Vice President of Engineering

Honeycomb; United States; Remote; USD 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Sabbatical

401K retirement plan

Life insurance

Parenting and caregiver leave

Development stipend

Equity stake

Home setup stipend

Job summary

Honeycomb is seeking an executive leader to join the full leadership team as a partner in setting strategy. You’ll help sharpen bets, shape an engineering org, and align product, technology, and market direction with the CEO and the wider exec team.

As a remote-first company, you’ll guide a distributed team through rapid change, driving clarity and motivation while delivering impact across the organization.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading at executive level and shaping strategy.
• Ability to align product, technology, and market bets with the CEO.
• Track record building and guiding a high-performing engineering org.
• Comfort with rapid change and ambiguity in a remote-first company.

Responsibilities

• Shape strategy with peers and the CEO to steer the company direction.
• Lead a distributed engineering team and align org structure with bets.
• Communicate engineering plans clearly to executives and managers.
• Drive focus to reduce burnout and maintain motivation across teams.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategy shaping

Cross-functional collaboration

Distributed teams

AI tooling experience

Tools

AI tools knowledge

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 share our valuesYou’ve shipped software with AI tools yourself within the last 12 monthsYou’re comfortable with uncertainty, rapid change, and shaping new bets towards product-market fitYou have a special talent for collaboration and improving executive teamsYou’re as interested in shaping strategy as in executing itYou’ve led distributed teams and communicate well in writing and in personYou’ve worked at a larger company, and know what breaks as companies scale. But have a risk tolerance of someone from an early stage startupYou 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