Vice President of Engineering

Join our team as the Vice President of Engineering, where you will lead the entire EIQ engineering organization in building AI products for the insurance industry. You will set the technical vision, architecture direction, and organizational structure for EIQ engineering, while partnering closely with Product to execute on the EIQ product roadmap. You will also be responsible for hiring, developing, and retaining engineering talent, building a reliable continuous delivery infrastructure, and driving the strategic roadmap for your organization. This role reports to the EVP of Product & Engineering.

• Set the technical vision, architecture direction, and organizational structure for the EIQ engineering organization.
• Partner closely with Product to execute on the EIQ product roadmap across product lines, ensuring alignment on priorities.
• Hire, develop, and retain engineering talent, building and scaling high-performing, cross-functional engineering organizations.
• We are currently looking to hire a Vice President of Engineering who is an experienced engineering leader who owns outcomes, not just processes
• You've built and scaled high-performing, cross-functional engineering organizations and you know what great looks like at every level of the stack
• You're deeply technical, a strong people developer, and you thrive in fast-moving environments where the problems are genuinely hard and the stakes are high
• Architecture fluency: Strong system design instincts; you can go deep when it matters and set direction when it doesn't
• Team scale: Experience managing sizable engineering organizations (~100+ people), including multiple layers of management
• Modern AI tooling: Fluency with LLMs and agentic development patterns, you work this way yourself and expect your team to as well
• Cross-functional depth: Hands-on experience building and leading teams that span SWE, ML/AI, and data, not just one discipline
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication; you can translate technical complexity for any audience
• 10–15+ years of experience leading technical teams, with meaningful time at the VP level or equivalent
• Cloud infrastructure: Production experience on GCP or AWS
• Hiring and talent development: A track record of recruiting senior ICs and engineering managers; you've built benches, not just filled seats
• Experience hiring and developing engineering managers and senior ICs; you've built the bench, not just filled seats
• Kind, empathetic, and professional; a culture carrier, not just a culture fit
• Hold yourself and your team to a very high bar; inspires excellence without burning people out
• Creative and resourceful, energized by problems that haven't been solved before
• Proven track record building and leading cross-functional engineering teams (SWE, ML/AI, data)
• Fluency with modern AI/LLM tooling and agentic development patterns; you work this way yourself
• Strong system design and architecture instincts, you can go deep when it matters
• Experience deploying production systems on GCP or AWS
• Excellent written and verbal communication, you can translate technical complexity for any audience
• Strong partner to Product; you know how to align on priorities without losing engineering integrity
• Open to giving and receiving direct, candid feedback
• Comfortable operating in a dual-context environment (EIQ startup culture + CCC enterprise scale)
• Extreme self-starter, you identify what needs to happen and make it happen