Vice President of Engineering

We want to hear from people who...

• Passionate about leading engineering for a disruptive, category-defining, mission-driven brand.
• Action-oriented self-starter who can set strategy and business plans with a “roll up the sleeves” approach.
• Continuously learning and challenging the status quo; you are highly strategic with intellectual horsepower.
• Articulate and clear communicator with highly developed interpersonal skills, with a transparent and direct communication style to build trust with executive-level relationships.
• Capable of working with minimal direction and exercises diligence in determining objectives in pursuit of goals; strong sense of personal responsibility and ownership of outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of the technology roadmap that is capable of scale and supports the product and overall business strategy.
• Recruit, develop and retain top technical talent; define a world-class engineering culture of excellence, positivity, and high energy where engineers can do their best work.
• Be a champion of engineering and product excellence, establishing KPIs and processes for regular assessment and improvement for the engineering team and technology.
• Diving into code review when needed (but not coding yourself day-to-day) and contributing to the overall engineering organization from a player-coach perspective.
• Establish, execute, and achieve the company’s vision and scaling milestones in strategic alignment with business objectives, timeline, user experience, and revenue goals.

Requirements

• A proven engineering leader with experience within ambiguous, high growth start-up environments.
• Exceptional technical capability, with deep knowledge of and experience with modern software development practices and technologies.
• Ability to make technical decisions with the lens of what is best for a fast-growing startup.
• Experienced in building complex technical solutions with deep knowledge of key architectural principles found in highly scalable systems.
• Experience building technical strategy and understand technical tradeoffs and risks.
• An outstanding builder of engineering teams, and a track record of hiring, retaining, and motivating top talent.
• Player-coach engineering leader with the ability to commit production code.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to create alignment with other leaders and decision-makers in a fast-moving environment.
• Tenure within a high-growth B2B SaaS business in a team-management position.
• Experience building high-functioning teams with a “roll up the sleeves” mentality.
• Experience collaborating closely with business leadership, product, and operations teams to hone product and approach to market.
• Modern coding philosophy, preferably with experience building in React (frontend), Laravel (backend), on AWS cloud services using PHP (language).