Director, Software Engineering, Risk
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Meta is seeking a Director of Software Engineering for Risk in London to lead the Product Risk & Compliance teams, embedding privacy, integrity, and regulatory compliance into Meta’s products and systems. The role blends technical leadership with strategic, cross functional program management, driving company wide responses to new laws and building centralized, compliant by design platforms while guiding engineers and managers in a fast moving, impact oriented environment. You’ll shape strategy, manage executive relationships, recruit and develop teams, and uphold a culture of respect and inclusion. In your application, emphasize leadership of risk programs with measurable outcomes, cross functional collaboration, and readiness for on site London work with concrete STAR examples and results.
Meta’s Product Risk & Compliance teams are at the forefront of embedding privacy, integrity, and regulatory compliance into the company’s most critical products and systems.
We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader to join our Risk teams, which will put you right at the heart of some of the company’s most important investments and challenges. Our teams work horizontally across the whole company, identifying emerging patterns and creating solutions for controls that allow the company to move fast, turning Meta’s compliance strategy into a competitive advantage.
Your team’s work will range from working on company-wide responses to new laws, through supporting product teams across Meta on both technical strategy, to building centralized technology systems that allow Meta products to be compliant-by-design in code.
You’ll influence technical decision making and company strategy as well as driving prioritization and execution, while managing outstanding engineers and engineering managers in a fast-paced, impact focused environment. We are looking for someone with a strong technical foundation plus a track record of structuring healthy organizations that encourage effective collaborations across multiple disciplines.
Responsibilities
Build, manage and support diverse teams of software engineers and engineering managers
* Drive strategy for company trajectory-altering problems, managing relationships with executive leadership and coordinating execution plans with partner orgs, ensuring we meet legal and regulatory commitments while optimizing for company efficiency.
* Provide both technical and organizational leadership
* Form cross-functional and cross-discipline partnerships to drive engineering efforts
* Uphold a culture of respect, integrity, inclusion, innovation
* Demonstrated experience recruiting, building, structuring, leading technical organizations, including performance management
* Embrace a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are operationalized at a very fast pace.
Qualifications
Significant technical industry experience
* Extensive management experience Graduate degree preferred