Vice President of Engineering, Platform & Architecture, Optro
$254-292k
+ Equity + Bonus
Governance, risk, and compliance software
Be an early applicant
Governance, risk, and compliance software
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$254-292k
+ Equity + Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To transform the way enterprises manage their audit, risk, and compliance programs.
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 provides risk and compliance software for large businesses. The company's founders spent years working at the Big Four and other global enterprises, and realised 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.
The company's current client list of 2000+ includes Boeing, Activision, and Priceline, and nearly half of the Fortune 500. It continues to experience rapid customer growth, with revenues exceeding $100 million and a 60% annual growth rate. The company has been ranked as one of the fastest-growing tech companies in North America for the last three years in a row, and was acquired by private equity firm Hg in 2024 for a reported $3 billion.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
- Vision and dental insurance
- 8-16 weeks paid parental leave
- Company equity
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Cerritos, CA
Leadership
Daniel Kim
(Co-Founder & Senior Advisor)Co-founded AuditBoard in 2014, and served as co-CEO until July 2020. Former Global Director of Internal Audit at Quiksilver and Executive Director, Corporate Audit and Compliance at International Rectifier.
Jay Lee
(Co-Founder, Co-Chair of the Board & Senior Advisor)Co-founded AuditBoard in 2014, and served as co-CEO until July 2020. Former VP of CounterPoint, and was SVP & CFO at Tomich Brothers Seafood.
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