Director of Engineering, VTS
Data and AI/ML Platforms
$27.5-310k
+ Equity
4 days a week in office
Commercial real estate technology solution
Open for applications
Commercial real estate technology solution
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$27.5-310k
+ Equity
4 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unify owners, operators, brokers, and tenants to capitalize on opportunities revealed in every square foot of their properties.
Role
Who you are
- 5-7+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers and mentoring high-performing, cross-functional teams
- Proven track record of delivering impactful AI solutions that solve complex business challenges and create strategic value
- Deep technical expertise in GenAI, LLMs, and modern AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), with hands-on experience integrating LLMs and designing prompt-based applications
- Strong contributor to technical strategy and product direction—balancing innovation, ethical AI governance, and business alignment
- Skilled at evaluating AI/ML trade-offs, mitigating risks, and aligning technical investments with customer needs and product goals
- High degree of creativity and passion for responsible AI, with experience driving ethical standards and compliance in AI product development
- Demonstrated ability to foster collaborative, inclusive team cultures that build and scale high-quality, AI-augmented products
- Effective communicator and storyteller—able to distill complex AI/ML topics to align and influence stakeholders across product, sales, marketing, and customer success
- Experienced in recruiting, developing, and promoting emerging talent, with a strong focus on coaching, mentorship, and technical growth
- Thrive in dynamic, fast-paced startup environments, with strong strategic thinking, adaptability, and a bias toward action
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to own the engineering for AI/ML and Core data platforms for VTS products
- This role will drive new AI initiatives to increase data quality and usage around our most critical datasets
- You’ll also be responsible for simplifying how data comes into VTS
- You’ll be leading a motivated, results-oriented team through the next phase of our business while driving efficient engineering processes and coaching team members
- Lead delivery of a high-impact, technically complex product roadmap in close partnership with product and business stakeholders
- Provide thought leadership on the practical application of GenAI, LLMs, and emerging ML/NLP technologies to solve real-world product and engineering challenges
- Define and uphold AI governance standards, ensuring fairness, transparency, privacy compliance, and responsible development practices
- Translate advanced AI/ML concepts into actionable strategies that influence product direction and create business value
- Provide leadership on a high-performing Data platform team
- Mentor manager(s) and staff-level engineers, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture
- Champion DevOps excellence through strong observability, reliability, and continuous improvement practices
- Drive data literacy and scalable data management patterns across engineering
- Evaluate, pilot, and scale emerging technologies—including AI agents, multimodal interfaces, and rapid prototyping environments—to improve customer experience and operational efficiency
- Develop and track product success and operational excellence metrics to inform decisions and drive outcomes
- The VTS Product-Engineering-Design-QA organization is about ~120 plus people
- We work in small, cross-functional teams that include product managers, product designers, engineers and QA
- We value continuous learning in our everyday work
- We deploy daily and rely heavily on automated testing, and CI, and feature flags
- We use agile development and lean startup principles and practices to deliver products
- Our stack: AWS, Spark, Airflow, Python, Scala
Our take
Commercial real estate is a difficult business sector to plan for, especially for the largest firms managing huge portfolios of prime office space. Marketing, leasing, data analytics and retention efforts have traditionally required an array of different solutions, often poorly integrated with one another (if at all), and decision-making is often stymied by inaccurate reporting and inflexible, clunky tools.
VTS, a leading player in the commercial real estate tech sector, seeks to change this by unifying every real estate asset and function in a single platform. Combining marketing, asset management and reporting functions into a single interface, it also delivers data insights for decision makers to inform their investment and asset strategies.
VTS's user base has grown to over 45,000 commercial real estate firms including Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, and LaSalle Investment Management, and about 60% of the US's top quality office space is managed through its platform. Having raised a significant amount of funding it is investing heavily in research and development, sourcing strategic acquisitions and hiring additional talent.
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Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2022
$125m
SERIES E
May 2019
$90m
SERIES D
Total funding: $304.6m
Company benefits
- Parental Leave: 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 6 weeks 100% paid leave for the secondary.
- Wellness: Dedicated monthly wellness events to promote physical and mental well-being.
- Exec coaching & mentorship: Extensive leadership coaching and mentorship offered through the year.
- Own a piece of VTS: Be an owner of the company you’re building with our equity packages.
- Never stop learning: VTS regularly hosts informal education sessions and provides an allowance for external courses.
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Nick Romito
(Co-Founder & CEO)Started his career in commercial real estate over a decade ago as a tenant rep and landlord broker at New York City’s Murray Hill Properties. Then went on to AM Properties before becoming the founder and CEO of Titan Advisors in 2009. Founded VTS in 2010.
Ryan Masiello
(Co-Founder)Started his career at Cushman & Wakefield, before getting recruited by JLL to help lead the firm’s business development efforts in New York, eventually becoming Senior Vice President.
Niall Smart
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously co-founder and CTO at Hightower, and earlier was co-founder of Echodio, a Y-Combinator backed digital media startup that was acquired by RealNetworks in 2009.
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