Director of Engineering, CaptivateIQ
ICM
CA$207-325.7k
+ Annual bonuses and equity
Commission management platform
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Commission management platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$207-325.7k
+ Annual bonuses and equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring joy and transparency to sales performance management.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading managers and multi-team engineering organizations
- Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering teams
- Demonstrated experience owning products end to end and scaling existing systems
- Experience building AI/ML-enabled products — or strong interest and aptitude in leveraging AI to create differentiated product experiences
- Strong technical instincts across product architecture, infrastructure, reliability, and developer experience
- Deep partnership orientation with Product and Design; you think beyond engineering and care deeply about customer outcomes
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and create clarity for teams
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience working cross-functionally with executive leadership
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Engineering Director to lead our flagship Incentive Compensation Management product with a focus on building innovative, customer-centric, AI-first capabilities that transform the world of incentives
- This role is equal parts product thinking, technical leadership, and organizational building
- You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, GTM, and executive leadership to identify opportunities, shape strategy, and deliver meaningful customer and business impact
- You’ll lead multiple engineering teams and managers through ambiguity to turn new ideas into scalable products and platforms
- Strategy:
- Develop and execute the engineering strategy for a portfolio of initiatives, ensuring alignment with company priorities, customer needs, and long-term platform direction
- Help identify new opportunities, shape technical direction, and guide product evolution at scale, including the thoughtful application of AI to create differentiated customer experiences and workflows
- Organizational Leadership:
- Recruit, grow, and inspire high-performing engineering organizations
- Develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders while fostering a culture centered around ownership, velocity, innovation, and continuous improvement
- Design organizational structures and engineering processes that evolve with product maturity
- Technical Leadership:
- Guide architectural and organizational decisions that balance speed, scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability
- Stay close enough to the work to identify risks, challenge assumptions, and raise the quality bar across the organization
- You don't need to write production code, but you need to earn the respect of the engineers who do
- Execution:
- Drive alignment, prioritization, and execution across Engineering, Product, Design, and GTM teams. Create clarity in ambiguous environments, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and help teams move quickly while maintaining a high quality bar
- Why You'll Love This Role:
- You’ll own a market leading product and shape the next step function evolution in capabilities and company impact
- You’ll operate with significant ownership and influence across product and engineering strategy
- You’ll work alongside deeply collaborative product, design, and engineering leaders
- You’ll join a high-growth company with strong product-market fit and ambitious expansion plans
- You’ll have the opportunity to shape not only products, but the engineering culture and organization that builds them
Our take
CaptivateIQ is an incentive compensation platform using AI to automate commission workflows. Businesses spent an exorbitant amount each year managing commission processes, so the company's no-code SaaS is a welcome overhaul for the sector.
CaptivateIQ's platform improves both the efficiency and accuracy of existing legacy processes, serving any type of organization that utilizes a performance-based compensation plan. The founding team has real experience with the cumbersome process of managing commission payments, which is why they chose to target this particular problem.
CaptivateIQ has been smart in building a more generic product, allowing it to attract big-name clients from different sectors. This broad customer acquisition, atop regular funding injections, has helped CaptivateIQ reach Unicorn status. The company continues to add to its offering, for example with the launch of its AI-powered payee experience in 2025.
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Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$100m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$46m
SERIES B
Total funding: $159.2m
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mark Schopmeyer
(Co-CEO & Co-founder)Former Investment Professional at Carrick Capital Partners and Finance and Strategy Manager at BrightRoll. Former Investment Banking Analyst at Jefferies & Company and Lehman Brothers. BA in Business Administration from Berkley School of Business.
Conway Teng
(Co-CEO & Co-founder)Former employee at Gusto in Finance and Business Operations. Previously Head of Growth at OrderAhead. Founder of FiveStars. Graduated from Berkley.
Hubert Wong
(Principal Engineer & Co-founder)Was CTO of the company for 6 years. Former Senior Software Engineer at Vungle, OpenTable and CoPilot Labs. BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkley.
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