Director of Engineering, VTS
Data and AI/Machine Learning Platforms
+ Equity packages
Commercial real estate platform
Open for applications
Commercial real estate platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity packages
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be commercial real estate’s modern operating system, the place where data comes to life and deals happen.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers and mentoring high-performing, cross-functional teams
- 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
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a Director of Engineering 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
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
- Comprehensive health benefits (including dental and vision)
- Flexible vacation time
- 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave to the primary caregiver and 6 weeks 100% paid parental leave to the secondary caregiver
- Dedicated monthly wellness events to promote physical and mental well-being
- Company equity
- Professional development allowance
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Nick Romito
(CEO & Co-Founder)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
(CTO & Co-Founder)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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