[Hiring] VP of Engineering @Change.org

Role Description

Change.org is searching for a VP of Engineering to shepherd the technical vision along with other pillar leadership and help enable other cross-functional partners to contribute technically to our product. You will report to our CTO. As a key member of our Elections team, you are an AI forward strategic executive leader focused on scaling, maturing and innovating in how the team operates.

Key Outcomes:

• Clear and strong AI collaboration model between the functions
• Strong technical leadership as we evolve the ways in which we build our product
• Deliver significant increases in user engagement and growth through product-driven growth initiatives
• Establish a strong, trusted partnership with the VP of Product—jointly owning growth strategy and execution
• Influence cross-functional alignment and company-wide direction on growth—establishing best practices and driving coordination across engineering, product, and marketing
• Drive Change.vote's data foundation strategy — a master data system reconciling external authorities with AI extraction and human-in-the-loop review to produce a provenanced, product-ready civic data corpus

The most important core competencies for the role are:

• Cross functional collaboration and evolution using AI
• High scale data platform leadership
• Scaled consumer product experience
• Building a product that can deal with bursty traffic patterns around elections

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including hands-on coding and architecture
• 7+ years in engineering leadership roles, including managing managers
• Proven experience leading new product teams or cross-functional squads
• Experience scaling products across diverse or international user bases

Requirements

• Professional-level English proficiency is required for all roles

Benefits

• Benefits and perks vary based on location