Vice President of Engineering, Platform & Architecture, Optro
$254-292k
+ Equity + Bonus
AI-powered GRC software
Open for applications
AI-powered GRC software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$254-292k
+ Equity + Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To redefine GRC through a single, AI-powered system of action.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a rare combination of deep technical judgment, systems thinking, product mindset, and transformational leadership
- Have led major platform modernization or re-architecture efforts in a scaling enterprise SaaS company
- Have successfully evolved legacy or monolithic systems into scalable, modular architectures
- Know how to balance long-term architectural quality with near-term business needs
- Can lead both platform product strategy and platform engineering execution
- Have experience owning shared services in an enterprise B2B SaaS environment including access/permissions, APIs/integrations, data platforms
- Understand how foundational architecture decisions impact engineering velocity, reliability, AI readiness, and customer experience
- Think creatively about solving hard technical problems rather than relying on rigid or purely textbook approaches
- Can build credibility with senior product, engineering, AI, GTM/customer, and executive leaders
- Know how to bring teams along through transformation, not just define the future-state architecture
- Experience in B2B SaaS, enterprise platforms, or workflow software
- Experience leading architecture modernization in a live, scaled product environment
- Track record of building high-performing teams and transforming legacy technical environments
What the job involves
- This is not a traditional platform role
- We are looking for a leader who can help re-platform and re-architect Optro for the AI era — faster, pragmatically, and with clear business impact we build the next-generation AI-native platform for connected risk and GRC
- We are at a pivotal moment in our journey. What began as a category-defining platform for audit has evolved into a broader connected risk platform serving multiple business domains. Now, as AI reshapes enterprise software, we are accelerating our transformation to build the first GRC platform designed for agentic autonomy from the data model up
- To help lead that transformation, we are looking for a bold, deeply technical, and highly pragmatic leader to own our Platform & Architecture organization
- This is a high-impact transformation role for a leader who wants to shape the future of a category. You will lead Optro’s Platform & Architecture organization, including strategy, roadmap, and execution across our foundational platform capabilities
- Architecture transformation across application, service and data layers, modernizing core architecture in a way that materially improves engineering velocity
- Platform product and engineering for shared capabilities used across all business domains
- Permissions / Access platform modernization, including accelerating delivery of Permission 2.0
- Identity, authentication, authorization, and entitlement architecture
- API and integration strategy, including improving speed, extensibility, and partner/customer value
- Core data services and shared data model, enabling roll-up reporting, shared inventory, AI insights, and connected risk workflows
- Cross-product platform services that unlock faster delivery across Audit, Risk, Compliance, and future domains
- Architecture team leadership, ensuring architecture drives delivery and business value rather than becoming an ivory tower function
Our take
Optro (formerly AuditBoard) provides risk and compliance software for large businesses. The company's founders spent years working at the Big Four and other global enterprises, and realized that many audit activities were still taking place in Excel sheets, or using legacy software like IBM's OpenPages, which hadn't kept up to date with the latest reporting requirements.
The result was an end-to-end platform for managing risk, helping enterprises to streamline internal audit, SOX compliance, controls management, risk management, and security compliance. It's a top-rated cloud-based platform and has won numerous awards, with the company being consistently named the market leader in Audit Management.
Now Optro is focused on expanding its AI-powered GRC platform. Following its rebrand from AuditBoard, the company acquired AI-native SOX automation platform Midship to help audit teams automate repetitive work and focus more on strategic risk analysis. And impressively, more than 50% of the Fortune 500 now use Optro's platform as it continues building AI-driven tools for risk, compliance, and cybersecurity teams.
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Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2018
$40m
SERIES B
Apr 2017
$3.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $43.6m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness benefits: High quality health plans and access to hormonal and family-building support.
- Time away from work: Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, sick time, bereavement, and more.
- Financial benefits: Beyond a competitive salary, plans are provided to assist in your financial future including retirement and pension plans as well as life and disability insurance.
- Parental leave: Parents are eligible for time off to care for their newborn, adopted child, or foster child. Parental leave benefits and pay vary by location.
- Professional development: Continuously grow through development workshops, mentoring programs, and more.
- Community impact: We partner with communities to provide services in addition to sponsoring our own events.
- Live your best life: Invest in yourself, on us. Our monthly wellness stipend is designed to support your life beyond the screen, giving you the flexibility to fuel your passions and your well-being.
- Mental health: Access to Headspace’s well known meditation support plus coaching and therapy, for you and additional loved ones.
Company HQ
Wilmington, DE
Leadership
Raul Villar Jr.
(CEO)Prior to joining Optro in 2025, Raul was the CEO of Paycor for nearly 6 years. They also spent over 8 years at AdvancedMD and nearly 22 years at ADP.
Jim Sperduto
(CGO)Prior to joining Optro in 2025, Jim spent over 30 years at ADP. While there, they held a number of roles, including President of Small Business, Retirement, and Insurance Services.
Haibei (Happy) Wang
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Prior to joining Optro in 2023, Haibei was the CTO at Everbridge and Skupos. They also held VP roles at Globality, AccelOps and Scripps Network Interactive.
April Crichlow
(CMO)April spent over 17 years at SAP, ultimately as CMO at SAP SuccessFactors. They then spent 3 years at Centrical as CMO before joining Optro in 2025.
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