Vice President, Engineering

Summary

Join Aurora Solar as their VP of Engineering and lead the entire engineering organization across a wide and complex product surface area. You will evolve the organization to meet the demands of scale and speed, modernize software architecture, and champion a culture of accountability and agility. Major priorities include aligning the team on product priorities, extending the platform's depth and compliance for international markets, deepening financing integrations, and building out the consumer marketplace. You will also lead and develop a team of Directors and Senior Directors, guiding them to operate with greater clarity, urgency, and impact. The ideal candidate will be a strategic change agent who can assess what's working, define what must improve, and drive focused execution. This role requires deep curiosity and hands-on familiarity with emerging AI/ML tooling.

Requirements

• Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing senior engineering leaders (Directors and Senior Directors), ideally across multiple domains and business units
• Deep curiosity and hands-on familiarity with emerging AI/ML tooling. You are an early adopter who helps your organization stay ahead of the curve, and have demonstrated success implementing AI tooling to accelerate feature delivery
• Strong technical competence with the ability to evaluate architecture, guide technical tradeoffs, and partner effectively with senior engineering leaders. You help spot and evaluate new product opportunities based on knowledge of your organization’s technical capabilities and direction
• Consistent track record of partnering with Product and Design to advocate for technical initiatives, align priorities, focus teams, and deliver customer-centric outcomes at scale
• Experience leading strategic shifts, focusing on experimentation, rapid iteration, release velocity, and quality
• Strategic orientation towards data: you recognize large-scale operational and data as a foundational asset to be used in building intelligent systems

Responsibilities

• Drive global engineering execution with a focus on real customer outcomes solving complex, evolving challenges across the full solar lifecycle
• Articulate strategic vision to the Engineering organization, inspiring and bringing excitement to the work. Connect company priorities to the work that the Engineering team performs
• Champion modern AI development tools and practices. This includes agentic coding, LLM-enabled workflows, and automation to increase team velocity, quality, and leverage
• Build, develop, mentor, and scale a strong bench of engineering leaders, enhancing their management capability, accountability, and team autonomy. Ensure that talent is matched with organizational needs
• Maintain an adaptive, high-velocity engineering organization capable of balancing structured quarterly execution with rapid response to shifting customer and market needs
• Partner cross-functionally with Product and Design leadership to streamline alignment, prioritize effectively, and accelerate product delivery through lightweight, scalable processes
• Oversee IT, security, and GRC functions, maintaining trust with customers and partners through scalable internal systems and proactive risk management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in vertical SaaS especially platforms integrating workflow automation, complex data, and third-party integrations
• Experience with computer-aided design (CAD), electronic design automation (EDA) or computer vision (CV)
• Familiarity with clean tech, solar, or adjacent industries
• Track record of rolling out a global software platform and serving a diverse customer base
• Exposure to applying product usage data to train ML/AI models, develop intelligent systems or power personalization at scale
• Experience with multi-party workflows, including coordination across complex stakeholder ecosystems

Benefits

• Flexible PTO - Take the time when you need it
• Parental Leave - 16 weeks with 100% base salary + gradual return to work
• WFH Stipend - $1000 CAD (Engineering roles)
• Coworking Stipend - $400 CAD / month if you prefer to be at a coworking facility near you
• Energize Fridays - Company-wide days to log off and recharge
• Connectivity Stipend - Up to $125 CAD / month towards internet or phone
• Learning & Development - $970 CAD / annually to use towards professional development (You have to complete 90 days of employment to receive this stipend)
• Medical, Dental, and Vision - Aurora will cover 100% of premiums for employee-only and dependent coverage of our supplemental medical, dental, and vision plans