VP of Engineering

Company: Tilt
Location: Denver
Posted on: February 12, 2025

Job Description:

VP of Engineering @ TiltTilt is looking for a VP of Engineering to join our team and help us scale our business by driving measurable outcomes in engineering execution, team performance, and organizational scalability. You will translate strategic priorities into operational success, ensuring engineering delivers secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions. Partnering closely with the CTO, you will lead efforts to align engineering capabilities with business goals to drive innovation and achieve customer satisfaction. This position is a full-time role reporting to our CTO. We want you to be successful here at Tilt! Below is a description of your role and responsibilities.Roles & Responsibilities

• Leading the implementation of scalable and performant architectures, keeping tech debt to manageable levels and improving system throughput.
• Developing and mentoring Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers to own key technical decisions, fostering accountability and alignment across teams.
• Ensuring systems maintain at least 99.9% uptime and meet defined performance SLAs, with a goal of improving reliability over time.
• Establishing clear technical goals for engineering leaders, ensuring progress toward innovation and scalability.
• Collaborating with Engineering Managers to create a consistent approach to technical design reviews and mentorship, improving technical standards across the organization.
• Driving cross-team initiatives to adopt best practices in coding, testing, and operational excellence, leading to managing defects to acceptable levels.
• Encouraging Staff Engineers to lead technical deep dives, workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions, elevating the technical expertise of the entire team.
• Collaborating with security to meet compliance and regulatory requirements, maintaining certifications like SOC 2 with no major audit findings.
• Building a high-performing team with engagement scores trending above 80+, and contribute to maintaining regrettable retention of top talent above 95%.
• Developing engineering leaders to own and deliver on key objectives in alignment to long term goals, ensuring successful delivery of engineering initiatives are driven independently by cross-functional empowered teams.
• Collaborating with People & Culture to enhance the career progression framework by establishing clear and proactive tools that empower individuals to self-assess their growth areas, align with their managers on developmental goals, and build competencies effectively.
• Ensuring all team members have a clear understanding of their responsibilities and accountabilities, fostering transparency and alignment across roles.
• Aligning with Product and Design to deliver on customer-focused roadmaps, achieving at least 85% successful completion of quarterly priorities.
• Partnering with Sales and Customer Success to reduce priority-1 customer-reported issues and maintain low post-launch defect rates.
• Facilitating seamless cross-team communication, reducing misaligned or delayed initiatives.You're a great fit if
  • You have B2B SaaS experience at a Series B scaleup or equivalent.
  • You have demonstrated experience driving integrations and collaborating with partners, vendors, platforms, or ecosystems to deliver seamless solutions.
  • You have the proven ability to scale engineering teams from 30 to 50+ while delivering consistent business outcomes.
  • Demonstrated experience managing nearshore and contract staff to effectively augment core teams while maintaining quality and accountability.
  • Track record of leading organizations to measurable improvements in engineering efficiency, reliability, and security.
  • Experience building high-performing teams with clear accountability and continuous improvement practices.
  • Experience in HRTech, FinTech or HealthTech is a plus.
  • You have high levels of empathy and can connect deeply with Tilt's mission.
  • You are fearlessly flexible and curious; aka you thrive in an environment where we don't have all the answers but are willing to help us figure them out.Virtues/Competencies
  • Health & Family First: You balance work and personal life effectively, get things done at a pace consistent with business needs, show up and are reliable, and encourage others to prioritize their health and family.
  • Autonomy + Team. Always: You are highly organized and can manage multiple priorities and deadlines at once, focused on scale and building while understanding that pace is equally as important as quality.
  • Be Curious: When you don't have all of the answers, you dig in and ask questions, assuming positive intent and finding the truth.
  • Love Our Customers: You show empathy and compassion, striving to meet people where they are to offer maximum support.
  • Fearlessly Flexible: You adapt to change and deal with ambiguity, working without clear direction.Total CompensationThe projected annual salary range is $200,000 - $250,000 USD plus stock options (ISOs), because we believe everyone should have some stake in our business. We are people-first and we truly care about our people.Additional benefits include:
    • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits paid at 100% for all employees and 50% for dependents.
    • 401k + match (100% match on the first 3%, 50% match on the next 2%).
    • $100 monthly to spend on "What Matters Most."
    • Responsible Time Off - take what you need, when you need it!More about TiltTilt's mission is big: make leave not suck. We are building a product that makes it easy for people to switch between work and life. If you join us, you'll be part of a fearless band of humans helping employers balance empathy with economics. We're changing the status quo and it's hard. You should know that now. You should also know that joining Tilt means the opportunity to be a change-maker.Remote Work & FlexibilityWe are a fully remote company, committed to being fearlessly flexible and ensuring that all employees are set up and have the autonomy to do their best work, as well as have the balance to care for their health, family, and life outside of work. Overall, we trust our team and are focused on outcomes not outputs.Equal Opportunity EmployerWe celebrate and support our differences. We believe in the power of equality which is why we are an equal opportunity employer. Employment at Tilt is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications related to their professional competence. Tilt does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by law. We comply with all applicable national, state, and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity.You must be authorized to work in the US.So what do you say? Do you want to join our team?
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