Vice President of Engineering

Job Summary

The VP of Engineering is a strategic executive leader responsible for the long-term technical vision, organizational health, and scalable architecture of the Fluency platform. This role moves beyond day-to-day tactical ownership to focus on building high-leverage organizational structures, cross-functional alignment at the executive level, and a platform foundation that supports massive customer growth without proportional increases in technical debt. Crucially, this leader brings a proven track record of designing and executing large-scale system implementations within the high-volume advertising technology (Ad-Tech) or digital advertising ecosystem to fuel our next phase of scale.

Key Executive Responsibilities

Executive Strategy & Influence: Partner with the CTO and C-Suite to define the long-term engineering roadmap and ensure continuous alignment with overarching company strategy and platform stability requirements.

Organizational Architecture: Continuously refine and oversee the engineering organizational structure (e.g., Squad model) to ensure directors and leads are empowered to operate independently, preventing the VP from becoming a tactical constraint.

Platform Resilience & Ad-Tech Scale: Maintain and evolve the strategic architectural direction of the Fluency platform—particularly blending our cellular/isolated database architecture with the high-concurrency, low-latency requirements characteristic of large-scale advertising systems. Ensure robust resilience under massive data volumes for hundreds of enterprise customers.

Experimentation Framework: Define and enforce engineering standards and clear operational boundaries between experimental product R&D (Labs) and stable core engineering to safeguard platform integrity.

Remote Leadership Excellence: Lead and foster a high-performance, geographically distributed remote engineering culture, ensuring seamless communication, accountability, and operational excellence across all time zones.

Talent Strategy: Develop and manage the long-term talent strategy, overseeing hiring, professional development pipelines, and succession planning to ensure staffing aligns with future technical and business needs.

What We Look For

Strategic Visionary: A leader who can articulate the business impact of technical debt and infrastructure investments to non-technical stakeholders.

Systems Thinker: Proven ability to build "systems of people" that solve complex problems without needing direct executive intervention.

Ad-Tech Scale Expertise: Deep operational understanding of high-throughput distributed systems, heavy data pipeline mechanics, and ecosystem integrations unique to the advertising world.

Crisis Management Executive: Ability to remain calm and decisive during high-stakes incidents while simultaneously building the frameworks to prevent their recurrence.

Executive Presence: Comfortable navigating organizational resistance and building compelling business cases for modernization.

Required Experience

10+ years of progressive experience in engineering leadership.

5+ years of engineering leadership experience specifically within the advertising industry (Ad-Tech, Mar-Tech, or high-volume digital media platforms), successfully delivering large-scale system implementations.

Proven track record of scaling a SaaS platform through significant revenue and customer growth.

Experience managing multiple managers or directors in a squad-based or departmental structure.

Deep familiarity with AI-powered development tools and their impact on engineering productivity.

Fluency pays all employees based on U.S. nationwide averages for each role, designed to ensure pay equity. This is a full-time, remote position that requires legal authorization to work in the U.S. Starting pay range is determined by job-related skills, experience, and knowledge. The role is also eligible for a discretionary bonus, equity options, and a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families

• 401(k) plan with company match

• Four weeks of Combined Time Off (CTO), flexible schedule, and twelve holidays

• Maternity and parental leave

• Employee wellness programs and mental health support

• Remote work flexibility and home office stipends

Starting Pay Range

$172,000—$197,000 USD