VP of Engineering (Europe Remote)

Sherpany is a mission-led company dedicated to helping create a world where teams lead together and every meeting counts with its state of the art meeting management tool. Over 300 European companies and 12,000 decision-makers are already using Sherpany with the aim of making their business relevant meetings more productive and thereby increasing corporate success. According to a jury of international investors, Sherpany is one of the best scale-ups in Switzerland with the potential to become a unicorn. Sherpany employs over 150 people in six locations in Europe and remotely in 19 countries around the world.

In this role you will be part of our product team working in four fully autonomous cross-functional squads with people from all around the world - from Indonesia, through Europe to the U.S.A.

Tasks

Your mission:

You will lead the engineering and DevOps team leaders and be responsible for 40 professionals in the product team. You are the deputy of the CPO and part of the product leadership triad together with the Product Design Lead. Your main goal is to strengthen the engineering team by attracting new talents and working with team leaders to retain talents and have a happy, fully staffed and performant team. You establish effective internal development, release and operations processes, ensure compliance with these and continuously improve them so that we can uphold our quality, security and worldclass uptime for our customers at all times. Furthermore, you work closely with the CPO, Product Design Lead, code-crafting chapter heads and DevOps to define OKRs and prioritize projects that move the company forward.

Requirements

What we will love about you...

• you have several years of experience working in a fast-paced Tech environment. Nice to have experience in B2B and SaaS.
• you understand our tech stack (React, Python/Django, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes)
• you have great hiring skills and know how to build high-performing teams who can turn strategies into results
• you have sound knowledge of agile methodologies as well as in project and stakeholder management
• you are comfortable interacting with enterprise clients

Benefits

How you can imagine us:

You are part of a company with people working from everywhere in the world, in which you can take lot of responsibility and your ideas are always welcome

• In order to maintain your work-life balance we offer flexible working hours, home office and/or remote-working
• Your personal and professional development is important to us which is why we offer financial support for further education, trainings etc.
• We work with modern Apple products; every employee receives an own MacBook
• Last but not least: Our corporate culture means a lot to us, which is why we organize regular team events and cultivate a value-centric cooperation

Our recruiting process:

1. Send your online application
2. First interview with our recruiter
3. Interview with Line Manager and People Business Partner
4. Final interview: Get to know the team and senior engineers (half-day, remote)
5. Offer