Vp Of Engineering Jobs

About Blackbird.AI:

At Blackbird.AI, our mission is to empower trust, safety and integrity across the information ecosystem.. As pioneers in the Information Risk landscape, we're designing state-of-the-art technologies to detect and counteract narrative attacks at scale. Our multidisciplinary team, of diverse experts, collaborate with clients spanning Fortune 500 companies, National Security, Cybersecurity, and many other sectors.

Position Overview:

We seek a world class VP of Engineering to helm our engineering vision, lead a team of talented engineers, and help accelerate the veracity of information in this digital age.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy Formation: Develop, implement, and oversee engineering development strategies that resonate with our company's goals
• Startup Agility: Thrive in the fast-paced ecosystem of a startup, preferring its spontaneity over the bureaucracy of larger entities. However, maintain a process-orientation to preserve order, maximize effectiveness within capacity and resource constraints, and deliver operational efficiency and top-notch production systems
• Data Processing Expertise: Possess hands-on experience in building large-scale data processing pipelines, especially with conversational social media data
• Reliability & Scalability Assurance: Define and manage engineering programs that deliver reliability and scalability by design. Ensure that requirements are verifiable and can be supported by automated test suites and scriptable QA processes. Ensure that architectural designs satisfy data volume, velocity, and variety projections as well as forecasts for growth in user seats and the attendant challenges of multi-tenancy and concurrency
• Budgetary Skills: Draw on past experiences to formulate and oversee engineering budgets and resource plans, and proactively manage the performance/reliability/cost tradeoffs in implementations and deployments
• Technical Proficiency:
• Cross-team Collaboration: Engage synergistically with adjacent functional teams, including product, ML/AI R&D, Intel, and the Commercial departments
• Team Leadership: Provide day-to-day management of the engineering team, ensuring they deliver top-tier products and services on schedule and at performance and cost targets
• Scalable AI Systems Experience: Possess demonstrated hands-on experience with large-scale streaming data systems, including experiences in scaling ElasticSearch databases, network analysis, extensive AI enrichment, and large-scale text clustering
• Talent Acquisition: Identify, attract, and onboard top-tier engineering talent that aligns with our company's vision and technical demands
• Software Engineering Expertise: Demonstrate robust personal skills in software development, architectural design, and cloud-based infrastructures

Requirements

• Leadership Prowess: 5+ years in leadership roles, specifically as a VP in engineering. Prior experience in Series B or similar stage companies
• Clear Communication: Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities, adept at bridging technical and non-technical audiences to communicate clearly and purposefully with stakeholders.
• Education: Minimum of a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar field
• Methodological Approach: Proficiency with Agile methodologies and tools
• Experience: 10+ years in software engineering, marked by the successful stewardship of large-scale projects
• Location: While our preferred location is New York, NY, we recognize the importance of flexibility and the value of hybrid work. As such, this position is open to remote candidates who can travel to the New York office a minimum of two times each quarter

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Stock Option Plan
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Opportunities for career advancement and growth
• Work From Home

Join Blackbird.AI and play a critical role in combating narrative attacks and charting the future of information integrity.