Director of Engineering Operations, Fingerprint
$200-250k
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Device intelligence platform for fraud detection
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Device intelligence platform for fraud detection
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-250k
Listed range applies to US-based employees only, and may vary in other locations
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower developers to build safe and seamless online services.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years in Technical Program Management, Product Management, Strategy or Operations in technology environments; experience working directly with senior tech leadership highly preferred. You don’t need to be a current engineer, but you should be comfortable navigating technical conversations and earning credibility with senior engineers
- Background in STEM (Engineering, Computer Science) or equivalent technical experience
- You thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments, balancing long-term initiatives with urgent priorities and managing ambiguity with focus and discipline
- Excellent verbal and written communicator – you’re able to craft executive-level content and align diverse stakeholders
- Experience managing budgets, tracking KPIs, and driving operational efficiency within a technology organization
- Be a strategic thinker: comfortable both thinking through how to address challenges, solve problems all while consistently prioritizing where to focus
- Have high EQ, being able to read the room quickly and effectively (is both confident and humble)
- Lead with influence: building consensus while navigating complexity
- Have a bias for action: acting with urgency but grounded in thoughtful judgement
- Fingerprint strives to foster an environment where our employees feel respected, valued and empowered, and our team members are at the forefront in helping us promote and sustain an inclusive workplace. We highly encourage people from underrepresented groups in tech to apply
What the job involves
- As the Director of Engineering Operations, you will be a key partner in ensuring the engineering organization operates with clarity, focus, and efficiency. Working closely with the VP, you will help shape priorities, coordinate execution across teams, and remove obstacles to keep projects on track
- This role sits at the intersection of strategy and operations, enabling our technical teams to deliver at a high level while maintaining alignment with company goals
- Work closely with the VP of Engineering to shape and drive the technical roadmap, strategic priorities, and execution rhythm across engineering teams
- Serve as the VP’s “force multiplier”, monitoring project health, removing roadblocks, framing complex decisions, and ensuring flawless follow-through
- Reduce operational overhead for the VP by managing cross-functional coordination and communications
- Ensure meetings drive clarity, accountability, and progress toward goals
- Drive priority engineering projects — whether org design, process development, or build efficiency — with a focus on disciplined project management and measurable outcomes
- Build and manage tools for high-velocity program execution, including planning frameworks, org comms and offsites
- Act as liaison between Product Management and cross-functional partners (Engineering, Finance, GTM, HR, Design)
- Prepare high-quality strategic materials for executive and external stakeholders with a focus on clarity and impact
- Surface insights and recommendations to the VP Eng on organizational improvements, decision-making, and operational efficiencies
- Build and maintain dashboards, scorecards, and reporting mechanisms for visibility into performance
Our take
Digital fingerprinting is an essential process in web browsers that tracks the digital address of a device to monitor web activity. This technique facilitates the identification of fraud and spam, as well as warning signs of account takeovers. However, the success of this requires users to accept cookies, a requirement that is easy to avoid.
Fingerprint provides a digital fingerprinting tool that generates a unique identifier of browser activity without requiring the user to accept cookies. The service uses the same WebGL and canvas fingerprinting utilized by existing competitors, but instead of focusing on devices, it identifies web activity. Suspicious activity will result in the identified user being logged in a database, allowing the service to be improved for others.
With this innovative approach, Fingerprint has been able to build up an impressive client roster of over 6000 companies, including 16% of the top 500 websites by traffic. As well as displaying sustained growth through funding rounds, the company has also continued to improve upon its offering - for instance, in Q1 2023 it reported a decrease in iOS false positive and false negative rates by 85%.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2023
$33m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$32m
SERIES B
Total funding: $77m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Unlimited vacation, with a minimum vacation days target
- Remote-first: we work asynchronously and respect time-zone differences
- MacBook (you get to keep it after 3 years)
- A small team with a lean hierarchy where you can make a real impact in shaping the company
- Company meet-ups once a year (we went to Mexico City in 2023!)
- Smaller group meet-ups throughout the year
- $600 yearly budget that you can spend to learn new stuff
- Personal development: we give you the freedom to grow and experiment, work on open-source projects and try new things and ideas
Company HQ
Little Italy, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Valentin Vasilyev
(CTO)Valentin worked as a Software Engineer for the first 9 years of their career, before Team Lead roles at Evrone and Machinio.com. They left this role in March 2019 to co-found Fingerprint the following month.
Dan Pinto
(CEO)Previously co-founded Machino, where they were CTO, and has experience in Software Engineering.
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