Job Title: Director - Engineering
Department, Level: Content Commerce
Location: Onsite, Bangalore
Work Type: Full time
Job Summary: As the Director of Engineering - Content Commerce, you will lead the development of a new and strategic platform at the intersection of content, advertising, and commerce for JioHotstar.
The vision is to make content shoppable - enabling users to discover and purchase products naturally while watching shows, movies, sports, or short-form content. You will define the technology strategy and build the platforms required to move users seamlessly from content-led inspiration to product discovery and purchase. This is a zero-to-one leadership role requiring strong product thinking, architectural depth, and execution ownership. You will build and lead engineering teams responsible for contextual product discovery, shoppable content experiences, storefronts, brand integrations, measurement, and integrations with commerce partners.
About the team: Content Commerce is a current and high-impact bet for JioHotstar.



The team will build the technology that powers commerce experiences across JioHotstar’s content surfaces.
The platform will bring together content understanding, product catalogues, contextual recommendations, interactive placements, transaction journeys, attribution, and partner integrations. It will support experiences ranging from products featured within entertainment content to merchandise, brand activations, and contextual commerce during live sports.
Key responsibilities:
Define and execute the engineering vision and roadmap for Content Commerce, aligned with JioHotstar’s product and business strategy.
Build and lead high-performing engineering teams across platform, backend, client, data, and machine learning disciplines.
Build systems for content and product understanding, contextual recommendations, product ranking, catalogue management, and real-time decision-making.
Build reusable capabilities for interactive placements, product

📌 Director - Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 JioStar
📍 Bengaluru