
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Jet Support Services, Inc. (JSSI)
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $250,000 - $275,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own end-to-end engineering execution across development, architecture, platform, and QA
- Ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software that meets scope, timeline, and budget commitments
- Establish clear engineering goals, metrics, and accountability across teams
- Drive predictable, scalable delivery through strong planning, estimation, and execution practices
- Manage vendor selection and delivery when appropriate
- Set and uphold engineering standards, best practices, and development methodologies
- Ensure a strong, secure, scalable, and maintainable technology foundation
- Provide architectural oversight and technical leadership across systems and platforms
- Guide technology choices and leverage modern, leading-edge technologies where they create real business value
- Evaluate, adopt, and integrate AI and machine learning technologies where they create meaningful product differentiation or operational efficiency
- Balance innovation with pragmatism and operational stability
- Define and own the company’s AI strategy, aligned with business objectives, product roadmap, and long-term technology vision
- Identify, prioritize, and oversee AI use cases across product development, engineering operations, and internal business functions
- Lead the adoption of AI tools and platforms to improve engineering velocity, software quality, and overall technology productivity
- Establish standards and governance for responsible AI use, including security, privacy, compliance, and ethical considerations
- Partner with Product, Data, and Business leaders to translate AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes
- Ensure quality is built into the development lifecycle through strong QA, automation, and testing practices
- Drive high standards for reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence
- Lead, mentor, and scale a large, diverse global engineering organization
- Attract, hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent at all levels
- Build a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning
- Foster an AI-literate engineering culture through training, enablement, and best practices that enhance—not replace—human judgment and creativity
- Develop future engineering leaders and succession plans
- Partner closely with Product, Experience, and other business leaders to align engineering execution with product vision and business goals
- Translate product strategy into clear technical plans and delivery roadmaps
- Communicate clearly and effectively with executive leadership and stakeholders
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience leading large engineering organizations
- Proven track record of delivering complex software products at scale, on time, on budget, and with high quality
- Deep technical background with the ability to engage in architecture, design, and technical decision-making
- Strong experience establishing engineering standards, best practices, and scalable development processes
- Demonstrated success hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams including offshore
- Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience modernizing platforms or building large-scale distributed systems
- Background in cloud-native architectures, modern development stacks, and DevOps practices (we’re a Microsoft shop)
- Experience working closely with product-led organizations
- Prior experience as VP or SVP of Engineering or equivalent leadership role
Benefits
- insurance offerings such as medical, dental, vision, retirement savings programs, among others, starting day one of employment
- annual discretionary bonus plan
- incentive or sales bonus plan
- other forms of additional compensation
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringarchitecturedesigntechnical decision-makingengineering standardsdevelopment processescloud-native architectureslarge-scale distributed systemsDevOps practicesAI and machine learning technologies
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementmentoringcollaborationaccountabilitycontinuous learninginnovationpragmatismorganizational development