Job description

The Opportunity
Do you have what it takes to shape our quickly growing engineering organization by working directly with the CTO to set it up for scale?

As our VP Engineering, your mission is to grow our high-profile, high-impact engineering organization together with our CTO. With the heads of our four software engineering and IT departments, you will design and architect solutions to technically complex problems, guide the transition to become SaaS only, shape our cross-functional development team topology, ensure alignment and focus across our teams and shape our products.

At NavVis you will find an environment of open minds that strive for ownership, autonomy, and alignment in each of our cross-functional product teams. Engineering and Product Managers partner to understand and solve our customers' problems. Alignment and Focus across the company is achieved via OKRs. You will build the future of NavVis together with the Managing Directors and founders.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in a fast-growing and high-scale tech company distributed across the US, Europe, and China. You'll be taking our products to the next level within a high talent density team and out-of-the-box thinking. Having raised 85 million up to now; you’ll be working with a team that is scaling globally, fast.

How you will make an impact

• Act as the driving force behind engineering, technology, and product operations within the company
• Lead experienced engineering department heads that cover a broad tech stack and be responsible for mentoring and developing them to create a culture that encourages support and independence
• Collaborate closely with the product managers in defining roadmaps that align with the quarterly OKRs around company goals that you will drive
• Continuously work towards improving team efficiency and engineering capacity by improving the flow and addressing technical debt in our products and processes
• Play a key role in recruiting top engineering talent
• Be the go-to person and sparring partner for critical system design and architectural decisions (with a focus on Cloud and SaaS products)
• Contribute to overall company product and business strategy as a key member of the leadership team

What will help you succeed in the role

• You are a strong motivator, leader, team player with a record of leading and mentoring employees
• You bring about 7+ years of experience as a technology leader with a proven track record of leading Engineering teams
• Significant strategic experience growing and managing multiple cross-functional engineering teams (including software engineers, architects, quality assurance, product operations and infrastructure)
• "Roll-up-your-sleeves" entrepreneurial, Start-Up attitude
• Mentality of "empowerment & trust"
• Pragmatic approach that allows the team(s) to iterate fast towards world-class results (vs drown in perfection)
• The ability to attract, hire, and coach world-class engineers
• Business fluency in written & spoken English, German is a plus

Tech Background

• Proven track record with 7+ years of software engineering experience in larger projects, preferably (B2B) SaaS products
• Profound knowledge in parts of our tech stack (ideally TypeScript, Java, C++)
• Experience in cloud-based software architecture (ideally AWS)
• Excited to be solving and aligning technical & architectural problems with the engineering org
• Deep curiosity and knowledge of technical trends in the industry as well as competitors
• Your are an Advocate of Agile, Scrum, and DevOps methodologies and principles

How we will keep you smiling

• It's important to take a break from work! We offer 30 days of paid time off per year
• We offer flexible working hours and a hybrid work setup, enabling you to plan your work around your life, and not your life around work!
• We offer full visa and relocation support for international candidates
• A competitive compensation package that values the skills and experience you bring
• Up to 4000 EUR employee referral bonus
• German language classes to help you in your journey of integrating into the German culture!

About us

NavVis is a technologically-focused, global leader in reality capture and digital factory solutions. Prominent manufacturers and laser scanning professionals from across the world trust our ground-breaking technology, which is designed to capture and share the built environment as photorealistic digital twins.

More than 300 people from over 70 countries and offices spread around the globe make us a truly international and diverse place to work. With the innovation of startups and the stability of large enterprises at our core, we combine the best of both worlds.

You will be part of an open culture that encourages the sharing of ideas and thrives on mutual trust, respect, and transparency. We love giving and receiving honest feedback that will empower us to continuously improve and grow in the right direction.

Do you share our passion for our disruptive technology and want to be a part of our dynamic growth journey? You will get to own projects, implement innovative solutions, and be recognized for your successes!

How you will grow with us

• Flat hierarchy with an open feedback culture, including 360° developmental feedback aimed at holistic professional development
• Access to a learning & developmental platform with trainings tailored to your needs on a broad range of topics
• With a keen desire to invest in your personal growth, we offer clear career development paths and internal mobility opportunities

We derive our strength from our diversity.
NavVis’ unwavering commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace has laid the foundation for our incredible growth. We thrive on the collective strength of our people who come from diverse backgrounds. We respect and value every experience associated with race, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, religion and disability. We do not discriminate on the basis of any of these, or other identities, and strongly encourage everyone to apply.

Together with you, we build NavVis!

If you need assistance at any stage of the recruiting process due to a disability, please reach out to your recruiting partner(s) for this position.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

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