Vice President of Engineering

About Scratchpad ✨

At Scratchpad, our mission is to make salespeople happy. We believe we can do that by reducing complexity and creating delightful experiences, which has led us to pioneer the first workspace for revenue teams. We take the most tedious parts of daily work and turn them into efficient, delightful experiences that positively impact salespeople's professional and personal lives. But don’t take our word for it - read what our customers and top-tier investors are raving about.

Life at Scratchpad

The Scratchpad team is defined by our values: simplicity, ideas, results, speed, delight, and people. We profoundly care about our customers, the work we do, and each other. You'll constantly be learning from your colleagues as we have a strong culture of feedback. We believe it's part of what has made us successful as a "remote first" company.

As our first VP of Engineering, you will help us lead the engineering team through a stage of rapid growth, focusing on designing and scaling a strong organization. You are a systems thinker who will play an integral role on the leadership team and partner with others to manifest product vision and strategy into reality. Your passion for people management and growth will enable you to lead a world-class team with empathy and humility.

The role will oversee the engineering team and will report to the Cofounder & CTO.

About You

• Empathetic leader - Dedicated leader who listens to the team and involves them in how the engineering org is shaped; thinks about building cohesive pods

• Mentor and coach - People builder who can develop and stretch folks in ways they didn’t know possible and proliferates a coaching culture. Constructs and executes compelling development plans.

• Systems thinker - Use first-principle thinking and constantly ask “why”. Drive decisions with user data.

• Process guru - Iterate on the processes that guide how we ship software with the teams involvement to ensure we ship at a high velocity while maintaining a high bar on quality.

• Modern engineering org leader - Understands that it’s not just technology that is constantly being improved. How software is built is also constantly evolving and you’re interested in learning about it.

• Organization design maven - Understands that companies ship the org chart. Capable of collaborating with product and design to design the PED organization, delivering value optimally for the business.

• Hires world class candidates - Understands composition of the team and hires to round out the team with the ability to represent the company well, engage candidate excitement, and close. Works to ensure that the hiring process leads to candidates who embody our company values.

Your Impact

• Build the engineering team - Attract, build and retain a quickly growing engineering team from 10 engineers to 30+ engineers, supported by a strong engineering management team and org structure that can continue to scale. A+ team.

• Implement processes that continue to improve quality and productivity - Processes should reduce defect rate and increase velocity. Leverage retros as part of the feedback loop.

• Mentor and coach members of engineering team - Define growth goals with team, ensure growth goals are achieved, maintain strong team morale and cohesion

• Define and execute against annual product / technical roadmap with CTO - Estimate and achieve deliverables for key features and technical goals

• Design the engineering org structure - Work with engineering leaders, CTO, and head of design to develop the optimal org structure and implement best practices around internal processes, structure and metrics.

Perks

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (with 80% premium coverage)

• Paid parental leave

• Flexible vacation

• 401k with 4% company matching (and vests instantly!)

• Stipend for home office

• At least two in-person company offsites a year

• Fully remote

Our Commitment

We believe that great ideas can come from anyone and anywhere. As an equal opportunity employer, we interact with respect, kindness, and compassion. We are committed to building a company that embraces and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion. We're not afraid to let go of existing beliefs as we learn new information and uncover better ideas.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Diverse teams build better products, offer more unique perspectives and help foster an inclusive environment for everyone.