You’ll join the executive team as a full partner in setting strategy. Our exec team acts as a first team, working closely together to revise our strategy as the world changesRight now, it is changing often! You’ll bring a wealth of experience and an imagination of what’s possible, help sharpen our bets, and decide with your peers the most elegant way forward. Then you’ll shape a strong engineering org to deliver on these decisionsShape the strategy. Form your own view of where the product, technology and market are heading. Bring it to your closest partners: product and the CEO, and to the wider exec team. Some of our bets will need sharpening, and some new ones will need makingBuild alignment at the top. We believe our strength as a company depends on the strength of our exec team. We want you to make our exec team better, and for your first team to be the exec team. You’ll work closely with product and the CEO, challenging and being challenged in return, until the team is truly committed to a shared directionHelp the whole org to make sense of rapid change. When the ground moves quickly, people need help understanding what is changing and why. Burnout is high in our industry, and we want to keep our people motivated, excited to come to work, and with their full creativity and energy. You’ll explain engineering’s direction clearly and repeatedly, to engineers, managers, the exec team, and the rest of the company. We’re remote-first, so much of this happens in writing and in presentationsLead a high-performing team into what’s next. We have strong managers, directors, and ICs. You’ll aim that talent at our biggest opportunities and adjust the org’s structure, goals,



and ways of working to be continually more effective. You’ll do this without losing what makes the team greatLead from technical credibility. You can’t lead an AI era shift without a deep understanding of the ergonomics of the landslide of change underwayBenefits100% covered medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, disability, and moreUnlimited PTO, synchronous company break, paid sabbatical, and expressed minimum for time to recharge401 K retirement plans and fully paid life insuranceUp to 16 weeks paid leave regardless of path to parenthood; flexible hours for returning parents and caregivers$10 K to cover gaps in insurance, in support of adoption, surrogacy, preservation, and family-planning costs$600 per year to spend on the perks you care for mostA stake in our successGenerous new hire equity, and refresh grantsAnnual $1,500 development stipend; funding for cognitive coaching; and a focus on career pathing$500 new hire home setup stipend and $200/mo for wifi, phone and co-workingYou have a special talent for collaboration and improving executive teamsYou’ve shipped software with AI tools yourself within the last 12 monthsYou’re comfortable with uncertainty, rapid change, and shaping new bets towards product-market fitYou’re as interested in shaping strategy as in executing itYou’ve led distributed teams and communicate well in writing and in personYou’ve worked at a larger company, and know what breaks as companies scale. But have a risk tolerance of someone from an early stage startupYou care about developer tools and have good taste in them. (Having used Honeycomb is a bonus, not a requirement)You’ve led engineering through large scale changes in direction, not just growthYou share our values#J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Vice President Of Engineering (Winnipeg)
🏢 Honeycomb
📍 Winnipeg