Vice President - Engineering - B2B Product Startup

Industry - IT-Software / Software Services

Category - IT & Systems

Skills - "startup" "people management" "process oriented" "SAAS" "product management" "AWS

Job Type - Permanent

Job Description - As VP-Engineering, the incumbent will report into the CTO and be responsible for mentoring a team of highly-skilled, motivated and tenured engineers. The role will have a high focus on people and processes.

Client Details:

Our client is a Silicon Valley headquartered, B2B product startup. They are revolutionizing the way employers engage with their employees through their modern products.

Description :

- Managing a team of 35 engineers and further scaling it up to double its present size

- Focus on people, capacity, release and process planning

- Closely working with product team to roll out high quality releases

- Coordinating with senior stakeholders to drive the organization's people & process strategy in line with the broader business vision

- Leading company-wide prioritization of improvements to code quality, productivity and predictability

- Improving developer productivity, optimize our CI/CD pipelines, optimize our cloud infrastructure utilization and cost

Profile :

Must Haves :

- 10+ years of experience with a track record of leading large, globally distributed teams

- Hands-on experience of scaling teams up from scratch

- Process-oriented mindset

- Fundamentally strong understanding of various tools and technologies

- Past experience in a high energy startup environment

- A high amount of conviction, confidence, and assertiveness

- Polite personality with a dynamic, flexible mindset

- Willingness to occasionally travel to US headquarters

Good to Haves:

- Prior experience in product-based organizations from similar industries - employee engagement products, hr solutions, workforce management products

- Hands on technical knowledge and leadership experience with SaaS platform

- Experience with running products/infrastructure on public cloud at scale (prefer AWS)