At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together!

Team Description:

Join the Platform Experience team, a core group within our GPTO Engineering organization, where you will report to the Senior Director of Engineering. Our team is on a mission to provide the unshakeable foundation of trust, security, and scale for the entire Anaplan ecosystem. We empower our internal developers and external partners to build with speed and confidence.

Your Impact:

Organisational Leadership & Vision

Lead, develop, and scale a multi-team engineering organization, cultivating the next generation of technical leaders and engineering managers.

Define and champion the organizational vision and culture, fostering an environment of innovation, accountability, and psychological safety.

Own the organizational design and headcount planning for the entire Platform Experience domain, aligning team structure to strategic business objectives.

Instill a strong 'customer-first' and product-oriented culture within the engineering organization, ensuring that every team understands the business impact of their technical decisions.

Strategic Delivery & Operational Excellence 

Own the operational and delivery strategy for the Platform Experience portfolio, ensuring your organization meets its commitments and delivers measurable business value.

Drive a culture of scaled operational excellence, using metrics like DORA not just for team performance, but to guide strategic investment and process improvement across the department.

Manage budgets, vendor relationships, and resource allocation to maximize impact and ensure the long-term health of the platform.

Cross-Functional Strategy & Business Alignment

Define the long-term technical and product strategy for the Platform Experience, creating and presenting compelling roadmaps to executive leadership.

Act as a key strategic partner to leaders in Product, Architecture, and other business units, ensuring platform initiatives are directly aligned with company-wide goals.

Represent the Platform Experience organization in senior leadership forums, driving critical technical and architectural decisions that impact the entire company

Platform & Product Mindset

Apply product thinking to platform solutions, ensuring they meet real business and customer needs

Champion innovation in performance, tooling, and platform capabilities

Oversee design and delivery of full stack solutions spanning React, Java, and Python

Forge strong, collaborative partnerships with Product Management, Architecture, and other engineering leaders to ensure strategic alignment and seamless execution

Your Qualifications:

Leadership & Management

15+ years of software engineering experience with 8+ years in engineering management, including at least 3+ years managing other engineering managers.

Proven track record managing multi-team organization and leading them through significant process transformations (e.g., monthly to daily releases)

Experience managing both technical leads/Principal Engineers and individual contributors

Demonstrated ability to scale teams thoughtfully based on demand, not politics

Technical Depth

Strong software development background with hands-on experience in platform, infrastructure, or integration-centric environments

Strategic understanding of modern distributed systems, including event-driven architectures and large-scale data platforms

Deep knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and experience overseeing the development of API-first ecosystems

Demonstrated ability to translate high-level business needs into clear, actionable technical strategies and roadmaps

Proficiency in hybrid/cloud-agnostic infrastructure, full-stack technologies (Java, React), continuous delivery workflow and ability to guide technical decisions

Delivery & Process

Pragmatic approach to balancing process, documentation, and speed of delivery

Deep understanding of DORA metrics and their proper application to drive improvement

Experience leading high-velocity engineering organisations with daily release cadence

Skilled at change management and cultural transformation in engineering teams

Communication & Collaboration

Exceptional communication skills—written and verbal—with ability to influence across all levels

Experienced creating executive-level strategy documents, roadmaps, and presentations

Comfortable working with globally distributed teams across multiple time zones

Strong collaborative partnership with Product Management; proactive problem-solving mindset

Preferred Skills

Experience leading engineering organizations through periods of hyper-growth or large-scale transformation.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)

We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day! 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. 

Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer 

It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.  

Anaplan does not: 

Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.  
Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication.

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Director, Software Engineering - Platform Experience

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