Vice President, Engineering

Posit•Boston, MA

12h•$310,000 - $330,000•Remote

About The Position

At Posit, we are entering an exciting new chapter of innovation. Your mission is to lead the continued evolution of our core authoring suite, including Positron, the RStudio IDE, and Workbench, into an AI-native era. Not only do we need to innovate and reimagine what our products can be in this new world, but we also need to remake how software engineering works when AI assistance is woven into it. You will act as a strategic guide, helping our high-performing teams navigate this fundamental shift while championing the psychological safety and open-source values that define Posit’s culture.

Requirements

Pragmatic AI Vision: A grounded, expert view on how AI can fundamentally improve software effectiveness without losing sight of user needs.
Development Tool Expertise: Deep experience with IDEs, extensions, or language runtimes. You can engage deeply with Principal Engineers on architectural trade-offs.
The "Data Science" Perspective: A strong background in Analytics or Data Science. You understand the user's “why” as much as the “how”.
Enterprise Groundedness: Experience building software for the unique constraints of Fortune 500 IT environments (auth, security, and compliance).
Collaborative Change Management: A proven ability to lead organizations through periods of growth and technological shifts with empathy and clarity.

Responsibilities

AI Engineering: Guide the teams on how AI-centered features should be developed, tested, secured, deployed, scaled and maintained.
Engineering with AI : Evolve our engineering practices, integrating AI assistance to drive new levels of efficiency, quality, collaboration and innovation.
Execution, Agility and Pace: Partner with engineering leads and managers to optimize our development cycles for the rapid, iterative pace of the modern AI landscape.
Enterprise Readiness: Maintain our commitment to enterprise-grade reliability, ensuring our tools remain easy to manage for IT leaders in complex, secure environments.
Integrated Product Experience: Ensure our tools work seamlessly together as a unified ecosystem, providing a consistent and high-quality experience for users across different environments.
Product Vision: Collaborate with product leadership and internal stakeholders to align our technical roadmaps with the long-term future of data science.
Cross-functional Alignment: Work across the organization to turn ambitious goals into clear, actionable plans with shared ownership.
Team Culture: Cultivate a thriving, growing, resilient and fully distributed engineering organization that learns and continuously innovates.

Benefits

Posit offers competitive compensation with extensive human-first, people-focused benefits to prioritize your personal and financial well-being.
100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums are covered for employees and their families!
Fertility and gender-affirming healthcare is included in all of our plans.
Supplemental mental health and wellness benefits are available via Ginger even if you don’t opt in to our insurance plans, including Ginger for teen family members.
Posit's gender-neutral paid parental leave policy covers all new parents, including foster and adoptive parents.
All full-time employees are eligible for 401k enrollment starting on day one.
After six months of employment, Posit provides a substantial yearly match to employee 401K contributions.
An annual profit-sharing bonus for employees recognizes our team’s contributions to company performance across the year.
We offer a $400 monthly reimbursement for coworking space rental if you prefer to work away from home.
Our Lifestyle Savings Account offers an initial deposit of $1800 and then an additional quarterly stipend of $375 to cover the costs of professional development, wellness, financial health, charitable giving, and remote work support.
We provide a flexible environment with a generous vacation policy that encourages a minimum of four weeks PTO per year plus 15 paid company holidays.