Vanta

Head of EPD Systems, AI Transformation

Vanta

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Lead

About the role

  • Define, lead, and deliver a multi-quarter roadmap to transform Engineering, Product, and Design through automation and AI workflows
  • Lead and grow a small team to deliver EPD systems, programs, and our agentic transformation
  • Serve as a strategic partner to the CPO and EPD Leadership Team by surfacing systemic risks and opportunities and driving concrete interventions
  • Partner with DevEx and other teams to integrate and align efforts without duplicating their mandates
  • Design an end-to-end information flow across our core systems (roadmap, customer feedback systems, research artifacts, Slack) so teams spend less time reconciling data and more time building
  • Automate status reporting across EPD by generating team and executive rollups and related systems, focused on what changed, what is at risk, and what decisions are needed
  • Build agents that help teams get answers, produce drafts, and trigger workflow actions in the moment
  • Build system agents that run continuously in the background to reconcile data, detect changes, maintain hygiene, and reduce drift across tools
  • Establish evaluation and continuous improvement practices: define success metrics, build test harnesses, run phased rollouts, measure adoption and quality, and iterate quickly
  • Automate customer and GTM feedback loops by ingesting and synthesizing feedback at scale, clustering themes, mapping signal to roadmap areas when possible, and producing decision-ready evidence
  • Partner closely with GTM teams to ensure feedback is structured, traceable, and actionable, and to complete the loop by verifying outcomes with customers and communicating what has changed
  • Create practical guardrails for AI-enabled workflows, including privacy, data handling, reliability, auditability, and human-in-the-loop expectations, in partnership with Security and IT

Requirements

  • 5 years of experience leading and growing a team
  • Strong product instincts applied internally: you treat teams as users, prioritize based on pain and leverage, and iterate toward adoption - you treat product development itself as a product
  • Clear communicator who can simplify complex systems and align senior stakeholders
  • Passion and past experience delivering agents and automation in practice, including reliability, drift, evaluation, and rollout strategies that build trust
  • Demonstrated ability to run iterative improvement loops: define metrics, test changes, measure impact, and keep raising the bar
  • Experience designing and improving systems to build products, as a technical product manager, engineering leader, or systems leader who has owned tooling, process, and data together
  • Strong systems thinking and an ability to model how work actually flows across functions, find root causes, and redesign mechanisms rather than patch symptoms
  • Ability to partner with engineering and data teams without needing to be the primary coder
  • Ability to partner effectively across EPD and GTM organizations and align incentives around closed-loop feedback
  • Data-oriented mindset with strong instincts for instrumentation and decision-quality metrics, not just output metrics
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity with a bias toward shipping and learning quickly.
Benefits
  • Industry-competitive salary and equity
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
  • 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
  • Health & wellness stipend
  • Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
  • Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
  • Family planning benefits
  • Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
  • Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
  • 11 company-paid holidays
  • Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
automationAI workflowsstatus reportingdata reconciliationsuccess metricstest harnessesiterative improvementsystem designproduct developmentfeedback loops
Soft Skills
leadershipclear communicationsystems thinkingcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitystrategic partnershipuser-centric prioritizationtrust buildingdecision-making