Head of Engineering
About The Position
Ninety is the leading EOS® software trusted by 18,000+ companies to help business owners run stronger businesses and grow valuations. We bring vision, goals, execution rhythm, and business metrics into one connected platform, backed by an ecosystem of expert support, professional services, partners, and AI. We have strong financials with a long runway, we lead our category, and we’re investing in product marketing as a growth engine. If you enjoy building, shaping strategy, and tying your work to measurable outcomes, you’ll have real ownership here. Ninety is at an inflection point: the product is evolving quickly, and the business is ready to level up how we take new capabilities to market. We’re opening a new Head of Engineering role for someone who can build repeatable systems and raise the bar for what “great” software engineering looks like in a lean, high-impact environment.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading and scaling engineering organizations within high-growth SaaS environments, ideally through Series B/C stages
- Demonstrated ability to lead organizations through periods of rapid growth, ambiguity, and organizational evolution
- Strong technical background with the ability to engage deeply in architecture, systems design, platform strategy, and engineering tradeoff discussions
- Experience incorporating AI/ML capabilities into products, platforms, workflows, or engineering operations
- Deep understanding of modern software development practices, cloud-native architectures, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and platform reliability
- Strong commitment to agile development principles, iterative/incremental execution, continuous delivery, and customer-centered product development
- Demonstrated success building high-performing engineering cultures that emphasize ownership, accountability, collaboration, and learning
- Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineering managers and senior technical leaders
- Ability to create structure and drive execution in environments where requirements and priorities may evolve rapidly
- Strong communication and executive alignment skills, including the ability to translate complex technical topics into business outcomes
- Experience balancing short-term execution needs with long-term architectural and organizational health
- Strong product and business orientation with a focus on measurable customer and company impact
- Experience establishing engineering processes, metrics, and operational mechanisms appropriate for scaling organizations
- High degree of adaptability, pragmatism, and comfort operating in fast-moving environments with incomplete information
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred; equivalent practical experience welcomed
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the engineering strategy aligned to company objectives, product roadmap, and long-term platform scalability
- Lead the evolution of the company’s technology organization as it adapts to an increasingly AI-enabled product and operational future
- Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization
- Establish strong engineering operating principles grounded in agile development, iterative delivery, rapid feedback loops, and continuous improvement
- Drive execution excellence across planning, prioritization, delivery predictability, operational reliability, and technical quality
- Collaborate deeply with Product, Design, Stakeholders, and Executive Leadership to translate ambiguous business opportunities into executable strategies
- Create a culture that balances speed, innovation, customer impact, and long-term technical sustainability
- Own architecture evolution and technical decision-making, ensuring systems remain scalable, secure, resilient, and adaptable
- Lead adoption of AI technologies across both the product portfolio and internal engineering workflows where they create measurable leverage
- Develop engineering managers and technical leaders capable of scaling with the organization
- Establish metrics, processes, and organizational mechanisms that improve visibility, accountability, and execution consistency
- Ensure engineering practices support enterprise-grade security, compliance, reliability, and customer trust expectations
- Drive recruiting and organizational design strategies to attract and retain exceptional engineering talent
- Foster strong cross-functional collaboration while helping the organization operate effectively through rapid change and ambiguity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
