We are looking for a VP of Engineering to our client’s Growth domain.
Start: ASAP
Length: 6 months
Location: Must be in Stockholm on-site minimum 3 days per week
Job Summary:
You'll play a business critical and vital part in driving both their B2C and our B2B offerings further. They are growing both in terms of engineers, clients and complexity - and they are excited to see you come in and hit the ground running with both technical leadership, stakeholder management and commercial understanding.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic planning and cross-functional collaboration: You can expect to set technical roadmaps for the Growth domain, lead change, and execute strategic initiatives with the teams and other stakeholders.
- Comprehensive team and talent management: You'll hire, mentor, coach and develop a diverse team of high-caliber engineering talent and managers.
- Agile development and execution: We expect you to ensure the engineering teams are delivering high-quality products on time by setting clear goals and timelines.
- Stakeholder engagement: You'll engage with a range of stakeholders essential to gather insights that fuel innovative product solutions tailored to growth domain needs.
Requirements:
- A proven technical leader capable of the technical roadmap: You have extensive progressive technology leadership experience and demonstrated leadership in a dynamic, growth-oriented company. We think you have previously held roles like Director, VP, CTO or similar roles where you have managed technical managers.
- Deep expertise in enterprise SaaS: You possess a robust comprehension of B2B SaaS dynamics, ideally including product-led growth strategies and enterprise sales cycles. You have been a driving force in focused efforts which have benefited enterprise clients, and you're excited to apply that experience in technical and business driven decisions.
- Drive for results: We will count on you to exceed goals successfully, to be bottom-line oriented, to steadfastly push yourself and others for results.
- Communication and stakeholder management: You're confident in your outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills. You have proven experience of navigating diverse stakeholders in a complex web of collaboration.
Preferred Qualifications/ Bonus Skills:
- Exceptional people leadership and technical talent management: We expect you to have extensive experience as a manager of engineers and a proven track record of success in leading and developing engineering teams to achieve outsized gains/improvements.
- Velocity: You can execute at speed, and empower their team to also navigate with high intensity. You possess a deep understanding of engineering processes and methodologies.
- Contribute with experience: You have significant experience driving architectural decisions for hyper-growth and global scale. You can articulate the long-term technical vision that enables aggressive commercial goals and future product expansion.
