VP of Engineering

Ship fast, learn faster: You set the pace. Features go from idea to live in days, not sprints. You build a culture where speed is a feature and every bet is designed to be validated quickly.

AI-first engineering: At Influur, AI isn't a tool you reach for occasionally, it's how we breathe. You lead by example: you're deep in the foundational models, you know when to use GPT-4o vs. Claude vs. Gemini vs. something smaller and fine-tuned like Kimi, and you make sure the whole team works the same way. An engineer not using AI credits is a red flag.

Technical architecture: You own the decisions that let us scale without rebuilding. Infrastructure, APIs, data pipelines,you design systems that grow with the product, not against it.

Team leadership: You've built engineering teams from scratch: hiring, firing, and everything in between. You hire exceptional people, set a high bar, and create an environment where great engineers can learn while doing their best work. You lead with clarity and trust.

Product partnership: You sit next to the Founders, not behind them. You turn vision into a roadmap, push back when something doesn't make sense, and propose better paths when you see them.

Customer & Product Obsession: You stay close to customers, translate what they actually need into what gets built, and ship products that set the bar, not just meet it.

Reliability that earns trust: Sony Music and WMG depend on what we build. You make sure it works, without turning reliability into bureaucracy.

Deep, hands-on knowledge of foundational AI models, you know the landscape, the tradeoffs, and when to use which

Lean by nature, you do more with less, cut what doesn't matter, and never over-engineer

You've built through at least one 0→1 and one real growth phase

Strong backend and systems fundamentals, you can go deep when it counts

You can sit with a client, understand their pain fast, and translate it into something the team ships before the week is over

Low ego, high output