Job Description

Opportunity for Impact

The vice president of engineering will play a key leadership role within the company and help define the future of test automation on a global scale.

Role and Responsibilities

Construct the optimal design of the engineering organization to enable a transformative impact on the way developers and accompanying personas engage with test automation and corresponding ecosystems
Partner with the founder to deeply internalize product strategy in order to construct the organization and execute on the larger product vision
Collaborate deeply across product teams, and with other executives to align technical architecture and business strategy, vision, with long-term product priorities
Own deliverables for all engineering teams and ensure we continue to ship scalable, high availability products that delight our users and customers
Cultivate skills and manage team performance, guiding individuals and the entire engineering organization in career progression, promotions, performance improvement, and hiring best practices; enable world class employee retention
Support and enhance a data-driven and continuous improvement culture to improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of products
Lead the designing of organizational teams and structures that rapidly experiment, continuously ship product improvements and diligently measure the results
Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement

Qualifications

Professional Qualifications

Exceptionally technically adept at transforming the company’ vision into product, while creating a partnership role with the founder and product management to define product strategy
Demonstrated success as part of the leadership team in a developer centric, product led growth company; deep understanding of open source, JavaScript, DevOps and relevant ecosystems is critical
Exceptionally results-focused; views the optimization of software engineering and product development methodologies as tools used in service of results over standard playbooks and processes
Ability to think and operate at a “strategic level,” but execute on a “tactical level” with the willingness to roll-up sleeves
Significant experience with an early stage, high-growth, product led growth company
Exceptional technical capability, with deep knowledge of and experience with modern software development practices and technologies and architectural principles found in highly scalable systems
Proven leader with the ability to recruit, design, build and lead outstanding teams, scale an organization, and properly structure teams from 25 to 100+; strong personal network comprised of people who want to rejoin this leader
Demonstrable examples of exceptional employee retention and team management
Ability to make technical decisions while balancing the needs of the user, customers, and the business
Experienced working with distributed and co-located teams.
An eloquent and savvy leader who can communicate and execute goals and objectives working with all stakeholders, including founders, customers, investors, and employees

Personal Characteristics

Intellectual inquisitiveness, truth seeker, and data centric with the ability to challenge and expand critical thinking of existing processes and patterns
High bandwidth, thoughtful and deeply reflective intelligence, capable of understanding the “why” and translating appropriately by seeing “the forest for the trees”; strong ability to educate others and share knowledge across a variety of potential audience types.
Strong, informed opinions, but loosely held in the presence of other equally informed colleagues or data to the contrary
Emotionally intelligent and able to build strong trust with leaders and employees of diverse backgrounds and experiences at all levels
Deeply responsible and accountable with strong attention to detail
Collaborative, marked by transparency, flexibility and mental dexterity
An exceptional communicator in both written and verbal interactions; always being supportive in feedback, whether in accelerating things that are going well or giving tough feedback to realign expectations/goals
Comfortable with ambiguity and frequent change, nimble and responsive in the short-term while driving progress on longer-term initiatives

Valid through: 3/9/2021