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About Niche Niche is the leader in school search. Our mission is to make researching and enrolling in schools easy, transparent, and free. With in-depth profiles on every school and college in America, 140 million reviews and ratings, and powerful search tools, we help millions of people find the right school for them. We also help thousands of schools recruit more best-fit students, by highlighting what makes them great and making it easier to visit and apply. Niche is all about finding where you belong, and that mission inspires how we operate every day. We want Niche to be a place where people truly enjoy working and can thrive professionally.   About The Role We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the engineering side of the Partner Experience organization — the group responsible for the end-to-end partner journey across two product teams: Partner Quoting & Delivery and Partner Reporting & Insights.   The Partner Acquisition & Delivery team owns the platforms and products that answer did the partner receive what they bought — partner onboarding, prospect quoting, and the lead delivery pipeline. Looking ahead, quoting evolves toward a partner-facing experience where partners interact directly with guidance and recommendations on their orders, whether self-serve or in partnership with their account manager.   The Partner Reporting & Insights team owns the platforms and products that ensure how the partner sees the value they purchased, and the insights they need to optimize further — platform performance reporting, monthly insight reports, and the insights engine. The forward direction is an "always on" experience where insights surface continuously to help partners optimize strategy and performance throughout the cycle.   Together, the organization is oriented around how partners onboard, what Niche delivers, how value is reported back, and how that loop drives retention and expansion. This Director will be the engineering co-lead of that mission — partnering tightly with product leadership to set direction, build the teams, and raise the bar on how Niche builds software.   What You Will Do The Director of Engineering for the Partner Experience organization is a senior engineering leader who owns team health, technical strategy, and delivery velocity across both teams. They are the engineering counterpart to the organization's product leadership, driving alignment from discovery through delivery. Critically, this person is an active champion of AI-native engineering — not just personally, but as an operating model they build, measure, and hold their teams accountable to. During the First Month: Learn about Niche by meeting with various team members to learn more about our company through our Onboarding meetings Meet all direct reports and key cross-functional partners; build an initial read on team strengths and gaps Get deep on the partner-facing product surfaces, current tech stack, and delivery patterns across both teams Understand the partner experience end to end — onboarding speed, lead pacing, platform engagement — and where the biggest engineering leverage points are Form an initial point of view on the teams' AI tooling adoption and where the gaps are Within 2  Months: Present your assessment of the organization's engineering health — delivery, architecture, team org, AI readiness — to the CTO and Sr. Director of Product Align with product leadership on near-term technical priorities and any pressing architectural decisions Identify the top 2–3 things you'd change in the first half of your tenure and propose a plan Begin actively coaching EMs on embedding AI-native practices into their teams' day-to-day workflows Within 3 Months: Own the engineering roadmap and resourcing for both teams with full confidence Have a defined velocity measur