VP of Engineering

4 weeks ago


Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Goiguide Full time
Role Overview

As the Vice President of Engineering at Planitar Inc., you will play a pivotal role in shaping our engineering strategy and leading a diverse team of around 20 professionals across AI, R&D, hardware, and UI/UX. You will report directly to the CEO and be an integral member of the executive team, driving our vision for growth and technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities
  • Leadership & Team Development: Inspire, mentor, and guide a multidisciplinary engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Strategic Planning: Collaborate with the executive team to align engineering initiatives with business goals, managing priorities across product and technology roadmaps.
  • Technical Oversight: Analyze and enhance the engineering team's productivity and velocity, addressing technical debt while implementing best practices for software development and hardware design.
  • Resource Management: Expand internal engineering capacity by managing subcontractors and partnerships in hardware design, software development, and AI research.
  • Product Development: Lead the productization of offshoot products that align with P&L goals, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality outcomes.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization, ensuring alignment between product management and engineering teams.
  • Budget Management: Maintain oversight of departmental spending, including cloud hosting costs and third-party software.
Qualifications
  • Technical Leadership: Significant experience in engineering leadership roles within scale-up environments, with a proven track record in software development, including cloud technologies.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Experience collaborating closely with product management teams, with a passion for leading high-performing engineering teams.
  • Hands-on Expertise: Background in architecting and developing complex technical products that combine hardware, firmware, and software across a range of technologies. Experience with cloud computing, including the scalability, reliability, observability, and security of cloud-hosted systems. Working knowledge of services written in Go or Python, container orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes or Nomad, web technologies like Vue or React, serverless computing like Lambda, or similar.
  • Outsourcing Experience: Demonstrated experience working with outsourced design firms for hardware and software projects.
  • Adaptability: Comfortable in fast-paced startup or scale-up environments, with a willingness to tackle challenges head-on.
  • Flexibility: Proven ability to manage products across multiple and varied markets.
Nice to Have
  • Familiarity with camera-based imaging, metrology, or time-of-flight laser mapping technologies.
  • Background in machine learning, or computer vision.
  • Experience in prop-tech or insur-tech sectors.

We offer a dynamic work environment where innovation thrives. If you are passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex challenges and excited about leading a talented engineering team, we'd love to hear from you.



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