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VP Engineering
Owns engineering execution: hiring, velocity, quality, and the technical bar. The person an acquirer's CTO will talk to.
BuildLive OpsGrowth
Due-diligence relevance
Acquirers' CTOs read the VP Engineering's last 6 weeks of decisions and code reviews. A weak technical bar here is one of the most common reasons a strong product gets a low engineering valuation.
Responsibilities
- Hire and retain engineering talent
- Set the technical bar and own technical-debt strategy
- Own engineering velocity, quality, and on-call posture
- Represent engineering to the board and to strategic acquirers
- Final escalation on cross-team technical disputes
Inputs
- · CTO/CEO direction
- · Product roadmap
- · Customer signal
- · Engineering health metrics
Outputs
- · Engineering roadmap
- · Hiring plan
- · Tech-debt prioritisation
- · Board engineering update
Qualifications
- 10+ years engineering leadership
- Has scaled a team through Series A/B
- Hands-on enough to read PRs and call hard architectural decisions
- Strong written communication
KPIs
Engineering velocityChange failure rateHiring SLAMean time to restore