Technical Director

Job Description

Job Description

Sago Mini is an award-winning company devoted to play. With three subscription services and over 10 million monthly active users, Sago Mini creates apps that seed imagination, grow wonder, and bring thoughtful design to life for preschoolers and parents worldwide. Proudly Canadian, Sago Mini is a subsidiary of Spin Master, a leading global children’s entertainment company. Along with sister studios Toca Boca and Originator, Sago Mini is part of the Piknik bundle – a collection of the world’s best apps for kids in one subscription.

About the Role

As the Technical Director for Piknik, our subscription bundle that gives customers access to award-winning apps from Sago Mini, Toca Boca, and more, you will chart the technical future of a platform connecting 8+ apps and growing. Working alongside the Piknik team's four specialized squads (Conversion, Retention, Integration, and Tools & Scalability), you will help evolve the Piknik SDK from a shared library into a robust Platform-as-a-Product. This is a high-impact, technical, strategy-focused role where you’ll ensure our foundation is stable and ready to support our next stage of growth.

It’s important to note that this role is hybrid, requiring you to work from our downtown Toronto studio three days a week.

The anticipated salary range for this role is $135,000 to $185,000 per annum. The salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc.

This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.

You’ll thrive in this role if you…

• Treat app teams as your customers. Obsessing over the integration experience (API design, docs, etc) and removing friction, and creating shared SDKs that teams use because they want to, not because they have to.
• Are at a stage in your career where you get more enjoyment out of strategy, architecture, and enabling others instead doing hands-on implementation work yourself.
• Know how to navigate large existing codebases. You understand that in a shared ecosystem, every change has a downstream ripple effect, and you know how to strengthen the foundation without slowing down teams.
• Can weigh the purity of an architectural decision against the reality of a product deadline, finding the sweet spot between perfection and progress.

What You’ll Be Doing

Qualifications and Skills

About the Process

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Based in Toronto, Sago Sago Toys is a subsidiary of Spin Master Limited a leading global children’s entertainment company that creates, designs and manufactures a diversified portfolio of innovative toys, games, products and entertainment properties. We hire humble and collaborative people who care about doing great work. Sago Mini is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company.

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