VP, Engineering

Honeycomb.io

10h•Remote

About The Position

Honeycomb is seeking a VP, Engineering to join their executive team. This role is crucial in setting strategy and leading the reinvention of observability in the AI era. The company is a fully distributed, fast-growing organization that has recently closed Series D funding and is recognized as one of America's Best Startups. The VP, Engineering will partner with product and CEO to shape strategy, build alignment within the executive team, and communicate engineering's direction clearly to the entire organization. This role requires leading a high-performing team, adapting the org's structure and goals, and maintaining technical credibility, especially in the context of AI advancements.

Requirements

Led engineering through large-scale changes in direction, not just growth.
Shipped software with AI tools within the last 12 months.
Special talent for collaboration and improving executive teams.
Interest in shaping strategy as much as executing it.
Experience at a larger company, understanding scaling challenges, with a risk tolerance of an early-stage startup.
Comfort with uncertainty, rapid change, and shaping new bets towards product-market fit.
Experience leading distributed teams and communicating well in writing and in person.
Care about developer tools and have good taste in them.
Share Honeycomb's values.

Nice To Haves

Having used Honeycomb is a bonus.

Responsibilities

Shape the strategy for product, technology, and market direction.
Build alignment at the executive team level, acting as a first team partner.
Help the entire organization make sense of fast change and maintain motivation.
Lead a high-performing engineering team, adjusting structure, goals, and ways of working.
Lead from a position of technical credibility, understanding AI's impact on software development.
Communicate engineering's direction clearly and repeatedly, both in writing and in presentations.