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VP of Engineering

Remote: 
Full Remote
Contract: 
Full time
Work from: 
Australia

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Prior leadership experience in a scale-up tech company., Strong foundational software engineering capability., Exceptional people management, coaching, and mentoring skills., Experience in enterprise B2B environments and familiarity with cybersecurity..

Key responsabilities:

  • Set and execute a scalable engineering strategy aligned with product vision.
  • Build and maintain high-performing engineering teams emphasizing accountability and innovation.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure strategic alignment and customer-centric delivery.
  • Optimize engineering processes and structures to support a scaling team and align with company strategy.

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UpGuard SME https://www.upguard.com/
51 - 200 Employees
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Job description

Who are we?
UpGuard’s mission is to protect the world’s data. We obsessively seek out elegant, robust ways to enable our customers to find, acknowledge, and remediate cyber risk. With UpGuard, organizations leverage our security expertise and software to automate what was once laborious, spreadsheet-driven processes–whether it's monitoring the attack surface of hundreds of vendors or assessing the security of their own infrastructure. UpGuard is used by some of the world’s largest, fastest-growing, and most innovative companies. 

Our Product team at UpGuard comprises of our Product Management, Product Support, Engineering, Design, Data Leaks Detection, and Third Party Risk Management Services. Our Product team’s vision is to become the leader in the Cyber VRM category by providing a best-in-class SaaS platform for organizations to manage their third-party risk and external attack surface. Our purpose as a Product team is simply to build a product that enables this. We aim to build a product that users love and come to rely on, and one that regularly and consistently improves.

Where does this role fit in?
We're looking for an experienced VP of Engineering to grow our engineering team and mature our engineering practices in preparation for the next ambitious stage of our company’s growth.

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer (CPO), the VP Engineering owns the strategic direction, execution, and performance of the engineering organization. They ensure scalable, reliable, and secure technology delivery aligned with product vision and business growth objectives. Ultimately, they are held accountable for delivering massive, sustainable business value in collaboration with their cross-functional product peers.

Key Areas of Ownership:
  • Technical Strategy & Execution: Set and execute a scalable engineering strategy, aligning technical roadmaps with product vision and business goals.
  • Engineering Leadership & Culture: Build and maintain high-performing engineering teams, emphasizing accountability, innovation, and value delivery—all in alignment with UpGuard's unique culture.
  • Platform Scalability & Reliability: Ensure technology platforms scale sustainably, reliably, and securely to meet current and future business needs.
  • Organizational Efficiency: Optimize engineering processes, structures, and resource allocation to support a scaling team and align with company strategy and product priorities.
  • Cross-functional Alignment: Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment, unified execution, and customer-centric delivery.
  • Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding: Own hiring strategy, attract high-caliber engineering talent, and cultivate a compelling employer brand to support organizational growth.
  • Organizational Adaptation: Continuously evolve the engineering organization structure and processes to effectively manage increased scale and complexity.

    • Desired Outcomes:
  • Engineering teams attract, develop, and retain top talent, measured by engagement, retention, and team performance.
  • Engineering velocity and quality consistently improve, enabling  rapid and predictable product delivery.
  • Technical infrastructure supports aggressive growth without significant disruptions or performance degradation.
  • Engineering initiatives are strategically aligned, efficiently executed, and deliver measurable business value.
  • Engineering organization effectively partners with Sales and Go-to-Market teams, aligning on clear and predictable delivery roadmaps, enabling a smooth cadence of sales activities, and driving customer confidence and satisfaction.
  • The organization successfully scales through strategic hiring, strong employer branding, and adaptive organizational design, enabling sustained growth.

    • What would give you an edge?
  • 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.
  • 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.

    • What's in it for you?
  • 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
    • #LI-SR1

    UpGuard is a Certified Great Place to Work® in the US, Australia, UK and India, establishing its position as a leading global technology employer. 99% of team members agree that UpGuard is a great place to work, apply now to find out why!

    As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

    For applications to positions in the United States, please note, at this time we can only support hiring in the following US states: CA, MD, MA, IL, OR, WA, CO, TX, FL, PA, LA, MO, or DC. 

    Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check and reference checks. Also please note that at this time, we cannot support candidates requiring visa sponsorship or relocation.

    Required profile

    Experience

    Spoken language(s):
    English
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    Hard Skills

    Engineering ManagementScalabilityBusiness StrategiesTalent AcquisitionSoftware EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceCyber SecurityMachine Learning

    Other Skills

    • People Management
    • Mentorship
    • Social Skills
    • Communication
    • Coaching
    • Accountability
    • Collaboration
    • Innovation
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