Director of Engineering, Product Platform

Summary

Join Vanta as a Director of Engineering and lead a dynamic engineering organization focused on scaling the Product & Growth platforms. Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering teams to build foundational components, lead multiple teams to deliver results, and proactively identify strategic initiatives. Guide technical strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities, and build a high-impact engineering team. Influence Vanta’s engineering culture and strategy. This role requires 7+ years of engineering leadership experience, leading and scaling engineering organizations of 35+ with multiple teams. You will need a proven track record of growing high-performing teams, passion for leadership and coaching, business acumen, strong decision-making skills, and effective communication.

Requirements

• 7+ years of engineering leadership experience, with deep experience working on complex products and/or their respective platforms in a high growth environment
• Experience leading & scaling engineering organizations of 35+ in size with multiple teams, and a proven track record of growing high-performing teams beyond this initial size
• Passion for leading, coaching and building an inspired team through setting vision, unlocking potential, and driving compassionate accountability
• Business acumen paired with an understanding of applying the unique leverage of platform principles to enable step change product innovation & results
• Strong decision maker who effectively balances ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality
• Effective communicator and story-teller. Able to influence cross functional stakeholders and engineering partners at all levels
• Operates at multiple altitudes, from developing vision and strategy to driving execution

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Design, Product, and Engineering counterparts to build foundational building blocks to accelerate product engineering and bring our vision to market
• Lead multiple teams to deliver results consistently and sustainably while holding a high bar for execution and quality
• Proactively identify, define, and lead strategic initiatives that align engineering capabilities with business outcomes
• Guide technical strategy, ensuring that your teams are enabling long-term value aligned with Vanta’s business priorities
• Build a high-impact engineering team - coach, mentor, and create an environment where your teams and managers can do their best work and deliver for the business
• Play an integral role in influencing and shaping Vanta’s engineering culture and strategy

Benefits

• Industry-competitive compensation
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
• 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
• Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours and location
• Open PTO policy
• 11 paid holidays in the US