VP, Engineering

<h1>Description </h1><p style="min-height:1.5em"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://IV.AI">IV.AI</a> enables the world’s most iconic businesses and executives with AI-Powered Decision Making via a global AI platform and incredible team. A US based company based in Los Angeles, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://IV.AI">IV.AI</a> is looking for a passionate, skilled, and driven VP of Engineering to join our growing team. We’re in the middle of a awkward growth spurt so we are looking for someone to come in and get their hands dirty with actively improving and managing our engineering processes and systems. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving hard problems, values clean architecture, and is eager to make an impact across the entire technical direction of the org. The role will be reporting directly into the CTO and will also take on management of engineering resources too.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1>What You’ll Do</h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead and scale the engineering team through strategic hiring, mentoring, and performance management</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Write and ship production code regularly - this is a hands-on technical leadership role <em>(all engineering roles in our org are expected to ship code)</em></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work directly with Product Managers to define and execute the technical roadmap</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Refine engineering processes, workflows, and best practices</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Drive architectural decisions and ensure technical excellence across all systems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with executive leadership to set technical vision and prioritize engineering initiatives</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Manage engineering budgets, resource allocation, and capacity planning</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Foster a strong engineering culture focused on innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own system reliability, performance, and security across the entire technology stack</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Report on engineering metrics, team health, and project progress to the CTO and executive team</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1>What We're Looking For </h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">5+ years of professional software development experience</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">2+ years of engineering management experience</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong experience with one of the following: Python or TypeScript</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong communication skills - written and verbal</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A collaborative spirit and desire to work cross-functionally</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Someone how is passionate about software engineering and mentoring/managing engineers</p></li></ul><h2>Nice to Have</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with AWS, GCP, or other cloud providers</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfort working in a startup or fast-moving environment</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Contributions to open source or side projects</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1>Benefits </h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Retirement Plan (401k)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work From Home</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3>We are…</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://IV.AI">IV.AI</a> is the world's leading language processing AI platform. We have grown fast, but aim to retain our scrappy nature that enabled us to build big AI models that outperform the industry standards. There are many companies right now that talk about the potential impact of AI while we hustle hard and have actually proven the benefits repeatedly.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3>Helpful</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">We help people become smarter by using AI or data generated by AI models - the increased human intelligence is driven via a polished AI product that makes sense of noisy social media data, documents, web data, podcasts, internal or external communications. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://IV.AI">IV.AI</a> takes problems that were previously too complex to manage because of the scope of the research and tracking needed to solve them and makes them easy to solve via high-quality data, easy to use tools and experienced, helpful teams.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3>Inclusive</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our inclusive culture values people regardless of their background, education or upbringing. In order to train machines to act appropriately, we need builders and contributors who are representative of the entire population. AI is only as good as the teams working on it and the training they receive. AI is incredibly powerful and human bias in the training process can be equally harmful to the world if the technology is not being managed by teams of people who are diverse and considerate.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3>Hardworking</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">In just 5 years <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://IV.AI">IV.AI</a> has built a scalable platform with 100s of AI solutions for Fortune 500 companies including Sony, Walmart, Toyota, Netflix, Time Warner, Fox, Capital One, Estée Lauder, to name a few.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3>Professional</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">Being professional and respectful of clients and coworkers is of the utmost importance. We work with blue-chip clients and with very sensitive data that requires care and diligence via our focused security systems and protocols.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3>Collaborative</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our employees are constantly problem-solving and assessing their own output to maximise delivery. It’s important that our team is always looking for the best way of addressing problems so we can manage customer expectations.</p>

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