Vice President - Software Engineering - eCommerce

Key Responsibilities

- Manage financial budgets for engineering, QA, and all product infrastructure.

- Work very closely with product management and engineering leadership to map out and plan product roadmaps.

- Build hiring plans based on the product roadmap, company objectives, security and compliance requirements, quality standards, etc-

- Improve programs for onboarding new employees, on-going career training and career progression, tracking and addressing underperforming employees, and keeping everyone generally excited about their jobs.

- Performs occasional reorgs to accommodate departmental growth, or employees switching teams and/or changing roles.

- Help design optimal work processes (and help maintain tools like JIRA) that keep engineering and QA organized and agile, and also provide visibility and predictability for other departments.

- Oversee devops, release ops, and security and compliance programs. Ensure these programs scale as grows.

- Help plan the company's technology strategy alongside the CTO and other key engineering leaders.

- Represent engineering and QA in all exec meetings, providing continual visibility on objectives, timelines, initiatives, etc- (in both directions).

- Be an advocate for unit testing, automated testing, giving employees time to learn about new techs, minimizing technical debt, refactoring old code, coming up with better architectures, etc-

- Proactively attend conferences, training, etc- to stay relevant in a constantly evolving industry.

Key Skills :

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering

- 7+ years of experience in management

- Intelligent & very hard working

- Great people and communication skills

- Proven track record attracting and retaining top talent

- Excellent process design and organizational skills

- A visionary, analytical decision maker