowledge of integrations for PPV.
• Experience building real-time, interactive features similar to the application’s TikTok-style content scrolling and community engagement components.
• Demonstrated success leading full-stack development teams across web and mobile platforms simultaneously.
• Track record of successfully orchestrating complex third-party API integrations while maintaining system coherence.
• Experience implementing robust authentication systems(Auth0) and content access control for premium/paid content.
• History of architecting and scaling e-commerce solutions with particular focus on security and payment flows.
• Proven ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities and translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Strong leadership skills with experience building, scaling, and mentoring engineering teams of 10+ developers.
• Experience implementing modern CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for rapid, reliable deployment.
• Demonstrated success managing complex projects with multiple workstreams while maintaining quality and timeline accountability.
• Background in media, sports, or content platform businesses strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Inclusive employee experience.
• Diversity in the workforce.
• Barrier-free recruitment and selection process.
• Support for professional development.