Sr. Director, Engineering Operations

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Alteryx is searching for a Sr. Director, Engineering Operations. This position is remote-friendly.

As Alteryx continues to scale and innovate, maintaining and elevating our engineering excellence is paramount. As Senior Director, Engineering Operations, you will play a central role in driving this crucial initiative. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will be the driving force behind enhancing our engineering practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and ensuring operational efficiency across our global engineering organization. This is not just an operational role; it's a highly impactful opportunity to shape the future of engineering at Alteryx and contribute directly to our continued success. You will be at the heart of managing initiatives to improve our service catalog, quality, performance, and reliability.

This role is critical because as Alteryx grows, maintaining high quality, reliability, and efficiency in our engineering processes becomes increasingly complex. Our global and fully remote engineering team, with members across the US, Europe, and India, presents unique challenges in communication, collaboration, and alignment. Additionally, our growing and maturing product portfolio, encompassing multiple products in different technologies and states of maturity, requires customized engineering excellence initiatives tailored to specific needs. This role will provide focus and leadership to ensure we scale effectively, address these complexities, and continue to deliver exceptional products to our customers. It’s an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on a rapidly growing company in a highly visible role.

Position Overview:

You will be a key advisor and operational leader to the CTO, focused on driving engineering excellence across our global engineering organization. You will partner with engineering leadership and central expert teams (SRE, DevOps, QA, etc.) to define and implement operational standards, track key performance indicators, lead improvement initiatives, and communicate progress to executive leadership and the broader company. You will be responsible for building consensus across leaders, many of whom will be your peers and driving with influence. You will partner closely with the …