VP, Engineering

Posted 22 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
215K-310K Annually
Expert/Leader
Big Data • Software
The Role
As the VP of Engineering, you will lead the development of Affinity's innovative CRM product and platform. You will ensure top performance through architectural direction, shape product roadmaps, and grow a high-performing engineering team while managing technical debt and driving strategic decisions within the organization.
Summary Generated by Built In

Join Affinity as we redefine how professionals manage and leverage their networks, transforming relationships into meaningful opportunities. You'll be part of a team focused on improving our core product and platform, making relationship intelligence indispensable through advanced data analytics. With our growing user base and expansion into new markets, we're more committed than ever to delivering relationship intelligence to professionals everywhere.

Your role and impact:

As the VP of Engineering at Affinity, you will report to the CTO and lead the development of our innovative CRM product and platform. Your strategic vision will ensure we build strong foundations that drive outstanding customer outcomes and promote cross-functional collaboration. Implementing the Product Operating Model is a top priority for our R&D team, and your leadership will be vital in facilitating and championing this change. You'll also direct our technical and architectural roadmap, ensuring peak performance and user experience through our suite of applications.

Key responsibilities:

  • Shape Product Roadmap: Collaborate with product and design leaders to establish a compelling future vision for our product, crafting a strategic roadmap that seamlessly integrates product, design, and engineering.
  • Lead Engineering Execution: Lead engineering execution, ensuring quality software and a delightful user experience through continuous, iterative development practices, while driving initiatives to refine our overall development approach and delivery processes.
  • Grow and Scale the Team: Shape the team's composition, specify hiring needs, and source and onboard engineers whose diverse technical abilities and soft skills contribute to well-rounded, cohesive teams.
  • Develop Teams: Guide and develop a high-performing team through leadership, coaching, and mentoring, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement while ensuring inclusive development opportunities for all team members.
  • Craft Technical Strategy: Develop a technical strategy and roadmap aligned with Affinity’s business and product needs, focusing on delivering high quality, great usability, fast performance across applications and APIs.
  • Manage Technical Debt: Lead company-wide prioritization of improvements to code quality, systems, and the engineering processes to support these.
  • Drive Strategic Decisions: Navigate complex discussions and drive decisions aligned with business context, product, architecture, design philosophies, and strategies.
  • Develop and Manage Department KPIs: Establish and monitor key performance indicators to ensure department goals are met.

Qualifications

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Affinity, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Required:

  • B2B SaaS enterprise company experience, with a proven track record leading engineering within complex, customer-focused product environments
  • 13+ years of experience building scalable web applications with large volumes of data and rich visualizations.
  • 8+ years in an engineering leadership role, at least at one point overseeing organizations of 60 or more, with experience in managing multiple teams through managers and team leads (growing managers of managers, ideally directors).
  • Experience developing, coaching and managing engineering leaders, such as Engineering Directors, Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers.
  • Care personally about the people you work with, and about helping them to grow and develop in their careers, while also challenging them when necessary.
  • Experience recruiting and closing engineering candidates.
  • Passion for designing, evolving, and optimizing the development process, ideally leveraging practices such as Kanban to help developers maintain a seamless workflow.
  • Balance thoughtfully between short-term business priorities and long-term investment and strategy.
  • Take pride in delivering an exceptionally high-quality product, ensuring outstanding functionality, while maintaining the platform’s overall performance and reliability.
  • You're excited to work collaboratively within engineering and across functional teams.
  • Articulate, confident, and persuasive communication skills, coupled with the ability to listen and prioritize diverse perspectives.

Nice to have:

  • Experience leading in organizations that leverage the Product Operating Model.
  • Experience working with Ruby, React, or PostgreSQL.
  • Experience working with CRM-type applications that deal with problems like entity resolution and designing data models to store lots of attributes across many entities.
  • Experience building data-intensive applications.

Tech stack

Our platform is built with React and TypeScript on the front end, and with Ruby and PostgreSQL on the back end. Our infrastructure is hosted by AWS and runs on Kubernetes. 

What you'll enjoy at Affinity:

  • We live our values as playmakers, obsessed with learning, caring personally about our colleagues and clients, are radically open-minded, and take pride in everything we do.
  • We pay your medical, dental, and vision insurance with comprehensive PPO and HMO plans. And provide flexible personal & sick days. We want our team to be happy and healthy :) 
  • We offer a 401k plan to help you plan for retirement.
  • We provide an annual budget for you to spend on education and offer a comprehensive L&D program – after all, one of our core values is that we're #obsessedwithlearning! 
  • We support our employee's overall health and well-being and reimburse monthly for things such as; Home Internet, Meals, and Wellness memberships/equipment.
  • Virtual team building and socials. Keeping people connected is essential.

Please note that the role compensation details below reflect the base salary only and do not include any equity or benefits. This represents the salary range that Affinity believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting, that it will pay for the posted job

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $215,000 to $310,000 USD. Within the range, individual pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant.

About Affinity

With more than 3,000 customers worldwide and backed by some of Silicon Valley's best firms, Affinity has raised $120M to empower dealmakers to find, manage, and close more deals. How? Our Relationship Intelligence platform uses the wealth of data exhaust from trillions of interactions between Investment Bankers, Venture Capitalists, Consultants, and other strategic dealmakers to deliver automated relationship insights that drive over 450,000 deals every month. We are are proud to have received Inc. and Fortune Best Workplaces awards as well as to be Great Places to Work certified for the last 5 years running. Join us on our mission to make it possible for anyone to cultivate and fully harness their network to succeed.

We use E-Verify

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
299 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Affinity’s patented technology structures and analyzes millions of data points across emails, calendars, and third-party sources to offer users the tools they need to automatically manage their most valuable relationships, prioritize important connections, and discover untapped opportunities. Affinity uses artificial intelligence to analyze relationship strength and illuminate the best paths to warm introductions. The platform also offers a holistic view of users’ networks in a centralized, automatically updated database without any manual upkeep. Founded in 2014, Affinity is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Affinity has raised $120M to date and is backed by leading investors including Menlo Ventures, Advance Venture Partners, 8VC and MassMutual Ventures.

It has over 2,700 customers in 70 countries, including venture capital firms such as Bain Capital Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, private equity firms such as SoftBank Group, investment bankers such as Woodside Capital Partners, financial services firms such as Fidelity Investments, real estate companies such as Tishman Speyer, insurers such as American Family Insurance and enterprises such as Nike, Qualcomm and Twilio.

Affinity has been named in Fortune Magazine's Best Workplaces, Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces and editor's number one pick, the Data Breakthrough Award, BIG Innovation Award and others

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