VP Engineering

  About the job: 
We are looking
for an experienced VP Engineering to lead our growing global technology
organization who is committed promote excellence, and continuously look for
ways to improve our engineering methodologies and business offering. 
Your role as VP
of Engineering will involve managing teams of brilliant engineers that
responsible to evolve and optimize the current high-scale cloud-based AI
platform (serverless architecture based) and its foundational building blocks
consists of data management, knowledge graphs, proprietary NLP engine and IDE,
machine learning capabilities and utilities 
 
Stuff you’ll be doing (aka Responsibilities): 
· Deliver. Support the company’s growth  
· Setting strategies and engineering methodologies, including designing
solutions, evaluating architectural options, and setting quality standards for
real-world, large-scale solutions 
· Manage processes to help the teams do its best work and engage effectively with the
rest of our staff. 
· Work closely with the Product, Professional Services, Marketing and
Sales teams to build products and solutions our customers would love to use. 
· Closely partnering with the Product organization in co-creating
executable product vision, roadmaps and workplans 
· Serve as the focal point with regards to high-level scoping and design
of cross-team/group initiatives. 
· Incubate and prioritize initiatives that would increase the
effectiveness of the Customer Success  
· Help with project management of projects that require complex
coordination with other teams, vendors, and partners 
· Mentoring, growing, and running a high functioning, highly productive,
agile, motivated and distributed engineering organization and contractors 
· Driving the architecture, execution and delivery of our technology stack 
· Making and owing critical decisions, remaining proactive in foreseeing
and resolving issues 
· Ensuring that teams are accountable, have clear priorities, and adequate
resources 
· Fostering a culture of personal and technical excellence 
 
Stuff we need you to have (aka Rrequirements/Skills): 
 
· +2 years of experience in a senior
leadership role  
· Experience in leading software engineering teams (25+) with a distinguished track record of
delivering on technically demanding initiatives 
· Product
mindset and ability to articulate and discuss solution with customers,
partners, and leadership stakeholders 
· Experience
partnering with the Product organization in co-creating executable product
vision, roadmaps and workplans 
· Excellent communication
(verbal & written) and presentation skills – can talk and explain at the
right level of abstraction to different audiences 
 
Engineering org/teams: 
· Strong track
record of hiring, organizing, and coaching Engineering Managers and technical
leaders 
· Ability to work very well cross-functionally,
and can think rigorously and make hard decisions and tradeoffs 
· Experience
in building the processes to support high-performing and growing engineering
organization  
· Passionate
about driving the entire organization to forward looking architectures 
· Identify knowledge gaps and missing skills and develop and execute an action plan accordingly  
· Communicate
and translate business goals and needs to technical vision, provide guidance
and context to engineering teams and ensure they know the WHY and not just the
WHAT.  
· Experience
running a line of business (creating
engineering budget projections, headcount and infrastructure resource requests;
driving hiring strategy, etc.) – advantage 
·   
Technical: 
· Experience
in building large scale B2B SaaS products / strong understanding of distributed
system architecture and concepts 
· Extensive experience
working with AWS cloud environments (GCP – advantage) 
· A proven
record in highly available production systems (monitoring performance, costs,
reliability)  
· Passionate
about exploring new technologies and its applicability   
· Experience
working in TDD, and CI/CD environments 
· Experience managing
or working on NLP/ML problems and  DS
initiatives – advantage 
Other: 
· Post-COVID –
working from our office in Tel Aviv. 
· Proficiency
in English