Vice President of Engineering

Honeycomb; Canada; Remote; CAD 220,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Sabbatical after certain tenure

Equity / stock options

Professional development stipend

Home setup stipend and internet/phone

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Honeycomb in Canada is seeking an executive partner to shape strategy, lead the engineering organization, and guide product and market bets in an AI-driven era.

You’ll work with the product team and the CEO to sharpen bets, build alignment, and communicate direction across the company. This remote-first role relies on clear writing and strong presentations to keep the team energized and focused on execution.

Qualifications

• Shipped software using AI tools in the last 12 months.
• Led distributed teams and communicated effectively in writing and in person.
• Able to guide strategy and execution in a fast-changing environment.
• Experience at a larger company with startup-risk tolerance.

Responsibilities

• Shape strategy with the executive team and CEO, aligning product, technology, and market bets.
• Build alignment at the top and make the exec team truly committed to a shared direction.
• Lead a high-performing engineering organization and drive structural changes for the next phase.
• Explain engineering direction clearly to engineers, managers, and the wider company in writing and presentations.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategy alignment

AI/ML product shipping

Distributed teams

Change management

Developer tools

Risk tolerance

Communication (writing & in-person)

Tools

Honeycomb experience

AI tooling

Job description

• You’ll join the executive team as a full partner in setting strategy. Our exec team acts as a first team, working closely together to revise our strategy as the world changes
• Right now, it is changing often! You’ll bring a wealth of experience and an imagination of what’s possible, help sharpen our bets, and decide with your peers the most elegant way forward. Then you’ll shape a strong engineering org to deliver on these decisions
• 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

Benefits

• 100% covered medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, disability, and more
• Unlimited PTO, synchronous company break, paid sabbatical, and expressed minimum for time to recharge
• 401K retirement plans and fully paid life insurance
• Up to 16 weeks paid leave regardless of path to parenthood; flexible hours for returning parents and caregivers
• $10K to cover gaps in insurance, in support of adoption, surrogacy, preservation, and family-planning costs
• $600 per year to spend on the perks you care for most
• A stake in our success
• Generous new hire equity, and refresh grants
• Annual $1,500 development stipend; funding for cognitive coaching; and a focus on career pathing
• $500 new hire home setup stipend and $200/mo for wifi, phone and co-working

• You have a special talent for collaboration and improving executive teams
• You’ve shipped software with AI tools yourself within the last 12 months
• You’re comfortable with uncertainty, rapid change, and shaping new bets towards product-market fit
• You’re as interested in shaping strategy as in executing it
• You’ve led distributed teams and communicate well in writing and in person
• 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 care about developer tools and have good taste in them. (Having used Honeycomb is a bonus, not a requirement)
• You’ve led engineering through large scale changes in direction, not just growth
• You share our values