Director, Engineering - Data Breach Response

Posting Type

Remote/Hybrid

Job Overview

About Relativity
Relativity is a leading company in AI-powered data intelligence for the legal industry. Our cloud platform helps organizations worldwide manage investigations, lawsuits, and compliance efficiently. Relativity is dedicated to innovation and building secure, reliable, and scalable solutions. The platform is trusted for handling sensitive legal and compliance work, including large-scale global investigations.
Relativity powers the world’s most critical legal, compliance, and investigative work. From corporate compliance to human rights, our platform must preserve trust in global investigations while handling petabytes of sensitive evidence.
This team owns the Data Breach Response product in the portfolio of RelativityOne applications. We are at the forefront of Legal Data Intelligence, building technology that helps organizations Organize Data, Discover Truth, and Act on It. You’ll lead the team that builds Relativity’s Data Breach Response product, which is redefining how organizations protect their customers in moments that matter most. We transform massive, fragmented datasets into clarity and action — enabling our clients to respond to breaches with speed, accuracy, and integrity.
As the Engineering Leader for Data Breach Response, you will lead the 35+ person, geographically distributed organization of engineers and engineering managers to deliver crucial strategic and architectural releases for the product.
Our services combine cutting edge AI with best-in-breed data identification and normalization to create impact lists with precision and accuracy. We process thousands of structured and un-structured data files to support companies quickly and efficiently manage their data breach response process.
This is a hands-on leadership role with technical & strategic expectations: you’ll influence architecture, mentor others, you’ll partner with our Product, Sales and Marketing teams to ensure that the features your teams deliver are meeting the market needs and expected timelines ultimately shaping the future of Data Breach Response at Relativity.
This role reports to a Vice President, Engineering. We are open to candidates in authorized US locations and Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario provinces in authorized Canadian locations.

Job Description and Requirements

What You’ll Do

• Work through your teams to design and deliver resilient, scalable and observable cloud-native systems that leverage AI-driven insights and distributed computing to accelerate breach response for our customers.
• Create an engineering culture that fosters collaboration and excellence and provide clear guidance on strategy and prioritization to ensure your teams are building the right thing the right way within committed timelines.
• Be a great people manager. and foster a proactive learning environment. Provide specific, constructive, personalized coaching. Contribute meaningfully to the career of your team.
• Work closely with the talent acquisition team to hire new talent.
• Champion a customer-obsessed, operationally-excellent culture where performance, reliability and usability drive decisions. Ensure that Data Breach response delivers a seamless, trustworthy experience that empowers customers to act with confidence.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Marketing and Customer Support leaders to refine and execute the long-term strategy for Relativity’s Data Breach Response product.
• Represent Relativity’s Data Breach Response strategy, key product efforts, and teams/functions to internal and external stakeholders, peers and partners at industry conferences, events, and one on one meetings.

What You’ll Bring

• MS, BS or BA in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant experience that includes leading software engineering teams, and at least 2 years as a leader of leaders.
• Strong business, communication, analytical, and project management skills.
• Understanding of software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience with Azure cloud, large data problems, distributed systems and AI
• A history of building strong cross-functional relationships that help your teams deliver.

Preferred Experience

• Extensive experience in data breach recovery or related industries.
• Proven track record of recruiting and growing technical teams.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across global organizations.

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Impactful mission: Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading law firms managing high-steaks breach responses.
• Growth path: Engineers gain exposure across the stack, from distributed systems to AI-enabled workflows, accelerating career growth.
• Engineering culture: Continuous delivery, strong observability, and end-to-end ownership.
• Inclusive environment: Diverse backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger.
• Compensation & benefits: Competitive salary, equity, flexible work options, and professional development support.

Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.

This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.

The expected salary range for this role is between following values:

$195,000 and $293,000

The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position. 

Suggested Skills:

Budget Management, Collaboration, Data Analysis, Engineering Management, Product Management, Project Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Team Leadership