VP of Engineering

Our client is a leading vertical SaaS company powering flexible workspaces globally. They serve thousands of customers across more than 70 countries and are backed by top growth equity partners. As they scale, they are rebuilding their engineering organization to drive greater velocity, focus, and impact for their customers.

Role Overview:

They are seeking an experienced VP of Engineering to guide a global engineering team through a pivotal organizational transformation. This is a high-impact leadership role focused on unifying the engineering organization, enhancing execution, and fostering a high-performance culture. This is far from a “steady state” role — you will be tasked with reshaping the organization, driving delivery excellence, raising technical standards, and developing a strong layer of engineering managers. You will collaborate closely with Product, the CTO, and company leadership to ensure that engineering operates as a predictable, strategic engine for business outcomes. If you thrive in times of change, enjoy building scalable organizations and systems, and value both high standards and high trust, this is the right opportunity for you.

Primary Duties: 

• Lead and evolve the engineering organization (~45 engineers), spanning product hubs, platform, and infrastructure teams
• Build a scalable org structure and enforce clear ownership, accountability, and performance standards
• Drive predictable delivery: enforce metrics (say/do ratio, cycle time, bug throughput) and deliver 90%+ of committed roadmap scope each quarter
• Partner with architects on platform scalability, reliability, and modernization
• Strengthen engineering management: mentor, grow, or upgrade the current leadership layer
• Build a culture of ownership, transparency, and results-with enough structure to scale, and enough trust to move fast

What You Bring as a Must:

• 10+ years in engineering leadership, including at least 5 years managing managers and/or directors
• Proven track record of scaling SaaS engineering teams (30-50+ engineers) in high-growth environments
• Deep expertise in operational execution, engineering metrics, and organizational design
• Strong people leadership skills with the ability to coach, delegate, and hold teams accountable
• Experience driving cultural transformation in underperforming or fragmented orgs

Preferred: 

• Experience in private equity-backed SaaS companies
• Familiarity with DORA metrics, agile at scale, and SRE practices
• Background in platform engineering or architecture is a plus

Why Join:

This is a rare opportunity to take full ownership of a global engineering organization on the verge of a major scale-up. You’ll be part of a leadership team deeply committed to quality, speed, and customer impact, and you’ll have the mandate to shape and build the engineering function that will make it happen.

(License No. 2709 from 17.01.2019)