About ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot's next-generation Search & AI-driven analytics platform lets business users run natural language queries across billions of rows of data and receive AI-generated insights in real time. Our platform is built for any business user, yet powerful enough for the most demanding enterprise environments—without compromising speed, security, or governance.
We were co-founded by engineers who built search and infrastructure at Google, database systems at Microsoft, and enterprise software at Oracle. Diversity isn't a box we check—it's the heart of Selfless Excellence, the core value that drives how we build, ship, and lead.
The Role
ThoughtSpot is looking for a bold, technically fearless Senior Director of Engineering to lead the Connected Insights track — the heart of ThoughtSpot's visualization, navigation, and frontend experience. This track spans three high-impact teams:
FE Infra
The foundational layer powering ThoughtSpot's frontend — module federation, Client caching, build systems, performance, and developer platform tooling.
Charts
The rendering engine for ThoughtSpot's rich visualization library — from core charting primitives to agent-driven chart configuration via the Answer API.
Liveboard
The primary interactive canvas in ThoughtSpot — architecture, presentation & interactivity, agent integration, and the AI-driven Liveboard experience.
This is a pivotal moment for the Connected Insights track. The frontend tech stack is deep and modern — React, Client, module federation, complex state management — and the architecture is ready for a thoughtful rethink. We need someone who will question assumptions, challenge the status quo, and bring the curiosity and technical horsepower to redesign for the next era of ThoughtSpot's scale and AI-first product vision.
Equally important: the bug backlog is real. This leader must approach quality differently — not just as a process checkbox, but as an engineering culture and operational discipline that the team owns and takes pride in.
What You'll Do
Lead & Scale Three FE-Heavy Teams
Rethink the Architecture
Attack the Bug Backlog & Raise the Quality Bar
Drive Cross-Functional Impact
What You Bring
Non-Negotiables
Strongly Valued
Who You Are
Architecturally Curious: The moment you join, you start asking "why does this work this way?" You don't accept current patterns as gospel. You pull threads, read the code, sit with engineers, and form your own view — then share it constructively.
Operationally Sharp: You know that great engineering teams don't just ship features — they own what they ship. On-call, bug SLAs, incident retrospectives, and regression testing aren't overhead to you; they're signals of team health.
A Go-Getter, Not a Delegator: You can delegate well — but you also roll up your sleeves. You debug a customer issue yourself when needed. You write the doc. You pair with an engineer who's stuck. You're credible because you do the work.
An Exceptional Talent Magnet: You have a sixth sense for great engineers. You've built teams that others want to join. You make your reports better engineers and better leaders.
A Builder with Strong Opinions: You have a point of view on frontend architecture, and you're willing to defend it — while staying genuinely open to being wrong. You move fast, you're decisive, but you're not dogmatic.
Why This Role, Why Now
ThoughtSpot is at an inflection point. Spotter, our AI analyst, is redefining how business users interact with data — and the Connected Insights track is the product surface they see and touch every time. The Liveboard is evolving from a static dashboard canvas to an AI-driven, interactive analytical workspace. Charts are being exposed as agent-callable skills. FE Infra is the connective tissue holding it all together.
This is a rare opportunity to join as the engineering owner of the most user-facing part of a category-leading analytics platform — with the freedom and mandate to rethink it from the ground up.
If you're the kind of leader who gets excited by hard architectural questions, high standards, and the challenge of transforming a team — this is the role for you.