Vice President of Engineering

As a Vice President of Engineering at Striveworks, you’ll be challenged – and trusted – to sit at the nexus of people and product; growing a high-performance engineering team, being a champion for and guardian of our unique Strive culture, all the while scoping and ensuring product ships on time.

You’re right for this challenge if you have passion and proficiency for enabling teams of high performing engineers. You thrive in dynamic environments and relish the ability to put your stamp on a growing engineering organization. You see the role of leadership as cultivating the environment within which individual and team talents can develop and thrive.

Striveworks’ total compensation package includes a competitive base salary, annual performance-based equity grants, and a lucrative yearly cash bonus.

This position offers a self-directed hybrid work environment at our office in northwest Austin, TX.

We spend a lot of time during our hiring process talking about shared values.

Why? We passionately believe that fostering an environment where people can self-actualize and pursue greatness is the best way to achieve our individual and collective goals. 

What does this mean for you? We want to provide you with the conditions to thrive in an environment where you can achieve your goals, where you know the team shares your goals, and where you make and accept decisions for the team with humility. At Striveworks, we aim for a say/do ratio to be 1 and know that being part of a top-tier team means that there is no smartest person in the room. If that makes sense, we’re already on the same page.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• 6+ years relevant experience
• Excellence in the translation of high-level vision into concrete, measurable, and achievable engineering milestones
• Excellence in the hands-on mentorship and professional development of both leadership and technical expertise
• Comfort with some or all of our major development themes:
  • Everything as Code 
  • Cloud-neutral development 
  • Novel workflow orchestration 
  • Hexagonal, event-driven, microservice architecture 
  • Optimizing, deploying, and refining AI models and algorithms 
• Comfort with cloud architecture: commercial cloud, OpenStack
• Comfort being the interface between customer, product, engineering, and business development, as needed
• Experience in machine learning
• Prior experience as a hands-on developer
• Excellence in Python or GoLang 
• Experience managing significant (multiples of the original team size) growth
• Excellent project planning and communication skills
• Driven, self-directed personality
• Strong sense of mission and commitment to making a difference

We’re very interested in candidates who possess the above qualifications, and we appreciate and consider the addition of:

• Experience leading engineering teams at successful growth-stage startups
• Experience in development for U.S. government programs
• Experience leading geographically dispersed teams
• Experience with workflow automation

• Top-of-market salary and total compensation
• Generous equity plan
• Health/vision/dental insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Childcare leave

The world has looked to data analytics to bridge the gap between floods of data and the struggle to use that data effectively to make timely, impactful decisions. Today, most organizations are awash in analytics that “aren’t quite right”—models that were developed too generally, or too slowly, to be effective in dynamic, fast-paced environments. Striveworks is simplifying ModelOps with a powerful and extensible platform that instantiates the data analytic process as code.

Striveworks is trusted by leading Fortune 500 firms as well as leaders in the public sector as a primary solution for managing model development, monitoring, and governance—and ensuring those models solve the real challenges their organizations face.

Striveworks’ Chariot platform enables users to turn their own production data into models and turn models into production systems. Uniquely, as you train, test, deploy, and use models, our lineage system enables you to track not only the “upstream” provenance of model and data sources, but also the “downstream” usage of the resultant model inferences. Combining this with a principled experience for data and model development, Chariot gives our customers in highly regulated industries an unmatched governance solution over the top of a performant ModelOps platform.

Striveworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, belief, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression), national origin, social or ethnic origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor. Striveworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.

If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact Operations at [email protected]

Striveworks is a participating employer in the E-Verify program.