BlastPoint is a data-driven, AI-based customer intelligence product company founded by Carnegie Mellon University alumni. They are seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead and grow their engineering organization, ensuring the delivery of products and fostering a high-performing team culture.

Responsibilities:

Lead, manage, and mentor the engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
Define and own the long-term technical strategy and architecture vision, ensuring alignment with company objectives, scalability requirements, and market opportunities
Partner with the CEO, CTO, and Product team to translate business strategy into a long-term engineering roadmap with clear milestones and measurable outcomes
Own engineering execution: sprint planning, resource allocation, release management, and delivery timelines
Recruit, hire, and onboard top engineering talent to scale the team in line with company growth objectives
Proactively identify and eliminate operational and technical roadblocks, while anticipating future scalability and architectural constraints to ensure BlastPoint’s platform and engineering processes evolve ahead of company growth
Establish and refine engineering best practices, including code review, CI/CD, testing, and incident response
Oversee the architecture and technical health of BlastPoint's platform, ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and maintainable
Manage cross-functional collaboration between engineering, data science, product, and customer success teams
Drive a data-informed engineering culture, using metrics (cycle time, deployment frequency, reliability) to continuously improve output
Act as a technical leader in customer-facing contexts when needed, supporting sales engineering, technical due diligence, and customer escalations

Requirements:

5+ Years Experience as a VP of Engineering, Engineering Director or similar leadership role, managing software engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and team development. (venture-backed startup preferred)
Proven track record of scaling engineering organizations at high-growth startups or technology companies (Series A through Series C experience strongly preferred)
Deep technical background with hands-on experience in Python, cloud infrastructure (AWS required), and building data-intensive applications
Experience with AWS services such as SageMaker, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, and S3 in production environments
Experience leading teams that build and maintain AI/ML or data analytics platforms, data pipelines, or SaaS products that process large-scale datasets
Strong understanding of modern software development practices: Agile/Scrum, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, microservices, and containerization
Demonstrated ability to improve engineering velocity, remove organizational bottlenecks, and deliver high-quality software on schedule
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders, including the executive team, customers, and investors
A growth mindset with a bias for action—comfortable operating in ambiguity, making decisions with imperfect information, and iterating quickly
Authorized to work in the United States
Familiarity with machine learning workflows, model deployment, and MLOps tooling
Experience with geospatial data, customer analytics, or intelligence platforms
Background in regulated industries such as energy, utilities, financial services, or insurance
Contributions to open-source projects or a strong public engineering presence (blog, talks, community involvement)
Willingness to travel domestically for company events (2–4 times per year)

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