• 13+ years of experience building scalable web applications with large volumes of data and rich visualizations
• 8+ years in an engineering leadership role, overseeing teams of 10 or more, with experience in managing multiple teams through managers and team leads
• Experience developing, coaching and managing engineering leaders, such as Engineering Directors, Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers
• Care personally about the people you work with, and about helping them to grow and develop in their careers, while also challenging them when necessary
• Experience recruiting and closing engineering candidates
• Passion for designing, evolving, and optimizing the development process, ideally leveraging practices such as Kanban to help developers maintain a seamless workflow
• Balance thoughtfully between short-term business priorities and long-term investment and strategy
• Take pride in delivering an exceptionally high-quality product, ensuring outstanding functionality, while maintaining the platform’s overall performance and reliability
• You're excited to work collaboratively within engineering and across functional teams
• Articulate, confident, and persuasive communication skills, coupled with the ability to listen and prioritize diverse perspectives

Desirable

• Join Affinity as we redefine how professionals manage and leverage their networks, transforming relationships into meaningful opportunities
• You'll be part of a team focused on improving our core product and platform, making relationship intelligence indispensable through advanced data analytics
• With our growing user base and expansion into new markets, we're more committed than ever to delivering relationship intelligence to professionals everywhere
• As the VP of Engineering at Affinity, you will report to the CTO and lead the development of our innovative CRM product and platform
• Your strategic vision will ensure we build strong foundations that drive outstanding customer outcomes and promote cross-functional collaboration
• Implementing the Product Operating Model is a top priority for our R&D team, and your leadership will be vital in facilitating and championing this change
• You'll also direct our technical and architectural roadmap, ensuring peak performance and user experience through our suite of applications
• Shape Product Roadmap: Collaborate with product and design leaders to establish a compelling future vision for our product, crafting a strategic roadmap that seamlessly integrates product, design, and engineering
• Lead Engineering Execution: Lead engineering execution, ensuring quality software and a delightful user experience through continuous, iterative development practices, while driving initiatives to refine our overall development approach and delivery processes
• Grow and Scale the Team: Shape the team's composition, specify hiring needs, and source and onboard engineers whose diverse technical abilities and soft skills contribute to well-rounded, cohesive teams
• Develop Teams: Guide and develop a high-performing team through leadership, coaching, and mentoring, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement while ensuring inclusive development opportunities for all team members
• Craft Technical Strategy: Develop a technical strategy and roadmap aligned with Affinity’s business and product needs, focusing on delivering high quality, great usability, fast performance across applications and APIs
• Manage Technical Debt: Lead company-wide prioritization of improvements to code quality, systems, and the engineering processes to support these
• Drive Strategic Decisions: Navigate complex discussions and drive decisions aligned with business context, product, architecture, design philosophies, and strategies
• Develop and Manage Department KPIs: Establish and monitor key performance indicators to ensure department goals are met