Vice President, Engineering

• Set the technical vision, architecture direction, and org structure for EIQ engineering
• Partner tightly with Product to execute on the EIQ product roadmap across product lines
• Hire, develop, and retain engineering talent, from ICs to managers with a consistently high bar
• Build and maintain a reliable, high-quality continuous delivery infrastructure and culture
• Drive the medium- and long-term strategic roadmap for your org, in partnership with senior leadership
• Represent engineering in cross-functional and executive conversations, including with CCC leadership

• 10–15+ years of experience leading technical teams, with meaningful time at the VP level or equivalent
• Team scale: Experience managing sizable engineering organizations (~100+ people), including multiple layers of management
• Cross-functional depth: Hands-on experience building and leading teams that span SWE, ML/AI, and data, not just one discipline
• Hiring and talent development: A track record of recruiting senior ICs and engineering managers; you've built benches, not just filled seats
• Architecture fluency: Strong system design instincts; you can go deep when it matters and set direction when it doesn't
• Modern AI tooling: Fluency with LLMs and agentic development patterns, you work this way yourself and expect your team to as well
• Cloud infrastructure: Production experience on GCP or AWS
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication; you can translate technical complexity for any audience

High EQ and Character

• Extreme self-starter, you identify what needs to happen and make it happen
• Hold yourself and your team to a very high bar; inspires excellence without burning people out
• Open to giving and receiving direct, candid feedback
• Creative and resourceful, energized by problems that haven't been solved before
• Kind, empathetic, and professional; a culture carrier, not just a culture fit

Communication & Collaboration

• Excellent written and verbal communication, you can translate technical complexity for any audience
  Strong partner to Product; you know how to align on priorities without losing engineering integrity
• Comfortable operating in a dual-context environment (EIQ startup culture + CCC enterprise scale)

Technical & Leadership

• Proven track record building and leading cross-functional engineering teams (SWE, ML/AI, data)
• Experience hiring and developing engineering managers and senior ICs; you've built the bench, not just filled seats
• Strong system design and architecture instincts, you can go deep when it matters
• Fluency with modern AI/LLM tooling and agentic development patterns; you work this way yourself
• Experience deploying production systems on GCP or AWS