[Hiring] Vice President of Engineering @1Password

Role Description

The Vice President of Platform Engineering reports to the CTO and leads the strategy, organization, and execution for 1Password’s core service and development platforms. The VP is accountable for building secure, reliable, and scalable foundations that enable teams across 1Password to deliver, operate, and own with autonomy, speed, and unambiguous accountability. The VP owns operations, drives delivery, and develops a high-performing team to achieve impactful results.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 7 years in a leadership role, preferably with experience building and operating at the intersections of IaaS, SaaS, and the cybersecurity industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related fields; or proven equivalent work experience.
• Proven track record establishing durable, full-lifecycle ownership for critical platforms and services, including adoption, customer experience, reliability, security, cost, incident response, and continued evolution.
• Proven ability delivering and operating cost-effective mission-critical infrastructure and platform systems serving internal- and consumer-facing software products, operational efficiency and market expansion.
• Strong business and technical acumen in systems and software engineering, proven ability to lead an organization and culture delivering best practices and innovation.
• Exceptional analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to define, develop and execute strategic plans across a wide set of objectives, driving committed quantifiable results.
• Extensive experience in building, maintaining, and influencing operational excellence, including process and system optimization, scalability, and the development and management of performance metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with C-suite leaders and cross-functional teams, aligning on strategic priorities to achieve shared objectives.
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly, build trust, inspire broadly, gaining alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Proven expertise in leading and sustaining multi-year transformational initiatives in fast-paced, complex, and dynamic environments.
• Proven experience building, developing and scaling high-performing teams.

Requirements

• Continuously evolve, develop and execute the Platform Engineering vision, strategy, objectives, and roadmaps, aligning and laddering it with the company strategy and customer needs.
• Lead multi-year changes to 1Password’s engineering architecture and operating model, building shared platforms, supported paths, and common practices that improve reliability, security, developer effectiveness, and the company’s ability to scale.
• Lead technology-adjacent strategic initiatives that facilitate delivering best-in-class engineering results, from inspiration and innovation, to implementation and iterative improvement.
• Design and evolve the organization, ownership model, and operating mechanisms needed to execute the strategy.
• Advance how software is built and operated across 1Password through ubiquitous engineering standards, operational excellence, and safe, measurable Agentic Engineering practices.
• Establish clear, quantifiable outcomes across the organization and operating mechanisms that expose progress, quality, adoption, operational health, and business impact.
• Build strong relationships across the company to proactively identify needs, align strategies, and optimize your company-wide impact.
• Build and lead a high-performing team by mentoring and coaching direct reports, evaluating organizational talent, and implementing plans to prepare talent for future business demands.
• Invest in the growth and development of the leaders within the technology organization across 1Password.
• Drive and evolve our high-performance culture, fostering psychological safety, inclusivity, ownership, and agility.
• In partnership with Finance, own the organization’s investment and capacity strategy, balancing current operations, future-state transformation, and targeted growth.

Benefits

• USA-based roles: The annual base salary for this role is between $302,000 USD and $483,000 USD, plus immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.
• Canada-based roles: The annual base salary for this role is between $278,000 CAD and $445,000 CAD, plus immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.
• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs.
• Competitive health benefits.
• Generous PTO policy.
• RSU program for most employees.
• Retirement matching program.
• Free 1Password account.
• Paid volunteer days.
• Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly.
• Remote-first work environment.

Company Description

At 1Password, we’re building the foundation for a safe, productive digital future. Our mission is to unleash employee productivity without compromising security by ensuring every identity is authentic, every application sign-in is secure, and every device is trusted. We innovated the market-leading enterprise password manager and pioneered Unified Access Management, a new cybersecurity category built for the way people and AI agents work today.