Director, Engineering

Rows is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here.

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Director to lead and scale our Porto engineering site following the acquisition of Rows, a powerful spreadsheet platform designed for modern teams, by Superhuman.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of a newly integrated product and team within Superhuman. You will be the key engineering leader in Porto, responsible for integrating a high-performing, cohesive team into Superhuman’s broader organization while scaling the site into a world-class engineering hub.

You’ll play a critical role in aligning architecture, roadmap, and culture across geographies, working closely with teams in the US and Europe. Your leadership will ensure we maintain a high technical bar while rapidly growing the team and evolving our systems to support the next generation of AI-powered products.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and grow the Porto engineering site from ~18 to 60+ engineers while maintaining a high bar for technical excellence and culture.

• Partner with Product and Design leaders to define and execute a shared roadmap aligned across Porto, Berlin, and US teams.

• Establish strong architectural alignment and prevent divergence across teams and geographies.

• Evaluate and guide technical decisions, ensuring sound tradeoffs between iteration and long-term system evolution.

• Build a high-performing engineering organization, including developing the EM layer and leadership bench.

• Create a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement while maintaining team trust and motivation.

• Drive structured integration of the acquired Rows team, including clear assessment, performance calibration, and organizational alignment.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to ensure strong execution and business impact.

• Hire and attract top-tier engineering talent in Porto, building a sustainable and scalable organization.

• Establish clear decision-making frameworks and escalation paths across distributed teams.

• Proven experience leading and scaling engineering organizations (Director or senior EM level), including growing teams significantly (e.g., 15 → 50+).

• Strong architectural judgment with the ability to guide complex system design and evaluate tradeoffs (e.g., evolution vs rewrite).

• High technical credibility with senior and staff engineers; able to challenge decisions and elevate technical discussions.

• Experience scaling complex systems and maintaining technical excellence during periods of rapid growth.

• Demonstrated ability to integrate teams (e.g., post-acquisition or re-org) and drive organizational maturity.

• Strong people leadership skills, including managing managers, developing leaders, and making performance decisions.

• Track record of building high-performance, accountable, and collaborative engineering cultures.

• Experience working across multiple geographies, with strong cross-site collaboration and alignment skills.

• Clear and structured approach to decision-making, prioritization, and communication.

• Strong hiring instincts and experience building high-quality teams in competitive markets.

• Porto team remains motivated, engaged, and high-performing through integration.

• Technical bar is visibly high, with strong architectural discipline.

• Clear alignment on roadmap and technical direction across Porto, Berlin, and US.

• Strong, trust-based working relationships across sites.

• No “Porto vs US” dynamic — teams operate as one.

• Clear performance calibration and organizational clarity.

• Early signs of successful hiring and team growth.

• Porto site has scaled significantly with high-quality hires.

• Strong EM layer and leadership bench in place.

• Engineering standards and execution are consistent across all sites.

• Porto is a trusted partner in cross-site technical and product decisions.

• Organization is structured for long-term scalability and sustained excellence.

Compensation range: €130,000-180,000

• Professional Growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being

• A connected team: Superhuman builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first, hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture rooted in our values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our team member resource groups, Superhuman Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs.

• Comprehensive benefits for candidates based in Portugal: Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing life care (including mental health care and risk benefits) and ample and defined time off. We also offer support to set up a home office, wellness and pet care stipends, learning and development opportunities, and more.

At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. Superhuman is an equal opportunity company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, sexual identity, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, criminal prosecution, judgment in a criminal case, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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