VP Engineering

Your Role: The Vice President of Engineering will plan, direct, coordinate, and oversee activities in the Engineering department. You will be closely with the CTO, founders and other VP/C-suite. The Engineering team is 100% distributed and remote.  This role will be reporting directly to the CTO.   Things You Get To Do: Oversee all product engineering teams Establish/refine systems and processes Own processes for recruiting, incident response, incident review, talent performance management, technical design, development processes, deployment processes, architecture, and organizational structure evolution Grow engineering team from 60 to 120 engineers this year and 300 engineers next year Direct Reports: Directors, Eng Mgrs, and TLM Must have experience at scale (both high performance, highly available systems) and ventures that have gone through significant scale and/or growing pains Create alignment across engineering, drive urgency and importance of high value problems Establishes, communicates, protects and implements engineering policies, practices, standards, and security measures to ensure effective and consistent operations Establishes and implements the strategic direction of the engineering team  Create accountability and own engineering metrics Establishes and administers the engineering budget   Who You Are (Must-Haves): Bachelor's Degree in Engineering required; MBA preferred At least ten years of related experience required Previous experience at Director, VP, CTO level at an organization with tremendous engineering scale Prior leadership skills and engineering teams management experience >100 people Excellent verbal and written communication skills Extensive knowledge of engineering principles and procedures Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail Excellent time management skills Strong analytical, data driven and problem-solving skills How We Take Care of You: Competitive Salary & Stock Options Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care.  Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.    New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.