VP Engineering(m/w/x)

Requirements

• Experience scaling B2B enterprise SaaS organizations
• Experience managing Directors and Engineering Managers
• Experience in reliable enterprise SaaS environments
• Exposure to industrial or manufacturing software
• CS degree or equivalent qualification
• Ability to evaluate architecture and platforms
• Experience modernizing multi-team architectures
• Skill in building predictable engineering systems
• Knowledge of modern AI approaches
• Residency in Germany or Europe
• Distributed leadership experience

Tasks

• Lead and scale a high-performing engineering organization
• Coach engineering managers, tech leads, and individual contributors
• Define clear expectations and growth paths for the team
• Maintain a high talent bar and culture of ownership
• Build a lightweight and high-trust delivery system
• Manage planning, forecasting, and dependency reporting
• Balance roadmap execution speed with architectural quality
• Direct technical strategy for the B2B SaaS platform
• Evolve cloud architecture and data-intensive workflows
• Establish standardized development paths for product teams
• Strengthen DevOps, SRE, and engineering excellence practices
• Improve release confidence, observability, and incident response
• Ensure enterprise-grade security and compliance posture
• Manage secure SDLC and vulnerability audits
• Represent the company's technical roadmap to enterprise customers
• Drive pragmatic AI adoption to enhance productivity
• Implement AI-assisted automation with clear data guardrails

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