Vice President, Engineering

Posit PBC is entering an exciting new chapter of innovation, seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead the evolution of their core authoring suite into an AI-native era. The role involves guiding high-performing teams, optimizing engineering practices with AI assistance, and ensuring enterprise-grade reliability of their tools.

Responsibilities:

• Guide the teams on how AI-centered features should be developed, tested, secured, deployed, scaled and maintained
• Evolve our engineering practices, integrating AI assistance to drive new levels of efficiency, quality, collaboration and innovation
• Partner with engineering leads and managers to optimize our development cycles for the rapid, iterative pace of the modern AI landscape
• Maintain our commitment to enterprise-grade reliability, ensuring our tools remain easy to manage for IT leaders in complex, secure environments
• Ensure our tools work seamlessly together as a unified ecosystem, providing a consistent and high-quality experience for users across different environments
• Collaborate with product leadership and internal stakeholders to align our technical roadmaps with the long-term future of data science
• Work across the organization to turn ambitious goals into clear, actionable plans with shared ownership
• Cultivate a thriving, growing, resilient and fully distributed engineering organization that learns and continuously innovates

Requirements:

• Pragmatic AI Vision: A grounded, expert view on how AI can fundamentally improve software effectiveness without losing sight of user needs
• Development Tool Expertise: Deep experience with IDEs, extensions, or language runtimes. You can engage deeply with Principal Engineers on architectural trade-offs
• The 'Data Science' Perspective: A strong background in Analytics or Data Science. You understand the user's 'why' as much as the 'how'
• Enterprise Groundedness: Experience building software for the unique constraints of Fortune 500 IT environments (auth, security, and compliance)
• Collaborative Change Management: A proven ability to lead organizations through periods of growth and technological shifts with empathy and clarity