Director - Engineering

Job Title: Director - Engineering Department, Level: Content Commerce Location: Onsite, Bangalore Work Type: Full time Job Summary: As the Director of Engineering - Content Commerce, you will lead the development of a new and strategic platform at the intersection of content, advertising, and commerce for JioHotstar. The vision is to make content shoppable - enabling users to discover and purchase products naturally while watching shows, movies, sports, or short-form content. You will define the technology strategy and build the platforms required to move users seamlessly from content-led inspiration to product discovery and purchase. This is a zero-to-one leadership role requiring strong product thinking, architectural depth, and execution ownership. You will build and lead engineering teams responsible for contextual product discovery, shoppable content experiences, storefronts, brand integrations, measurement, and integrations with commerce partners. About the team: Content Commerce is a new and high-impact bet for JioHotstar. The team will build the technology that powers commerce experiences across JioHotstar’s content surfaces. The platform will bring together content understanding, product catalogues, contextual recommendations, interactive placements, transaction journeys, attribution, and partner integrations. It will support experiences ranging from products featured within entertainment content to merchandise, brand activations, and contextual commerce during live sports. Key responsibilities: Define and execute the engineering vision and roadmap for Content Commerce, aligned with JioHotstar’s product and business strategy. Build and lead high-performing engineering teams across platform, backend, client, data, and machine learning disciplines. Build systems for content and product understanding, contextual recommendations, product ranking, catalogue management, and real-time decision-making. Build reusable capabilities for interactive placements, product showcases, storefronts and brand integrations Design robust integrations with commerce platforms, advertisers, sellers, payment systems, and other ecosystem partners. Establish measurement and attribution capabilities to evaluate engagement, conversion, partner performance, and business impact. Ensure high standards of reliability, scalability, security, observability, cost efficiency, and engineering quality. Partner closely with Product, Design, Content, Advertising, Data Science, Business, and external partners to shape strategy and deliver outcomes. Navigate ambiguity and convert broad business opportunities into clear technology platforms, execution plans, and measurable milestones. Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, strong technical judgment, and outcome orientation Skills and attributes for success: Experience leading multiple software engineering teams and engineering managers responsible for large-scale consumer or platform products.