VP, Software Engineering

Many engineering leadership roles focus on execution and technology. This one is different itsstrategic. You own business outcomes and you partner as an equal with Product Management to shape the vision and the roadmap not just deliver against it.

As VP of Software Engineering you lead a global engineering organization across several teams and products within a business domain inDiligentsTechnology organization. You lead through Directors and managers set the technical and organizational strategy and are accountable for delivery reliability security and the overall performance of the organization.

AI-Native Is the MandateNota Side Project

Diligent is an AI-native company and engineering leads the way. You embed AI-native practices across the software development lifecycle stand up reusable platform and AI capabilities and champion the adoption of AI tooling and agentic workflows to accelerate our own engineering productivity with real adoption and impact targets and clear guardrails for security quality data privacy and responsible AI.

Drive Execution

You deliver production-grade systems not experiments. You balance speed with rigor security privacy and compliance are non-negotiable and youoperateacross multiple concurrent initiatives with clear prioritization.

The Organization You Build

You hire coach and develop senior engineering leaders and experts. You design the org for scale across regions plan the workforce against budget and delivery commitments and build an inclusive high-performing culture grounded in accountability experimentation and continuous improvement.

The Rooms Youre In

You partner as an equal with Product Management to shape the vision roadmap and product priorities and work closely with Executive Leadership UX Security Data and Customer teams. Yourepresentengineering at executive forums andyourea public face forDiligentsengineering brand in the technical community and talent market. You communicate and influence at every level acting as a bridge between engineering and the business articulating trade-offs risks and outcomes to senior leadership and aligning cross-functional teams around shared goals and timelines.

These are the essentialsyoullneed to get an interview:

Apply If You

• Have 15 years in software engineering including 5 years leading large global engineering organizations through Directors and managers

• Have owned business outcomes for an engineering organization accountable not just for delivery but for reliability security and overall performance

• Partner as an equal with Product Management to shape vision roadmap and priorities and collaborate closely with UX Security Data and Customer teams

• Have led engineering for enterprise SaaS products at significant scale

• Drive execution with rigor delivering production-grade systems balancing speed with security privacy and compliance and prioritizing across multiple concurrent initiatives

• Bring a bias for action and thrive in fast-moving ambiguous environments staying focused on measurable business impact

• Are deeply fluent in modern software engineering: cloud-native architecture platform engineering microservices and API-first design DevOps data platforms and AI/ML

• Have the technical credibility to earn the trust of senior engineers engaging in key architecture and technical decisions and challenging constructively

• Champion AI-native ways of working witha track recordof AI adoption and large-scale technology modernization

• Bringa track recordof operational excellence and reliability engineering (SLOs incident management quality security) across always-on services

• Design organizations for scale across regions and plan workforce and budgets against delivery commitments

• Communicate and influence at executive level bridging engineering and the business and aligning diverse stakeholders around a shared strategy

• Hire coach and develop senior engineering leaders and experts and build diverse inclusive high-performing cultures

It would be great if you had these too butwellsupport you if youdont:

• Experience delivering software in a regulated or security-sensitive domain (GRC governance/risk/compliance fintech or other trust-critical enterprise software)

• Hands-on familiarity with modern AI platforms and agentic tooling (LLMs RAG agent frameworks MCP AI-assisted development)

• Experience leading distributed multi-region engineering teams

• Experience scaling engineering organizations through significant growth M&A integration or platform consolidation

This is one of the most consequential engineering leadership roles at how AI transforms governanceriskand compliance for more than a million users and build the organization that makes it real.

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About Us

Diligent is the AI leader in governance risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions helping more than 1 million users and 700000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk build greater resilience and make better decisions faster.

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What Diligent Offers You

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
• We care about our people.Diligent offers a flexible work environment global days of service comprehensive health benefits meeting free days generous time off policy and wellness programsto name a few
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City but we have office hubs in Washington D.C. Vancouver London Galway Budapest Munich Bengaluru Singapore and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team facilitate dialogue and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate smart and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future but who want to make the world a more sustainable equitable and better place.

Headquartered in New York Diligent has offices in Washington D.C. London Galway Budapest Vancouver Bengaluru Munich Singapore and Sydney. To foster strong collaboration and connection this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations you will be expected towork onsite at least 50% of the time.We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation teamwork and a strong sense of community.

Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race color religious creed sex national origin ancestry citizenship status pregnancy childbirth physical disability mental disability age military status protected veteran status marital status registered domestic partner or civil union status gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression) medical condition (including but not limited to cancer related or HIV/AIDS related) genetic information or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal state and local also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements. See alsoDiligentsEEO PolicyandUS EEOCs Know Your Rights. We are a drug free workplace.

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