Vice President of Engineering, Klue
CA$250-300k
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office
Competitive enablement software
Be an early applicant
Competitive enablement software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$250-300k
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Klue's mission is to enable revenue teams with the insights they need to win, when they need it, and wherever they live.
Role
Who you are
- You have a passion for and experience leading development teams/organizations through inspiration and building on the vision for our product, company and category
- You have plenty of related experience including leading the development process in partnership with product management
- Experience recruiting, mentoring, and guiding a development team with empathy, transparency and inspiration to contribute to our culture and meet goals and objectives through your leadership style
- You can build and lead engineer orgs with 30 to 300 people
- You can partner with teams including Product, Sales and Customer Success to play a key role in executing on product roadmap
What the job involves
- People are the key to our success. Naturally you will play a key role in attracting talent, and keeping engineering teams healthy and thriving. We want people to be motivated by what they work on and enabled to reach and even exceed their potential. You will be the primary owner of scaling the Engineering Team to conceive, deliver and maintain category leading software solutions
- You will continuously audit programs and practices that build a vibrant engineering culture, develop employees, and ensure highly engaged teams to identify gaps and continue to elevate the Engineering Organization
- You will work closely with our CTO & VP Product on our business vision, technology strategy, product roadmaps, and market positioning. You will work together with the rest of the Senior Leadership Team to establish appropriate priorities for Engineering teams that deliver the biggest impact to customers
- This isn’t an Engineering-only role - you’ll be expected to stretch outside of your comfort zone, and drive impact across the whole company. Put another way, as an SLT member, you’ll work closely with other leaders across the business as partners in order to drive company results
- You will readily establish credibility with engineers, and lead in a manner that inspires trust and excellence
- You will represent the needs of engineering teams and facilitate translating business goals into execution plans
- You will be reporting directly to the CEO
- Klue is a remote-friendly organization, we have employees in many time zones. Ideally you will be in Vancouver where the majority of the Engineering Team and Senior Management Team are located. A location in Toronto could work if you are willing to travel to Vancouver as necessary
- Built out an organization, held people accountable, shipped innovative product
- Articulate the strategic vision of the company and the product to the engineering team to ensure transparency, alignment, inspiration and excitement to execute
- Setting and executing on key performance measures for the engineering team to ensure company goals are met (if not exceeded!) including productivity and efficiency as we scale including key performance metrics
- Mentoring and evolving a career path for the management and development team
- Organizational design for both engineering teams and their PM/UX counterparts - working in conjunction with VP Product/CTO on team design as we scale
- Process design and implementation/change management
- Finance - Budgeting/forecasting as well as managing tax incentives like SR&ED / equivalent in other regions
- Communication of engineering goals, progress and status to broader stakeholders at Klue (CEO/Board/Org, etc.)
- Oversee the daily operations of our SaaS platform: 1) Budgeting / Cost controls / Ops strategy / Vendor management, 2) DevOps / Platform Engineering / SecOps, 3) Ensure SLA/SLOs are met including org-wide responses to issues
Application process
- All interviews will be conducted via video calls. We work in a hybrid model of WFH (remote) and in-office. We’re excited to meet you and in the meantime, get to know us:
Our take
The integration of market data into the many functions of enterprise has been a consistent trend in SaaS markets for a number of years. Klue is taking a similar approach for teams looking to understand competitive landscapes.
The startup is uniquely attempting to create a new category of ‘competitive enablement software’. Whereas other software companies sought to fix a company’s business intelligence needs or content placement strategies, Klue brings all of these services together under the lens of competitive positioning.
Klue plans to find ways to reduce the burden of collecting intel and also automate insights. The company wants to introduce deeper integrations with enterprise tools like Slack, Salesforce, Gong, Highspot and Gainsights.
The biggest risk facing the company is that their product is currently more enterprise friendly, supported by customer specialists. For the software company to achieve true scale, they will want to democratise access to competitive enablement with a self-serve software available to small businesses.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2023
$2m
GRANT
Dec 2021
$62m
SERIES B
Total funding: $89.1m
Company benefits
- We gather compensation benchmarking data across BC and Canada’s Tech Industry, and use that data to build a range for our current team and future talent based on skill, capabilities and potential
- We currently have extended health benefits
- Vacation. Unlimited Vacation. We want the team to prioritize wellness and avoid burnout. We want to also give individuals autonomy to choose how and when they take vacation. We understand and respect that everyone’s needs for time off are different, just like our team.
- Work-life integration: Hybrid work model, flexible working schedules, and a global team
Company values
- Builders
- Intellectually Curious
- Ambitious
- Objective Oriented
Company HQ
Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
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Leadership
Jason Smith
(CEO)Key roles include President at Vision Critical, a global market research software leader, and co-founder of Columbus Group, a digital agency pioneer acquired by TELUS. Advisor and consultant to early-stage companies. Stint as a VP at Electronic Arts.
Sarathay Naicker
(CTO)Prior to Klue, Sarathay rose to become the Chief Technologist at major cloud company, Sophos. Prior to that Sarathay was a senior developer at ActiveState until 2003.
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