VP of Engineering

VP of Engineering @ Tilt

Tilt (check us out here) is looking for a VP of Engineering to join our team and help us scale our business by driving measurable outcomes in engineering execution, team performance, and organizational scalability. You will translate strategic priorities into operational success, ensuring engineering delivers secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions. Partnering closely with the CTO, you will lead efforts to align engineering capabilities with business goals to drive innovation and achieve customer satisfaction. This position is a full-time role reporting to our CTO. We want you to be successful here at Tilt! Below is a description of your role and responsibilities. 

Roles & Responsibilities 📎

• Leading the implementation of scalable and performant architectures, keeping tech debt to manageable levels and improving system throughput.
• Developing and mentoring Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers to own key technical decisions, fostering accountability and alignment across teams.
• Ensuring systems maintain at least 99.9% uptime and meet defined performance SLAs, with a goal of improving reliability over time.
• Establishing clear technical goals for engineering leaders, ensuring progress toward innovation and scalability.
• Collaborating with Engineering Managers to create a consistent approach to technical design reviews and mentorship, improving technical standards across the organization.
• Driving cross-team initiatives to adopt best practices in coding, testing, and operational excellence, leading to managing defects to acceptable levels.
• Encouraging Staff Engineers to lead technical deep dives, workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions, elevating the technical expertise of the entire team.
• Collaborating with security to meet compliance and regulatory requirements, maintaining certifications like SOC 2 with no major audit findings.
• Building a high-performing team with engagement scores trending above 80+, and contribute to maintaining regrettable retention of top talent above 95%.
• Developing engineering leaders to own and deliver on key objectives in alignment to long term goals, ensuring successful delivery of engineering initiatives are driven independently by cross-functional empowered teams.
• Collaborating with People & Culture to enhance the career progression framework by establishing clear and proactive tools that empower individuals to self-assess their growth areas, align with their managers on developmental goals, and build competencies effectively.
• Ensuring all team members have a clear understanding of their responsibilities and accountabilities, fostering transparency and alignment across roles.
• Aligning with Product and Design to deliver on customer-focused roadmaps, achieving at least 85% successful completion of quarterly priorities.
• Partnering with Sales and Customer Success to reduce priority-1 customer-reported issues and maintain low post-launch defect rates.
• Facilitating seamless cross-team communication, reducing misaligned or delayed initiatives.

You’re a great fit if 🤩

• You have B2B SaaS experience at a Series B scaleup or equivalent 
• You have demonstrated experience driving integrations and collaborating with partners, vendors, platforms, or ecosystems to deliver seamless solutions
• You have the proven ability to scale engineering teams from 30 to 50+ while delivering consistent business outcomes
• Demonstrated experience managing nearshore and contract staff to effectively augment core teams while maintaining quality and accountability
• Track record of leading organizations to measurable improvements in engineering efficiency, reliability, and security
• Experience building high-performing teams with clear accountability and continuous improvement practices
• Experience in HRTech, FinTech or HealthTech is a plus
• You have high levels of empathy and can connect deeply with Tilt’s mission
• You are fearlessly flexible and curious; aka you thrive in an environment where we don't have all the answer but are willing to help us figure them out 

Virtues/Competencies 🔐

1. Health & Family First 

You balance work and personal life effectively 

You get things done at a pace consistent with the business needs

You show up and are reliable 

You encourage others to put their health and family first 

2. Autonomy + Team. Always 

You are highly organized and can manage multiple priorities and deadlines at once

You are focused on scale and building - you understand that pace is equally as important as quality 

3. Be Curious 

When you don’t have all of the answers, you dig in and ask questions 

You don’t let negative assumptions drive your