VP Engineering
MARKT-PILOT
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Stuttgart • Germany
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About the role
- Lead, coach, and scale a high-performing engineering organization (Engineering Managers, tech leads, and individual contributors); hire and develop leaders, define expectations and growth paths, and maintain a high talent bar and a culture of ownership.
- Build and operate a lightweight, high-trust delivery system (planning, forecasting, dependency management, transparent reporting) that enables predictable roadmap execution while balancing speed, quality, and architectural runway.
- Own technical strategy and architectural direction for a scalable B2B SaaS platform; evolve cloud architecture, APIs/integrations, and data-intensive workflows while establishing “paved roads” for product teams.
- Raise the bar on engineering excellence (release confidence, observability, incident response, operational discipline) and strengthen DevOps/SRE practices.
- Ensure an enterprise-grade security posture in partnership with Security and Compliance (secure SDLC, vulnerability management, auditability) and serve as the executive technical voice for select enterprise customers (late-stage deals, escalations, roadmap credibility).
- Drive pragmatic AI adoption to enhance engineering productivity and product capabilities (AI-assisted SDLC, automation, quality acceleration) with clear security, IP, and data guardrails.
Requirements
- Proven track record of scaling engineering organizations in high-growth B2B enterprise SaaS, including managing managers (Directors/Engineering Managers) and leading teams through significant growth.
- Experience operating in enterprise SaaS environments where reliability, security, integrations, and customer trust are critical.
- Exposure to industrial/manufacturing software, data-heavy products, pricing, or aftermarket/parts-related domains.
- Strong technical foundation (CS degree or equivalent) with the ability to go deep on architecture, platform decisions, and operational trade-offs.
- Demonstrated experience modernizing or scaling multi-team architectures while maintaining delivery pace and building predictable, low-chaos engineering systems with transparent risk communication.
- Working knowledge of modern AI approaches with practical, outcome-driven application experience.
- Germany-based preferred, or Europe-based with strong distributed leadership experience.
Benefits
- Modern, open scale-up culture that gives you the freedom to be creative within a dynamic, agile team.
- Fail fast, learn faster: continuous feedback is an integral part of the work culture.
- Investment in your growth: dedicated Learning & Development programs and an L&D budget.
- Flexible working hours and hybrid work options.
- 30 days of vacation.
- We subsidize the monthly Deutschland-Ticket for train travel.
- Company bike program for those who prefer cycling.
- Regular team events, social activities, and gaming sessions.
- Health support: discounted WELLPASS membership and healthy snacks.
- Corporate benefits program with exclusive discounts from top brands.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
B2B SaaScloud architectureAPIsdata-intensive workflowsDevOpsSRE practicesAI-assisted SDLCautomationsecurity posturevulnerability management
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingscaling organizationscommunicationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingrisk communicationteam developmentculture of ownershipoperational discipline
Certifications
Computer Science degreeequivalent technical degree