Vice President, Digital Engineering - San Francisco, CA, United States - Interface AI

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    ai is a leading Conversational AI SaaS company focused on providing cutting-edge solutions to the financial services industry. We serve close to 100 financial institutions today.

    We are one of the fastest-growing AI + financial technology companies in the industry, and we have grown 1800% in the last one year and recently featured as one of the top 100 fastest-growing fintech companies in Silicon Valley.

    Our mission is to empower every financial institution to scale efficiently and help its customers achieve financial wellness.
    Our core technology is built 100% in-house with several breakthroughs in Natural Language Understanding.

    Our parser is built based on zero-shot learning that helps us to launch industry-specific IVA that can achieve over 90% accuracy on Day-1.

    Formulate long-term strategy for technological development, product layout plan, roadmap for new product development, and the company's long-term engineering practices.

    Manage the company's overall core technology, organize the formulation and implement the major technical decisions.

    Understand and influence all elements of the software lifecycle work together and develop quality engineering approaches that fit the overall architecture.

    Build and manage a team of software engineers, QA and analysts.
    Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
    Management of resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-in-class engineering team.

    You will be working with a team who is fast moving, fun and creative but more importantly extremely dedicated, focused and ambitious This role involves getting on the ground floor of a startup, with the opportunity to build out and shape the Engineering function, and work directly with the core team in scaling the business.

    To develop a strategic vision for the Engineering team, consistent with the overall mission of the company such that the company meets its targets.

    Define and put in place suitable performance management metrics and reporting structure to monitor performance against set objectives. Assure successful execution through the definition, development, and deployment of the tech.

    Develop and implement a technology road-map that aligns with the business strategy and delivers both short-term and long-term results.

    Be the technology leader for the entire BUs - by developing a sustainable architecture to support business growth.

    Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timelines for the evaluation, development, and deployment of products.

    Build quality assurance and data protection processes.
    Participate in the community through blog posts, panels, and presentations.
    Provide the leadership for the unit and be a role model for the team and organisation.
    Nurture a culture of excellence and performance within the organization with processes to measure & recognize merit.
    Drive establishment of processes for quality and compliance in all areas of the business.

    A seasoned leader who has worked in roles focused on Engineering & Data Science. An understanding and appreciation of all aspects of business, technology and data science would be key.
    Seeking an entrepreneurial VP Engineering who has a passion for building elite - teams, ideas, architectures and platforms.

    Worked during a hyper-growth at a B2B company with experience in managing the complexity of multiple products serving multiple industries/markets/segments and buyers.

    Track-record of building extraordinary teams. Remote First Policy
    Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
    PTO & Holidays
    We celebrate diversity and believe it is critical to our success as a company.

    We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected status.