Vice President - Engineering - B2B Space

Vice President Engineering

The role:

- Strengthening our management team, we are looking to add a 'VP of Engineering', for leading and managing all of the engineering and technology functions of the company.

- The VP of Engineering would work with, report to and work hand-in-hand with the company CEO, who is based out of The Netherlands.

- The person would work hand-in-hand with the Product Management function of the company.

- This is an excellent entrepreneurial role for those who are excited about leading the next big phenomenon in the Industry 4.0/ Industrial-tech space.

Responsibilities:

The areas of direct responsibilities for VP of Engineering include:

- Architecture and Development leadership: we have a high quality and enthusiastic team of technologists (architects, engineers, designers, developers) - each one of them are handpicked from the market for their strong and unique competencies. With a rich technology experience and thought leadership, VP Engineering would guide, coach and assist the team, while getting hands-on, when needed.

- Delivering to the Product Roadmap : envisioning and delivering on product roadmap in alignment with the company's strategy, market developments and the voice of customer. Our currentsuite of products have gained a great uptake in the market. Moving forward. there is a strong product pipeline and strong product management team for the VP Engineering to leverage and work with.

- Supporting the Delivery organization : as the leader responsible for technical delivery of customer engagements, VP Engineering would lead and supervise deployment, integration, custom development, customer support, around the implementation of Company's products.

The areas of support responsibilities for VP Engineering include:

- Supporting sales, alliances and presales: plan for & provide product/tech team capacity for supporting sales, alliances & presales team. Activities would include, but not limited to, preparing & making market facing presentations, product demonstration, business/ tech consulting, proposal writing, site assessment, contracting and related activities.

- Supporting Marketing: contribute to the marketing strategy and deliver to the marketing programs. Support would be expected in all dimension of marketing including analyst & advisory relations, PR, social marketing, SEO, event based marketing, lead generation, podcasts/ videocasts etc. Key product artefacts will be a direct deliverable of the product mgmt. team, supported by VP Engineering.

- Supporting Finance operations: partner with the CEO to manage budgets, improve profitability, increase company valuation and control cashflow. Ensure financial discipline, deliver to KPIs for the functions under direct responsibility.

- Supporting Recruitment & HR operations: plan for & provide support in recruitment activities.

- Deliver and own capacity planning for functions under direct responsibility. VP Engineering would co-own the India HR activities around employee engagement, performance management, workforce administration, local compliances, exit management and employer branding.

Ideal Candidate An ideal candidate would:

- Be a proven leader, technologist, team manager, team player and a public speaker

- Have 15+ years of experience with a steep growth-record in B2B software space

- Have led complex software engineering and development functions in fast growing B2B SaaS space

- Be well-versed with the potential of Industry 4.0, especially with the chapter of Digital Manufacturing

- Have earned the respect of being a trusted advisor by the leaders of engineering, operations, supply chain, IT, OT functions in the industry

- Possess the hunger, passion and ability to create & sustain the next big phenomenon in the Manufacturing technology space

- Be excited about making business travel for 25 -50% of the time

OuOrganisation offers an informal working atmosphere with energetic people who enjoy being part of a rapidly growing and successful organisation. We have an open management culture in which we encourage all colleagues to contribute to the process of improving our products, services and processes.