Vice President of Engineering

Chance to join a series A start-up, with nearly $20 million in funding, this is a unique opportunity to join as a founding executive. Expand a Real Estate – Tech Product offering designed to help homeowners get the best results when selling a home requiring a complete makeover. The Leadership and Advisor team are composed of seasoned experts coming from reputable companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Chime, and LendingHome.

REMOTE: with office in San Francisco

Hamilton Porter, a boutique nationwide recruiting firm, has the privilege of being able to offer an amazing full-time salary paid + Equity job opportunity, to a talented and hardworking Engineering Executive. Unique opportunity to join at the beginning stages and help own the journey of what hopes to be a hugely innovative product offering. Looking for someone passionate and seasoned with scaling top performing Engineering divisions, delivering market-leading products, advising on high performance technology decisions, and showcasing a company culture of grit, integrity, problem solving, and compassionate servant-leadership. This role will report directly to the Founder and CEO.

Responsibilities:

Will lead the technical direction, architecture and execution of projects ranging from customer acquisition efficiency, to sales and operations productivity, to marketplace health and sustainability.

• Develop an intimate understanding of our customers and the problems they face when selling a home that needs massive renovations.
• Architect a technology vision, strategy, and roadmap, and lead the technology team and its business partners in effective execution.
• Choose the right technology stack for Sundae to support all areas of the business, with an emphasis on marketing/acquisition.
• Establish tools and frameworks to run usability and A/B tests for our digital properties (web, mobile, email).
• Design and implement optimization tests across our end-to-end customer funnel (from acquisition through lifecycle retention).
• Establish and manage tools to gain insights on customer behavior, tracking the data to influence and support our product development, marketing, and technology strategies and tactics.
• Build strong relationships with business groups and their leaders across the company, and develop a detailed understanding of their issues, challenges, and opportunities.
• Hire, train, develop and appraise staff to build a high performing team.
• Contribute to all phases of software development including ideation, prototyping, design, and implementation.

Qualifications:

• Background of experience building and delivering high-quality software systems.
• Proven ability to join an organization, ideally in the early company stages, understand the product and lay-out engineering goals both short term vs. long term, designing the technology road map and showcasing a successful completed company solution.
• Direct experience building technology solutions that enable growth and excellence across a business’ marketing, sales, operations, marketplace needs
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written; able to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Previous experience with coding skills, and strong knowledge in computer architectures, operating systems, and algorithms.
• Able to scale and grow world class engineering teams from scratch both on-shore and off-shore
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, or Engineering
• Experience with growth engineering is a plus

 

We Offer:

• Early-stage company Equity
• Competitive Salary ranging from $200K - $300K depending on background of experience and the amount of stock interested in
• Coverage on Medical Benefits, Dental and Vision
• Chance to be an Engineering Executive at an early stage start-up with an already profitable product offering primed for huge growth.

 

Join us, as we are set to disrupt a marketplace, our mission is to improve our clients livelihood serving them as their trusted one stop shop, managing the entire process of selling an acquired home with extensive property improvements.