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We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.JOB DESCRIPTION\nFox Corporation Fox Corporation is home to industry-leading brands including FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations, and Tubi Media Group. We combine innovative technology, deep data insights, and world-class content to shape the future of digital entertainment. Our DTC platforms are built to deliver highly personalized, scalable user experiences to millions of global users.\nABOUT THE ROLE\nFOX Corporation is looking for an experienced Director, Engineering - Personalization & Recommendations API (PNR) to lead the engineering organization responsible for building scalable personalization and recommendation platforms that power content discovery and individualized user experiences across FOX's digital products. You will be responsible for defining the engineering strategy, building and scaling high-performing teams, and driving technical excellence across one of the most strategic areas of our Digital Product ecosystem.\nOur Personalization & Recommendations engineering team develops and maintains intelligent platforms that deliver personalized content recommendations, user experiences, and engagement capabilities across Web, Mobile, and Connected TV applications. Working closely with Product, Data Science, Machine Learning, Analytics, and Platform Engineering teams, the organization builds highly scalable services that leverage customer behavior, content metadata, and machine learning models to provide relevant and engaging experiences for millions of users worldwide.\nAs the Director, Engineering - Personalization & Recommendations (PNR), you will provide strategic and technical leadership across multiple engineering teams responsible for recommendation services, personalization platforms, user profile services, experimentation frameworks, and content discovery capabilities. You will partner closely with Product Management, Data Science, Machine Learning, Analytics, Platform Engineering, and executive leadership to define technology strategy, deliver business-critical initiatives, and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence.\nA SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES\nLead and grow multiple engineering teams responsible for Personalization and Recommendation platforms across FOX's Digital Product ecosystem.\nDefine and execute the engineering strategy and technology roadmap aligned with FOX's Digital Product vision.\nDrive architecture decisions for highly scalable, resilient, and low-latency recommendation and personalization services.\nBuild a culture focused on engineering excellence, innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.\nPartner closely with Product Management, Data Science, Machine Learning, Analytics, Platform Engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver strategic business initiatives.\nEstablish engineering best practices around software architecture, coding standards, testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and operational excellence.\nLead organizational planning including hiring, talent development, succession planning, performance management, and team growth.\nMentor Engineering Managers and Senior Engineers while building future technical leaders within the organization.\nDrive continuous improvements in engineering processes, release management, platform reliability, and developer productivity.\nBalance feature delivery with long-term platform scalability, modernization, and technical debt reduction.\nLead the development of experimentation platforms including A/B testing capabilities to support data-driven product decisions.\nEnsure recommendation services deliver high availability, scalability, performance, and measurable business impact.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate recommendation services across Web, Mobile, and Connected TV applications.\nCommunicate engineering strategy, delivery status, risks, trade-offs, and business outcomes to executive leadership.\nFoster an inclusive engineering culture focused on ownership, innovation, customer experience, and continuous learning.\nWHAT YOU WILL NEED\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.\n12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading multiple engineering teams or organizations.\nProven experience building scalable backend platforms and distributed systems serving millions of users.\nStrong experience developing personalization, recommendation, customer engagement, search, or content discovery platforms.\nExperience working with Machine Learning Engineers and Data Science teams to productionize ML models.\nStrong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and cloud-native application development.\nExperience designing and operating highly scalable services on AWS or similar cloud platforms.\nProven experience leading Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, and Senior Technical Leaders in AI or ML area..\nStrong knowledge of Agile software development, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and engineering operational excellence.\nDemonstrated success managing organizational growth, hiring, coaching, performance management, and succession planning.\nStrong business acumen with the ability to align engineering investments with product strategy and customer outcomes.\nExcellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.\n NICE TO HAVE\nExperience building recommendation engines, personalization platforms, customer segmentation systems, or content ranking services.\nExperience with experimentation platforms, feature flagging, and A/B testing frameworks.\nFamiliarity with Machine Learning lifecycle tools, feature stores, and real-time inference systems.\nExperience working with streaming platforms, digital media, or consumer-facing applications.\nKnowledge of data platforms, analytics pipelines, and customer behavior modeling.\nExperience with observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, New Relic, or Splunk.\nExperience leading globally distributed engineering organizations.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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