MAN-009 VP Engineering
San Francisco, Bay Area
Summary With over 300M monthly reach, our Client is the largest B2B2C video and livestream platform in the world. We are aggressively expanding our team in Silicon Valley as well as other locations globally. In Engineering, we are always looking for world-class engineers who have fun solving BIG challenges while empowering hundreds of major brands and publishers and serving hundreds of millions of users globally.
As the Vice President of Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in leading and building innovative products for our enterprise customers and consumers, setting the vision, strategy, and roadmaps for our portfolio of technologies and products. You will have a unique organization-wide view across all our functions to fuel the aggressive business growth.
What you'll be doing:
- Lead, grow, and mentor a globally-dispersed team of world-class engineers while scaling the engineering organization to fuel business growth
- Oversee technical program management and ensure the product vision is realized through excellence in execution
- Implement the structure, success metrics, and operating rhythms to deliver
- Focus on customer needs; translate customer requirements and business objectives to a clear vision and actionable plan for the engineering organization
- Provide technical leadership, develop and execute against a technical roadmap, and work closely with other senior executives to align Engineering with the business and product strategy
- Oversee engineering and infrastructure budget planning and execution; make strategic investments in key technical areas
- Design and champion a strong engineering culture that truly empowers engineers
We'll be excited if you have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related STEM field, or equivalent practical experience; graduate degree preferred
- Minimum 10+ years of experience leading and growing engineering teams through different stages of the business and product lifecycle
- 8+ years of experience leading development of customer-facing products with a proven track record leading, developing, and delivering significant, complex B2B or B2C products and solutions at scale
- Demonstrated leadership experience in managing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment
- Have an extended network of talented engineers; be able to recruit, mentor, and retain top talents
- Extensive experience building and maintaining engineering best practices
- Thrives working with a globally distributed team in an agile environment, including CI/CD and Test-Driven Development
Advanced technical background in:
- Designing large scale applications and systems
- Building solutions on the cloud (AWS or GCP) and Kubernetes
- Managing cloud-based infrastructure
- Algorithms and performance optimizations
- Video and streaming tech stack experience is highly desired
- Fullstack (web, mobile, data) experience is highly desired
- Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills
- Strong influencer and communicator to various types of technical and non-technical audiences (writing, speaking, presenting)
- High emotional intelligence and empathy with ability to build trust and rapport while tackling tough problems
A BIG PLUS if you have:
- Experience working on video/streaming platforms
- Experience working on ecommerce platforms
- Experience working on advertising platforms