VP of Engineering

Summary

Join UpGuard as our VP of Engineering and lead our engineering team into the next phase of growth. Reporting to the CPO, you will own the strategic direction, execution, and performance of the engineering organization. You will build and maintain high-performing engineering teams, ensuring scalable, reliable, and secure technology delivery. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve strategic alignment and customer-centric delivery. This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and a commitment to building a thriving engineering culture. UpGuard offers a competitive compensation package and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Prior leadership experience in a scale-up tech company
• Experience in product-forward organizations with strong product engineering practices
• Strong foundational software engineering capability
• Exceptional people management, coaching, and mentoring capability
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience in enterprise B2B environments

Responsibilities

• Set and execute a scalable engineering strategy, aligning technical roadmaps with product vision and business goals
• Build and maintain high-performing engineering teams, emphasizing accountability, innovation, and value delivery—all in alignment with UpGuard's unique culture
• Ensure technology platforms scale sustainably, reliably, and securely to meet current and future business needs
• Optimize engineering processes, structures, and resource allocation to support a scaling team and align with company strategy and product priorities
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment, unified execution, and customer-centric delivery
• Own hiring strategy, attract high-caliber engineering talent, and cultivate a compelling employer brand to support organizational growth
• Continuously evolve the engineering organization structure and processes to effectively manage increased scale and complexity

Preferred Qualifications

• A background or familiarity with cybersecurity
• Exposure or experience with AI, machine learning, and/or research-oriented engineering
• Prior experience within Big Tech or similarly sophisticated technical environments

Benefits

• Stock Options: share in our future success with stock options
• Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: use this for financial, physical and mental wellbeing
• WFH set-up allowance: to ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set-up within your first 3 months at UpGuard
• $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: to support your career development all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance
• Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances: time to recharge your batteries
• 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: irrespective of parenting role
• Personal Leave allowance: this includes sick & carer’s leave
• Fully remote working environment: whilst we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance
• Top spec hardware: all team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role
• Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work