Director, Engineering - Partnerships

About the role

<p style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">With millions of diners, 70,000+ restaurant partners and 25+ years of experience, OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), is an industry leader with a passion for helping restaurants thrive. Our world-class technology empowers restaurants to focus on what matters most – their team, their guests, and their bottom line – while enabling diners to discover and book the perfect restaurant for every occasion.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Every employee at OpenTable has a tangible impact on what we do and how we do it. You’ll also be part of a global team and its portfolio of metasearch brands. Hospitality is all about taking care of others, and it defines our culture.</span></p> <h2 style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About the Job</strong></span></h2> <p style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the Global Partnerships engineering organization across Solutions Engineering, Integrations, and API Platform. This leader will combine product engineering judgment, technical depth, customer empathy, and operating discipline to make our partnership ecosystem easier to build on and easier to scale.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You will lead the Solutions Engineering and the engineering teams responsible for partner integrations and API platform capabilities. You will work closely with Product, Partnerships, RSS, Support, Security, Legal, and other engineering leaders to turn partner and business needs into durable platform capabilities.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This role is ideal for a leader who can move comfortably between strategy and execution: setting direction, simplifying an operating model, making hard prioritization calls, guiding architecture, handling high-severity escalations, and developing managers and senior technical leaders.</span></p> <h2 style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Set the strategy and portfolio for partner integrations, APIs, developer experience and Solutions Engineering making clear trade-offs across business value, partner commitments, reliability, and capacity.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Build a scalable Solutions Engineering model with disciplined intake, prioritization, escalation, SLAs, and communication. Identify opportunities to build a better operating model by collaborating with support, RSS and other cross-functional teams and stakeholders.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Lead the technical direction for API Platform and Integrations, and how agentic development can transform the developer experience both internally as well as for external developers using our platform.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Turn recurring partner’s identified problems and gaps into durable improvements in product, process and documentation.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style

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