Vice President of Engineering

Join Strive Health as the Vice President of Engineering, where you will lead the software engineering organization through its next phase of scale, operating rigor, and AI-enabled modernization. You will ensure that the product vision is realized through excellent execution, while building the systems, standards, and culture required for predictable delivery, strong cross-functional partnership, and durable technical quality. As a key member of the engineering organization and product development leadership team, you will help shape our team’s practices, talent, and architecture.

• Recruit, develop, and manage top engineering talent capable of delivering high-quality, reliable, secure, and effective technology.
• Build and continuously improve the engineering operating system across planning, estimation, sprint execution, release readiness, incident management, and post-launch follow-through.
• Partner closely with Digital Product, Analytics, Data Science, Clinical, Operations, Security, Legal, and executive leadership to help translate business priorities into executable roadmaps and high-impact technical plans.
• Experience building and evolving engineering operating mechanisms, including planning, estimation, sprint or flow management, release processes, quality controls, and incident response
• Strong systems thinking, sound judgment, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to simplify complexity and make practical tradeoffs under ambiguity
• Experience building, delivering, and maintaining multi-year technology roadmaps that support company strategy, product roadmaps, and platform modernization
• Ability to travel and be onsite to meet business needs
• 14+ years combined of related education and software engineering experience, with significant time leading engineering organizations through scale, complexity, and organizational change
• 8+ years as a people leader, with a proven track record of attracting, hiring, managing, developing, and aligning an engineering organization, including managing through engineering managers and directors
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to represent engineering credibly at the executive level and across highly cross-functional stakeholder groups
• Demonstrated success improving delivery predictability, execution rigor, and engineering quality across multiple teams or product areas
• Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60 ms
• Significant experience as a technology leader in a growth-minded corporation, with at least 8 years in an engineering management role
• Experience in healthcare, healthtech, value-based care, or another regulated environment where privacy, compliance, and operational reliability materially shape engineering decisions
• Experience modernizing legacy systems or leading engineering through major platform transitions, interoperability-heavy environments, or complex integration work
• Experience introducing AI-enabled ways of working in engineering or digital product organizations, with a focus on measurable productivity and quality gains rather than novelty
• Experience partnering with product leadership and business stakeholders to deliver increasing value while balancing speed, quality, risk, and long-term maintainability
• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency, accountability, and results orientation
• Strong communication, negotiation, and influence skills, including the ability to lead with professionalism and sound judgment in sensitive cross-functional contexts
• Action-oriented and innovative, with the ability to translate broad goals into achievable steps and execution systems
• A commitment to quality that incorporates not only immediate delivery requirements, but also long-term reliability, scalability, and strong user experience
• Consistent track record of working across team boundaries to deliver excellent user experiences and durable technical outcomes across the stack