Backed by SoftBank VF, ICONIQ and Menlo.
About the role
Growth is how millions of people find Chime, set up direct deposit, transact every day, unlock all the features and benefits Chime offers, and keep coming back. The Growth Platform is the engine behind it: Web, Paid, Notifications, Incentives, Targeting, Experimentation and Personalization, all used by every Growth team at Chime. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading teams and at least 2 years leading tech lead managers or other leaders. You know how to help TLMs balance technical ownership with people leadership
- A track record of building growth or marketing platforms that many teams rely on, such as experimentation, targeting, messaging, incentives/rewards, paid attribution or personalization
- Deep experimentation and measurement chops. You know how to prove a lift is real, and how to build platforms that keep tests trustworthy at high volume
- Strong distributed systems and data architecture judgment: real-time event pipelines, feature stores, low-latency decisioning and high-volume messaging
- Clear executive communication and a history of earning buy-in across Product, Marketing and Data Science
- Bonus: experience in fintech or another regulated industry, paid acquisition/mobile measurement, or leading a large platform migration
More about this role
Growth is how millions of people find Chime, set up direct deposit, transact every day, unlock all the features and benefits Chime offers, and keep coming back. The Growth Platform is the engine behind it: Web, Paid, Notifications, Incentives, Targeting, Experimentation and Personalization, all used by every Growth team at Chime. We're looking for a Director to lead this org and build what comes next, a platform where AI and ML decide what each member sees, when, and on which channel, and where AI agents design, run and learn from experiments on their own, so Chime learns faster every week. If you've built growth platforms at scale and want to define how they power Chime's hypergrowth in 2027 and beyond, we'd love to talk.
- Lead the Growth Platform org, a team of tech lead managers (TLMs) and senior engineers across Web, Paid, Notifications, Incentives, Targeting, Experimentation and Personalization. You'll report to the VP of Growth Engineering.
- Set the multi-year vision and roadmap. Turn seven separate systems into one connected growth platform with shared member data, decisioning and measurement.
- Make the platform AI-native and agentic. Put ML and GenAI to work in...
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