Vice President of Engineering, Craft.co
$250k
Procurement and supply chain analytics platform
Job no longer available
Procurement and supply chain analytics platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$250k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make global supply chains more resilient.
Role
Who you are
- A seasoned technology leader with experience in an early-stage, growth-minded Enterprise SaaS organization: you know what it takes to both scale and sustain high performing teams
- Vision & Direction: You have experience leading an organization and understand how to build roadmaps that directly contribute to the success of company objectives
- A problem solver, able to balance competing priorities, strong process orientation and ability to manage through complexity and rapid change
- Excellent managerial skills and interpersonal skills: You can effectively communicate and collaborate with all areas of engineering and interact and work with staff at all levels
- Influence: You build strong relationships through your expertise and align your team and stakeholders to what’s best for Craft
- Deep understanding of software engineering and architecture - you’ve been a developer in the past but are focused on leadership now
- Domain expertise in supply chain, prescriptive analytics solutions, procurement or risk
- Experience partnering with cross-functional leaders across a globally distributed organization and exercising sound judgment
- Experience working in agile methodologies
- Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments
- Hands-on, "can do" attitude and a bias for action; gets it done, on time every time without cutting corners
- Low ego and high intellectual curiosity
What the job involves
- As VP of Engineering, you'll lead a disciplined, scrappy, and effective Engineering team. Reporting directly to the CEO, this is a “seat at the table” role in which you’ll have a significant impact in shaping the evolution of our product, and our company’s growth overall
- Lead Craft’s Engineering teams in building and maintaining a best-in-class Supplier Intelligence Platform that continues to deliver trustworthy, delightful, and constantly evolving functionality to our users
- Develop organizational-level goals and drive the technical and organizational roadmap for Craft’s various Engineering teams
- Identify and execute the processes needed to achieve operational excellence in all areas, including project management and system reliability
- Balance the teams' work to add new features and pay down tech debt to ensure an efficient, stable, and marketable suite
- Build credibility with engineers, lead technical reviews and discussions, ensure best practices are developed and enforced, and advocate for the needs of the engineers
- Develop a team structure that is inclusive, thoughtful and efficient
- Partner closely with the VP, Product to develop the vision for our product offering and ensure that the software architecture is designed for the near and long term
- Influence key decisions on architecture and implementation of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective engineering solutions
- Iterate quickly without compromising quality and raise the bar on operational excellence
- Create timelines and budget for the development, timely delivery, and deployment of all large scale engineering initiatives
- Evaluate technology and vendors, always looking for ways to improve the way we build products
- Partner closely with People Team to advise on recruitment and retention of top engineering talent
- Be a steward of the Craft culture: exemplify our core values and maintain an inclusive environment within and beyond the engineering team
Our take
Maintaining a seamless supply chain is essential to the success of most businesses, with procurement teams being responsible for sourcing new suppliers, analysing inventory data, and generating forecasts. However, analysing such data requires the repetitive and specialist work of data engineers for both parties, making the sourcing process time-consuming.
Craft.co provides a procurement and supply chain analytics platform, integrating with other supply chain platforms to track inventories and produce forecasts. The platform allows users to save and organise thousands of suppliers in a portfolio, and source new suppliers in minutes based on over 450 data points, leveraging automatic insights to assess for risk and ensure requirements are met.
The main challenge Craft.co will face is the range of AI-driven supply chain analytics platforms appearing on the market, but the company uniquely combines such technology with a real-time analytics-driven procurement marketplace. Furthermore, Craft.co's 2023 round of funding will help it to rocket-boost its new focus on analytic, cloud-based collaboration, and management workflow capabilities.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2023
$32m
SERIES B
Aug 2020
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $42m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental Leave
- 99% Benefits Coverage
- 401k plan
- Hybrid Hub Strategy
- Flexible Work Hours
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ilya Levtov
(Co-Founder & CEO)Member of the Executive Leadership Forum of the Digital Supply Chain Institute since 2019. Experience as a Business Developer for Deutsche Telekom.
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