Director of Engineering Partnerships

Storable is redefining property management for specialty real estate, and they are seeking a Director of Engineering Partnerships to lead contractor governance strategy across engineering. The role involves establishing performance KPIs, evaluating contractor effectiveness, and ensuring operational alignment while partnering with engineering leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Design and lead contractor governance strategy across engineering
• Establish clear productivity and performance KPIs for third-party engineering teams
• Define and enforce SLAs aligned to engineering delivery standards
• Evaluate contractor effectiveness across multiple vendors
• Partner with VPs and Directors of Engineering to assess where contractors are accelerating outcomes, and where they are not
• Create visibility into total cost of ownership and contractor ROI
• Recommend vendor consolidation, renegotiation, conversion to FTE, or exit strategies when necessary
• Ensure contractor onboarding, access, security, and operational alignment are consistent and scalable
• Build a repeatable governance model that balances speed, accountability, and cost discipline

Requirements:

• A foundation in software engineering or technical program leadership
• Experience operating inside blended FTE + contractor environments
• Direct ownership of contractor governance, vendor performance, or engineering workforce strategy
• Comfort defining delivery KPIs (velocity, predictability, quality, cost efficiency)
• Experience having hard conversations around performance and vendor accountability
• Ability to speak both 'engineering' and 'business' fluently