VP – Engineering

VP – Engineering

Requirements

• You have a passion for and experience leading development teams/organizations through inspiration and building on the vision for our product, company and category.
• You have plenty of related experience including leading the development process in partnership with product management.
• Experience recruiting, mentoring, and guiding a development team with empathy, transparency and inspiration to contribute to our culture and meet goals and objectives through your leadership style.
• You can build and lead engineer orgs with 30 to 300 people.
• You can partner with teams including Product, Sales and Customer Success to play a key role in executing on product roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Articulate the strategic vision of the company and the product to the engineering team to ensure transparency, alignment, inspiration and excitement to execute.
• Setting and executing on key performance measures for the engineering team to ensure company goals are met (if not exceeded!) including productivity and efficiency as we scale including key performance metrics.
• Mentoring and evolving a career path for the management and development team.
• Organizational design for both engineering teams and their PM/UX counterparts – working in conjunction with VP Product/CTO on team design as we scale.
• Process design and implementation/change management.
• Finance – Budgeting/forecasting as well as managing tax incentives like SR&ED / equivalent in other regions.
• Communication of engineering goals, progress and status to broader stakeholders at Klue (CEO/Board/Org, etc.).
• Oversee the daily operations of our SaaS platform: 1) Budgeting / Cost controls / Ops strategy / Vendor management, 2) DevOps / Platform Engineering / SecOps, 3) Ensure SLA/SLOs are met including org-wide responses to issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted in lieu of the specifics listed above.