VP Engineering

Job Description:

• Collaborates with Product Management and other members of Bombora’s executive leadership to develop and meet organizational goals while supplying expertise and guidance on projects, operations, and systems.
• Drives the velocity of high-quality value to our ecosystem understanding and evangelizing that in today’s environment, when we deliver is often just as important as what we deliver.
• Structures tooling and assets for AI-effectiveness throughout our workflows in both effective and ethical ways to push the potential of our velocity while maintaining our quality standards and career paths for our engineers.
• Drives the evolution of our SDLC methods in collaboration with Product Management to meet the frontier needs of applied AI throughout the span of our processes.
• Contributes to Bombora’s overall technology strategy, advocating for technology initiatives that will drive business outcomes and long-term enterprise value.
• Maintains technical proximity by actively participating in reviews, analyses, and other issues at detailed levels in addition to the macro.
• Establishes, communicates, and implements engineering practices and security measures to ensure safe and effective operations.
• Fosters a collaborative work environment that promotes autonomy, transparency, adaptability, accountability, and a high degree of ownership.
• Inspires and encourages our technical staff and mentors technical directors and managers.
• Ensures that departmental decisions such as staffing, development, and organization, are aligned with Bombora’s business plan and vision.
• Effectively manages and communicates departmental objectives, priorities, trade-offs, and risks both within the department and to other stakeholders.
• Provides transparency at all times about what’s working well and what needs work, taking a metrics driven approach.

Requirements:

• 10 or more years of experience leading technical teams, ideally in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Experience in the ad-tech industry and its related technologies would be a big plus as would other business domains involving very highly scaled data management systems.
• Extensive experience collaborating with Product Management, Go-To-Market, and Success teams to achieve holistic goals for our customers.
• Strong proficiency with cloud platforms, distributed systems, and modern development frameworks for software development, data management, testing, DevOps, and security concepts.
• Extensive experience practicing, adapting, and evolving development methodologies to optimize velocity, quality, and team health; not just adherence to somebody’s favorite textbook.
• Excellent communication skills with a focus on bringing out the best in people in a highly distributed workforce environment.
• Experience with organizational development, planning, and budgeting processes.
• Experience with technical due diligence and M&A activities is a plus.
• Curiosity, humility, and a sense of humor.
• Loves a challenge!

Benefits:

• Equity (options)