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Lead Patreon’s Payments engineering team, setting technical direction and roadmap priorities for billing, checkout, payout, compliance, and payment infrastructure. Drive reliability initiatives, international payment expansion, vendor and build-versus-buy decisions, and cross-functional planning. Manage and develop a 10–12-person engineering team, oversee hiring and performance, and deliver reliable, high-quality payment experiences for creators and fans.

Lead a team of 6–7 product designers and serve as a senior design leadership partner. Stay involved in product craft through Figma, prototyping, or production code while collaborating with product and engineering. Drive distinctive consumer software experiences, build high-performing design teams, develop talent, apply AI to improve team outcomes, influence strategy across functions, and represent Patreon's design work externally.

Lead the technical strategy for Patreon's backend platform, managing scalable distributed systems, APIs, and infrastructure. Collaborate with product teams and mentor staff engineers, emphasizing reliability and operational excellence.

Lead Patreon’s compensation strategy, market benchmarking, total rewards and equity programs. Manage annual and mid-year review cycles, pay equity analysis, bonus payouts, compensation data and tools, compliance, reporting, employee education, and cross-functional partnerships with HR, Finance, Legal, and Talent Acquisition. Coach and develop team members while ensuring compensation programs remain competitive, equitable, accurate, and aligned with business goals.