Director, Development

Vertafore Career Center; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 155,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertafore, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, is seeking a visionary engineering leader to drive the development and technical strategy for its enterprise product suite. You will partner with product management and sales to design innovative solutions for strategic customers.

You will lead multiple engineering teams, shaping architecture, design, and technology decisions while mentoring engineers and delivering high-impact features that scale with customer needs.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple engineering teams
• Strong hands-on technical background in distributed systems
• Ability to design architecture and strategy for enterprise web delivery platforms

Responsibilities

• Lead development and technical strategy for enterprise products
• Partner with product management and sales to design solutions for strategic customers
• Attract, build, and retain high-performing engineering teams
• Influence design, architecture, and technology decisions across multiple teams
• Drive execution and mentorship to deliver features that delight customers

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Enterprise web platforms

Job description

$155,000 - $200,000 / year + Bonus

The insurance industry runs on Vertafore. We equip agencies, MGAs, and carriers with the core digital systems, specialized AI, and data-driven foundation to eliminate distribution drag across the insurance lifecycle, spanning sales, servicing, and back-office operations.

Underpinned by unmatched speed and performance power, we are the trusted backbone that’s taking the insurance industry from friction to flow with Distribution Velocity – speed, performance, and trust - to drive growth at scale.

With over 95% of the top agencies and insurers and 50% of industry compliance transactions running through Vertafore, we lead at the intersection of innovation and trust, giving insurance professionals the confidence to transform and win in the AI era.

Our reach is global, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a key member of the product development leadership team, you will lead the development and technical strategy for our enterprise products. Partnering with product management and sales, you will interact with strategic customers designing innovative solutions that meet their business needs.

You will lead multiple teams of amazing engineers, influence manyothersand provide leadership on design and architecture, strategy, and technology approaches. We expect you to be an accomplished engineer, have stronghands ontechnicalexperienceand deep knowledge in one or more areas of distributed systems and enterprise web delivery platforms. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success andFUNand you will be adding your creativity and energy to it. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to makeimpactinyour career.

If you love technology, leadership, being on the frontline of technical innovation, and are looking for a creative,funand friendly workplace where you get to develop software that will transform the insurance industry, we would love toget in touch withyou.

CoreRequirements andResponsibilities:

Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:

• Effectively manage relationships (up, down, across) and able to roll-up their sleeves to get the job done
• Influence across boundaries and at all levels of the organization
• Think strategically to help drive features and services for short and long-term growth
• Create a fun, fast paced, motivating and rewarding environment for their teams and the organization
• Attract,buildandretaina highly engaged and capable development teams that can deliver on our technology and business strategies
• Think end-to-end by connecting all the pieces of the business (development, product management, QA, operations, etc.) to deliver the features to delight the customer whileleveragingall available assets
• Provide strong people management: attracting,retaining, inspiring and growing individuals;demonstratea passion for people development and mobility
• Creatively turn problems and solutions on their heads tocome up withbetter designs, better technical solutions, better products
• Closely follow industry trends and theopen sourcecommunity
• Other duties as assigned