VP, Engineering

Honeycomb is hiring a VP of Engineering to help shape company strategy and lead the engineering organization through rapid changes in software and AI. The role partners with the CEO, product leaders, and the executive team to set direction, build alignment, communicate change, and focus engineering talent on the company’s biggest opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Shape the strategy. Form your own view of where the product, technology and market are heading. Bring it to your closest partners: product and the CEO, and to the wider exec team. Some of our bets will need sharpening, and some new ones will need making
• Build alignment at the top. We believe our strength as a company depends on the strength of our exec team. We want you to make our exec team better, and for your first team to be the exec team. You’ll work closely with product and the CEO, challenging and being challenged in return, until the team is truly committed to a shared direction
• Help the whole org to make sense of fast change. When the ground moves quickly, people need help understanding what is changing and why. Burnout is high in our industry, and we want to keep our people motivated, excited to come to work, and with their full creativity and energy. You’ll explain engineering’s direction clearly and repeatedly, to engineers, managers, the exec team, and the rest of the company. We’re remote-first, so much of this happens in writing and in presentations
• Lead a high-performing team into what’s next. We have strong managers, directors, and ICs. You’ll aim that talent at our biggest opportunities and adjust the org’s structure, goals, and ways of working to be continually more effective. You’ll do this without losing what makes the team great
• Lead from technical credibility. You can’t lead an AI era shift without a deep understanding of the ergonomics of the landslide of change underway

Requirements:

• You've led engineering through large scale changes in direction, not just growth
• You've shipped software with AI tools yourself within the last 12 months
• You have a special talent for collaboration and improving executive teams
• You're as interested in shaping strategy as in executing it
• You've worked at a larger company, and know what breaks as companies scale. But have a risk tolerance of someone from an early stage startup
• You're comfortable with uncertainty, rapid change, and shaping new bets towards product-market fit
• You've led distributed teams and communicate well in writing and in person
• You care about developer tools and have good taste in them
• Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time
• Having used Honeycomb is a bonus, not a requirement