Chief Engineering Officer

Join Advance Venture Partners as we innovate the way professionals harness and optimize their networks, turning connections into valuable opportunities. You will be part of a dedicated team focused on enhancing our primary product and platform, making relationship intelligence essential through sophisticated data analytics. With our expanding user base and entry into new markets, we are more committed than ever to providing relationship intelligence to professionals globally.

Your role and influence:

As the Chief Engineering Officer at Advance Venture Partners, you will report directly to the CTO and oversee the development of our cutting-edge CRM product and platform. Your strategic insight will ensure we establish robust foundations that drive exceptional customer outcomes and foster cross-functional collaboration. Implementing the Product Operating Model will be a key focus for our R&D team, and your leadership will be crucial in facilitating and advocating for this transformation. You will also steer our technical and architectural roadmap, ensuring optimal performance and user experience across our suite of applications.

Key responsibilities:

• Define Product Vision: Collaborate with product and design leaders to create a compelling future vision for our product, developing a strategic roadmap that seamlessly integrates product, design, and engineering.
• Oversee Engineering Implementation: Direct engineering execution, ensuring high-quality software and an enjoyable user experience through continuous, iterative development practices, while spearheading initiatives to enhance our overall development approach and delivery processes.
• Expand and Strengthen the Team: Shape the team's structure, identify hiring needs, and recruit and onboard engineers whose diverse technical skills and interpersonal abilities contribute to cohesive, well-rounded teams.
• Foster Team Development: Lead and nurture a high-performing team through effective leadership, coaching, and mentoring, promoting a culture of excellence and continuous improvement while ensuring inclusive development opportunities for all team members.
• Formulate Technical Strategy: Create a technical strategy and roadmap aligned with Advance Venture Partners' business and product objectives, focusing on delivering high quality, excellent usability, and fast performance across applications and APIs.
• Address Technical Debt: Lead organization-wide prioritization of enhancements to code quality, systems, and engineering processes to support these improvements.
• Guide Strategic Decisions: Navigate complex discussions and drive decisions that align with business context, product, architecture, design philosophies, and strategies.
• Establish and Monitor Department KPIs: Develop and track key performance indicators to ensure departmental goals are achieved.

Qualifications:

We understand that not every candidate will meet every requirement. Research indicates that women and individuals from diverse backgrounds are less likely to apply for positions unless they meet all qualifications. At Advance Venture Partners, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you are enthusiastic about this role but your experience does not perfectly align with the qualifications outlined, we encourage you to apply. You may be the ideal candidate for this or other opportunities.

Required:

• 13+ years of experience in developing scalable web applications with significant data volumes and rich visualizations.
• 8+ years in an engineering leadership capacity, managing teams of 10 or more, with experience overseeing multiple teams through managers and team leads.
• Proven experience in developing, coaching, and managing engineering leaders, such as Engineering Directors, Engineering Managers, and Staff Engineers.
• A genuine concern for the well-being of colleagues, with a commitment to supporting their growth and development while also providing necessary challenges.
• Experience in recruiting and securing engineering talent.
• A passion for designing, evolving, and optimizing the development process, ideally utilizing methodologies such as Kanban to help developers maintain a seamless workflow.
• A thoughtful balance between immediate business priorities and long-term investment and strategy.
• A commitment to delivering an exceptionally high-quality product, ensuring outstanding functionality while maintaining the platform's overall performance and reliability.
• Enthusiasm for collaborative work within engineering and across functional teams.
• Strong communication skills, both articulate and persuasive, with the ability to listen and prioritize diverse perspectives.

Preferred:

• Experience leading in organizations that implement the Product Operating Model.
• Familiarity with Ruby, React, or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with CRM-type applications that address challenges such as entity resolution and designing data models to accommodate numerous attributes across many entities.
• Experience in building data-intensive applications.

Technical Environment:

Our platform utilizes React and TypeScript on the front end, with Ruby and PostgreSQL on the back end. Our infrastructure is hosted on AWS and operates on Kubernetes.

What you will appreciate at Advance Venture Partners:

• We embody our values as innovators, dedicated to learning, caring for our colleagues and clients, being radically open-minded, and taking pride in our work.
• Comprehensive health care coverage and flexible personal and sick days to support the well-being of our team.
• An annual budget for educational pursuits and a robust learning and development program, reflecting our core value of being #obsessedwithlearning.
• Support for overall health and wellness, including reimbursement for transportation, home internet, meals, and wellness memberships/equipment.
• Virtual team-building activities and social events to maintain connections among team members.

Please note that the compensation details below reflect the base salary only and do not include any equity or benefits. This represents the salary range that Advance Venture Partners believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting, that it will pay for the posted job.

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $245,000 to $300,000 CAD. Within this range, individual pay will depend on various factors including geographical location and an assessment of the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

About Advance Venture Partners:

With a global customer base exceeding 3,000 and support from some of Silicon Valley's leading firms, Advance Venture Partners has raised $120M to empower dealmakers in finding, managing, and closing more deals. Our Relationship Intelligence platform leverages extensive data from trillions of interactions among Investment Bankers, Venture Capitalists, Consultants, and other strategic dealmakers to provide automated relationship insights that facilitate over 450,000 deals monthly. We are proud recipients of Inc. and Fortune Best Workplaces awards and have been Great Places to Work certified for the past five years. Join us in our mission to enable anyone to cultivate and fully utilize their network for success.

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