Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, the VP Engineering will oversee the entire engineering organization for the Teamleader product. You’ll lead engineering for our customer facing SaaS application – an extensive SaaS solution for small business across Europe – a suite or public and private API’s, our mobile application, a devops team, quality assurance and much more.

Teamleader is a fast spaced scale up that serves the daily needs of thousands of small businesses across Europe. You’ll be able to have a massive impact throughout the entire organization immediately by driving and implementing meaningful change.

Partner with the CPO to establish, execute, and achieve the company’s technical vision

• Actively recruit, hire, and retain excellent engineering talent

• Define and shape engineering best practices

• Work closely with Product to continuously deliver well-crafted, working software that creates real business value

• Ensure that the team is in alignment with business needs via OKRs, roadmaps, and constant feedback

• Collaborate on key architectural decisions and design considerations to ensure high quality, scalability, maintainability, and resiliency

• Coach and provide guidance to senior engineering leaders on management and technical tracks

Requirements

Professional Qualifications (What You Have)

• You’ve managed technical teams at scale including Engineering, QA, and Devops

• You have deep experience with modern technologies, architectures, and agile development

• You have experience thriving within fast growing organization

• You are a proven leader who can build and manage a strong team and set vision with technical expertise to back it up

• Proven ability and success creating a collaborative culture of innovation and technical excellence

• You’ve managed groups of 50+ across multiple countries

Personal Characteristics (Who You Are)

• You thrive in entrepreneurial environments

• Highly effective at creating collaborative relationships across an entire organization

• High energy and action-oriented with a history of getting things done in complex environments

• Results oriented, tenacious, but with the ability to know when to push harder and when to look for alternative approaches

• Values integrity, humility, creativity, confidence, open-mindedness, reliability