Vice President, Software Engineering (PRE-ID)

LINEAGE LOGISTICS HOLDINGS, LLC•Novi, MI

About The Position

Lineage is transforming the global cold chain through cutting-edge technology, deep logistics expertise, and a clear purpose: to eliminate waste and help feed the world. As the company continues to expand its reach and evolve its operating model, Lineage is investing heavily in the development and maturation of its internal technology platforms to drive performance, reliability, and value at scale. This role sits at the heart of that ambition. As Vice President of Software Engineering, you will have accountability for Lineage’s two most critical software platforms – LinOS and Connect – leading a global engineering team of over 200 people and overseeing significant multi-million-dollar product development budgets. Your remit will span from hands-on architecture and incident response through to roadmap planning, budget strategy, and senior stakeholder engagement. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of supply chain technology at true scale. The successful candidate will bring a balance of technical credibility, delivery discipline, and business fluency – helping Lineage move from an engineering organisation with strong intent to one with consistent, world-class execution. This role requires a seasoned engineering leader with the technical depth, commercial acumen, and leadership maturity to operate at pace and scale within a fast-evolving global technology organisation. The successful candidate will bring clarity, discipline and delivery excellence to Lineage’s most business-critical software products, while strengthening the engineering culture and fostering trust across Product, Technology, and Executive teams.

Requirements

Extensive experience leading multi-product engineering organizations at scale, ideally within logistics technology, ecommerce, transport tech or other product-led environments.
Proven responsibility for teams exceeding 100 Engineers and multi-million-dollar development budgets is essential.
A strong grasp of modern engineering practices, frameworks and tooling, with fluency in metrics-driven delivery and frameworks such as Agile and DORA.
Exceptional leadership presence, combining confidence with humility.
Strong people leadership and succession mindset.
Cross-cultural effectiveness and global mindset.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
A scale-up mindset, with a clear understanding of how to transition from high-growth or start-up environments into scalable, enterprise-grade delivery models.
Personal resilience and emotional intelligence, comfortable operating in ambiguity, managing trade-offs, and making fast, informed decisions with limited precedent.

Nice To Haves

Technical credibility
Delivery discipline
Business fluency
Calm under pressure
Ability to drive maturity across the software development lifecycle without stifling innovation or speed
Hands-on technical credibility, able to influence architectural and tooling decisions, mentor senior engineers, and raise the technical bar across the organisation.
Comfortable supporting both high-potential individuals and those resistant to change.
Ability to adapt leadership style to suit varying regional dynamics and organisational maturity.
Ability to translate technical issues into business terms, manage executive expectations, and engage credibly with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Leading a global engineering team of over 200 people.
Overseeing significant multi-million-dollar product development budgets.
Hands-on architecture and incident response.
Roadmap planning, budget strategy, and senior stakeholder engagement.
Improving speed, stability, quality, and collaboration across distributed teams.
Managing real-time incident response and leading engineering organizations through complex technical and organizational challenges.
Driving maturity across the software development lifecycle, bringing predictability, structure, and rigor to product delivery.
Managing "positive friction" with peers in Product and Business, and capable of challenging constructively while remaining solutions-oriented.
Influencing architectural and tooling decisions, mentoring senior engineers, and raising the technical bar across the organization.
Coaching Senior Directors and building succession depth for future growth.
Supporting both high-potential individuals and those resistant to change.
Unifying teams and adapting leadership style to suit varying regional dynamics and organizational maturity.
Translating technical issues into business terms, managing executive expectations, and engaging credibly with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Transitioning from high-growth or start-up environments into scalable, enterprise-grade delivery models.
Operating in ambiguity, managing trade-offs, and making fast, informed decisions with limited precedent.