VP, Engineering - Hands-On AI & Lean Delivery

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Submittable is hiring a Vice President of Engineering who is deeply technical, works hands-on, and builds with AI every day. You will report to the CTO and run engineering day to day: delivery, quality, reliability, cost, and the people who make them happen.

We want a different VP than the old SaaS playbook; we intend to run engineering with a lean team, few layers, and higher output per engineer. This approach emphasizes deeper engineering work over headcount growth.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering with deep distributed systems experience.
• Proven leadership of lean, high-output teams.
• B2B SaaS and multi-tenant architectures experience is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication to executives and engineers.
• Experience shipping AI-enabled features and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Translate product roadmaps into delivery plans, priorities, and shipped software.
• Review pull requests, prototype, debug production issues, and build tooling.
• Lead a small, technically-hands-on engineering team with minimal layers.
• Define standards for architecture, testing, CI/CD, and incident response.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Customer Experience to ensure platform health.

Skills

AI in prod

Lean org leadership

Distributed systems

API design

Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Submittable is hiring a Vice President of Engineering who is deeply technical, works hands-on, and builds with AI every day. You will report to the CTO and run engineering day to day: delivery, quality, reliability, cost, and the people who make them happen.

We want a different VP than the old SaaS playbook; we intend to run engineering with a lean team, few layers, and higher output per engineer. This approach emphasizes deeper engineering work over headcount growth.