VP of Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Department: Leadership

Location Type: IN_OFFICE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

• Drive technical and operational excellence across the engineering function and broader org through culture, process, and systems
• Hire and retain an industry leading technical team to advance Transluce’s mission
• Build engineers’ and managers’ careers across the org
• Work with technical staff and leadership across Transluce to create strong clarity and alignment around goals, priorities, and roadmaps, at both the org-level and team-level
• Manage competing priorities and identify and explain trade-offs, advocating for what’s best for the organization
• Clearly communicate Transluce’s mission, strategy, and technical direction internally and externally; know how each new hire would come to the team and contribute to that vision
• Facilitate effective collaboration within and across teams
• Set vision and prioritization for core infrastructure; work with senior engineers to design the overall platform/technical stack 

• Able to operate on a 12+ month time horizon for organizational design, technical strategy, and overall org theory of change
• Can hire and inspire senior engineers, researchers and managers by being someone they can learn and grow from
• Articulates and argues for a clear perspective, but is prepared to disagree and commit
• Past experience in a similar role: taking a small, fast-growing company from 20 to 40+ as a senior leader working with one or more layers of management below them
• Strong management skills with an ability to both directly line manage teams and mentor and lead managers
• Not afraid to get into the technical details where relevant, but also able to make good decisions without knowing every detail