VP Engineering

Things You Get To Do:

• Oversee all product engineering teams

• Establish/refine systems and processes

• Own processes for recruiting, incident response, incident review, talent performance management, technical design, development processes, deployment processes, architecture, and organizational structure evolution

• Grow engineering team from 60 to 120 engineers this year and 300 engineers next year

• Direct Reports: Directors, Eng Mgrs, and TLM

• Must have experience at scale (both high performance, highly available systems) and ventures that have gone through significant scale and/or growing pains

• Create alignment across engineering, drive urgency and importance of high value problems

• Establishes, communicates, protects and implements engineering policies, practices, standards, and security measures to ensure effective and consistent operations

• Establishes and implements the strategic direction of the engineering team 

• Create accountability and own engineering metrics

• Establishes and administers the engineering budget

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering required; MBA preferred

• At least ten years of related experience required

• Previous experience at Director, VP, CTO level at an organization with tremendous engineering scale

• Prior leadership skills and engineering teams management experience >100 people

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Extensive knowledge of engineering principles and procedures

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

• Excellent time management skills

• Strong analytical, data driven and problem-solving skills