Vice President - Technology - Startup

Our client, a household name in the start-up products space, is looking for a leader in technology thought and team leadership and outcome ownership, for leading their core platform team, as a VP.

Responsibilities:

- Vision: Building a vibrant technology culture via a shared strategic architecture vision, as the Chief Architect of the company.

- Mission: Driving the platform and product vision to life.

- Goals: Leading and delivering on the long-term road map for engineering and infrastructure efficiency.

- Execution: Building and sustaining core reusable technology that would ensure scalability, reliability, availability and resiliency for all the products running on the platform and power the enterprise's quest to remain technologically competitive as it extends its customer base and enhances customer experiences continuously.

- Assets: Owning all relevant platform technology and infrastructure, both internal (like Dev and staging environments, DevOps stacks, etc.) and client-facing (like production and HA / DR environments)

- Tools and frameworks: Leading a team of engineers and architects across DevOps, Site-Reliability, Product TechOps / NOC, Frameworks and Cloud Infrastructure teams.

- Thought leadership and industry presence: Representing technology branding and evangelism, as the face and voice of enterprise technology; sharing and evangelizing the technology strategy with internal and external entities, including employees, customers, partners, analysts, technical networks and investors.

- Team leadership: Helping build the technical talent brand of the company and in managing their portfolio of IP (intellectual property), via multiple media like blogs, conference presentations and tech media coverage.

Candidate persona mapping:

This role would be part of the Senior Leadership Team of the company, with plans to grow this person potentially into the CTO role in the near future. Our typical candidate for this role would be a person who:

- Is a Senior Technical Architect with 17 years- experience in Product-First Tech-First companies operating on a global scale, out of a total experience of about 19 years

a) Preferably, with rich experience working in Silicon Valley, USA

b) Rich experience in helping build platforms that have supported products built from scratch and which have scaled over time

c) Rich experience in helping deploy products on the SaaS model

- Has rich and diverse experience in platform technology areas like design and architecture, APIs and Microservices, cloud infrastructure (private, public, hybrid or multiple), security, scale, tooling and multiple frameworks

- Has an executive presence and strong communication skills

- Demonstrates technology thought leadership

- Demonstrates a record of leading a team of Architects, managing, mentoring and appraising them

- Is, preferably, a programming polyglot