VP Engineering

Copia Automation•New York City, NY

2d•$240,000 - $324,000

About The Position

Copia Automation brings modern developer tools and resiliency to industrial automation. Our product provides Git-based source control for automation professionals as well as state of the art backup and recover technology critical to operational uptime and cyber resiliency. We are a well-funded startup and with a growing list of happy customers throughout the industrial space. As a Copia employee, you’ll solve challenging, unique, and meaningful problems alongside passionate coworkers, while we change the way everything gets built. The VP of Engineering ensures that the Copia Automation software team delivers with speed (as measured by consistently hitting mutually agreed upon milestones and deadlines) and quality (as measured through reliability and uptime), and that consistency of delivery continues as we add headcount, product, and technical scope to the team.

Requirements

Experience in an engineering leadership position , preferably at a company that has gone from Series A to C.
Strong security background.
Speed. Start-ups live and die on engineering delivery speed. Empowers engineers to quickly make decisions and drive the engineering team to productive, outcome driven decisions (avoid Yak Shaving and Bikeshedding).
Efficiency. Understands the exact resources necessary to deliver business outcomes. Hires appropriately and ties new headcount to clear business impact and new product delivery.
Organization. Organized and builds adequate process and invests in appropriate tooling to ensure consistency of project delivery.
Attention to detail. Understands why engineering decisions are getting made and can parse through and articulate critical technical details that impact delivery.
Ability to hire A players. Can recruit and hire A players to the engineering team. The best people want to work for them.
Flexibility and adaptability. Can quickly pivot and update priors based off of new information. Doesn’t get stressed in a rapidly evolving environment. Low ego to previously stated opinion.
Aligns with Copia cultural values. Low ego, hypothesis driven + empirical, outcome driven, gets the customer to success, optimistic, and builds organizational trust.