VP Engineering
Our culture is a team-first mentality built on the Core Values of Integrity, Humility, Take Action, Think Big, and Ownership and shared by every single employee. At GRIN, we expect everyone to do the right thing, which instills trust and allows us to tackle the big issues and make things happen. We move fast, because in our industry, time is our biggest opponent. We aren’t afraid to ship quickly and make changes down the road. We empower our employees to make decisions with no red tape and no fear of reprisal, as long as they take ownership and adapt along the way.
At GRIN, we don’t just accept differences — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our product and our community. We strive to make our workplace an inclusive and diverse environment, giving people from all walks of life the opportunity to have a voice. We champion and encourage those who bring different perspectives, ideas, and creativity to join our team dedicated to bringing people together across the globe. GRIN is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where we welcome all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, or other lived experience. GRIN is headquartered in Sacramento, CA, yet has a “Remote First” work policy and culture, meaning remote work is the default. Our Core Business Hours are 9am-3pm PST, so we expect all of our employees to work at least during those hours and are flexible on the rest of your hours.
GRIN is seeking a Vice President of Engineering. We are a fast-paced, fun organization going through rapid growth and solving technical challenges at an exponential scale.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead and grow our Software Engineering, DevOps/SRE, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Quality Assurance, and technical program management teams
- Modernize our infrastructure and software development practices and keep them up-to-date in alignment with latest technologies and best practices
- Optimize our cloud computing costs to bring GRIN into alignment with typical Best-in-SaaS metrics
- Ensure that our platform can scale in concert with the business, sustaining high-double to triple-digit customer growth rates
- Ensure GRIN’s software is of the highest quality and minimizes defects in production
- Ensure GRIN is fault-tolerant and has a ready-to-go disaster recovery plan
- Ensure compliance with SOC2, ISO27001, PCI DSS, GDPR/CCPA, and social platform terms-of-service and other requirements as appropriate
- Build a high performance engineering culture where GRIN is a workplace of choice for software engineers
- Be able to execute upon technology partnerships or integrate acquired technologies into the GRIN platform
- Own the end-to-end adoption and customization of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) within GRIN across all of the product and technology teams
- Define and own an end-to-end planning cadence to execute upon our product strategy leveraging a 3-year long-term, 1-year medium-term, and 1-quarter high-precision views
- Implement a dual-track agile structure to facilitate research and ideation a quarter in advance of delivery
- Ensure consistent, predictable, and quality delivery across all product and technology teams whereupon a high quality Definition of Done is consistently met
What You’ll Bring:
- At least 15-20 years of experience in software product development engineering leadership roles inclusive of production operations experience in a SaaS environment
- Experience leading and growing technology teams of 100+ team members
- Experience implementing PMO/program management functions in a software development environment – preferably SaaS (please no management consulting or IT PMO-only experiences)
- Proven familiarity and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and customizing it to meet the contextual needs of an individual organization
- Strong budget management skills with experience managing a $10MM+ budget
- Ability to serve in an outward facing ambassadorial role to our Go-to-Market teams, customers
- Experience working with and managing third party auditors
- Extraordinary project management skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; ability to condense complex information into simple language for the appropriate audience.
- You have excitement for building up teams.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity, autonomy, and responsibility; you enjoy figuring out what needs to be done—and then doing it.
- Experience at a fast-growing startup in a cross-functional environment
- Proactive, self-starter with the ability to multi-task and work independently at all levels in the organization
We recognize the imposter syndrome might show its head as you read through this job description and although you might not check every box, we don’t want to miss out on the possibility of speaking with a perfectly imperfect candidate. So if you think you have what it takes – apply today and let’s discuss!
We recognize the imposter syndrome might show its head as you read through this job description and although you might not check every box, we don’t want to miss out on the possibility of speaking with a perfectly imperfect candidate. So if you think you have what it takes – apply today and let’s discuss!
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 16 days of PTO + 10 Sick Days + 14 paid holidays
- Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
- 401(k) program plus match
- Paid Child Bonding Leave
- Home Office set up
- Career Development Reimbursement
- Employee Stock Option Program
- Career path opportunities in a great startup environment
- Tons of growth opportunity
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