US-VP of Engineering

MetaProp; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

H2 Corporation is seeking a Vice President of Engineering for the United States to build and scale the US engineering team, establish cadence and standards, and partner with executive leadership to drive the AI-native platform from the ground up. This is an early-stage leadership role with global scope and cross-border collaboration across Japan and Vietnam.

You will hire, mentor, and grow L3–L4 engineers, establish development processes, and ensure secure, reliable systems across web,

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams at scale.
• Experience shaping technical strategy and architecture for AI-enabled platforms.
• Proven ability to hire, coach, and grow senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution across web, AI, and platform initiatives for US engineering.
• Partner with Product, Design, Customer Success, Sales, and stakeholders to translate pain points into scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with CTO and global leaders to shape technical strategy and hiring standards.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical strategy

Hiring & mentoring

Platform architecture

AI/ML systems

Stakeholder management

Job description

H2 Corporation is an AI-native company modernizing one of the largest and most underserved industries in the world: construction. Founded in Tokyo in 2020 and now expanding globally, H2 is building the next generation AI-powered system of record for quoting and orders for the $13T global construction industry. Our AIS Platform automates takeoff, estimation and quoting, and orders workflows for the largest construction enterprises, helping the industry address a generational labor shortage with AI-driven productivity. We are backed by top-tier investors including NEA, JAFCO, and Spiral Capital, and MetaProp. We are currently a team of 120 members distributed across 5 offices globally, and are scaling rapidly across Japan and the United States. THE OPPORTUNITY: H2 is looking for a VP of Engineering, US to lead and scale our US engineering organization. You will lead H2's US engineering team while partnering closely with the CTO, CEO, Product, Design, and a Japan-based engineering leader who will oversee H2's Japan and Vietnam engineering teams. This role is about building: the US engineering team, the operating cadence, the technical standards, and the cross-border collaboration model H2 will use as it scales globally. You will help translate complex construction workflows into secure, reliable, AI-native products that solve real operational problems for general contractors. This is not a maintenance leadership role. You are joining early, building from the ground up, and helping define what great engineering looks like at H2 in the US.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Lead execution across key web, AI, and platform initiatives for H2's US engineering organization.
• Partner with Product, Design, Customer Success, Sales, and business stakeholders to translate customer pain points into scalable technical solutions.
• Partner with the CTO and global engineering leaders to shape technical strategy, architecture, execution, and competency-based hiring standards across H2's US product and platform priorities.
• Lead architectural decision-making across web applications, AI-enabled workflows, enterprise integrations, data models, and scalable platform systems.
• Hire, lead, coach, and develop H2's US engineering organization, with a focus on L3-L4-caliber engineers who can own complex projects, mentor others, and lead ambiguous technical work.
• Build a culture of ownership, urgency, technical excellence, and deep customer empathy.
• Establish practical development processes that improve execution without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
• I mprove visibility into US engineering progress, tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies.
• Build strong working models across US, Japan, and Vietnam teams, including async collaboration, shared standards, clear ownership boundaries, and clean handoffs across time zones.