VP, Engineering in United States at Jobgether
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Job Description
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a VP, Engineering based in the United States.
This is a senior leadership role responsible for guiding a fast-scaling engineering organization in a complex, mission-driven healthcare environment. The VP of Engineering will shape technical strategy, operational excellence, and delivery execution across multiple product and platform teams. This leader will play a critical role in modernizing systems, strengthening engineering culture, and enabling AI-driven innovation across the organization. They will partner closely with Product, Data, Clinical, Security, and Executive teams to translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions. The role requires balancing hands-on architectural thinking with high-level organizational leadership. Success in this position directly impacts patient outcomes, care delivery efficiency, and overall platform reliability. It is an opportunity to build and lead a high-performing engineering function in a high-growth, high-impact setting.
The VP, Engineering will be responsible for defining and executing the engineering vision while ensuring strong delivery discipline, scalable architecture, and organizational effectiveness across teams.
- Lead and scale the engineering organization, including hiring, mentoring, and developing engineering managers, directors, and senior ICs to build a high-performing, mission-aligned team.
- Establish and continuously improve engineering operating systems, including planning, delivery execution, release management, incident response, and post-release learning loops.
- Drive technical strategy and architecture evolution, enabling a transition toward modern, scalable, and AI-enabled platform capabilities.
- Ensure delivery predictability and execution excellence by setting clear standards for planning, prioritization, and cross-team accountability.
- Partner with Product, Data, Clinical, Security, Legal, and Operations teams to translate business needs into executable technical roadmaps.
- Define engineering standards across quality, security, observability, compliance, and reliability while ensuring consistent application across teams.
- Lead modernization initiatives, including platform integration, interoperability improvements, and system simplification to support long-term scalability.
- Introduce and operationalize effective AI-enabled engineering practices with measurable impact on productivity, quality, and speed.
- Oversee vendor and partner engagements while maintaining strong internal ownership of architecture and technical direction.
- Establish strong stakeholder communication practices, ensuring transparency, alignment, and accountability at the executive level.
This role requires a highly experienced engineering leader with a strong track record of scaling organizations, driving execution excellence, and leading complex technical transformations in regulated or high-impact environments.
- 14+ years of combined software engineering and technical leadership experience, including significant experience leading engineering organizations at scale.
- 8+ years of experience in people leadership roles managing managers and directors, with a proven ability to build, grow, and retain high-performing teams.
- Demonstrated success improving engineering execution, delivery predictability, and operational rigor across multiple teams or domains.
- Experience building and evolving engineering operating models, including planning, SDLC processes, incident management, and release governance.
- Strong architectural and systems thinking, with the ability to guide modernization of complex, distributed platforms.
- Proven ability to partner effectively with executive stakeholders across product, operations, and technical functions.
- Experience working in healthcare, healthtech, or other regulated environments strongly preferred, especially where compliance, privacy, and reliability are critical.
- Familiarity with AI-enabled engineering workflows and ability to introduce scalable, measurable AI adoption within engineering organizations.
- Excellent communication, influence, and organizational leadership skills, with the ability to align cross-functional teams around shared outcomes.
- Strong judgment, execution discipline, and ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
- Willingness to travel and engage in periodic onsite collaboration as needed to support business and leadership priorities.
- Hybrid-remote work flexibility with a combination of remote work and onsite collaboration as needed
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- Competitive base salary with performance-based bonus eligibility
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid time off, holidays, sick leave, and extended leave options (including parental and sabbatical leave)
- Mental health support, employee assistance programs, and wellness resources
- Annual professional development stipend to support learning and career growth
- Family-forming benefits and fertility support programs
- Financial wellness tools and additional voluntary insurance options
- Inclusive, mission-driven culture focused on collaboration, impact, and continuous improvement.