VP, Software Applications

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We are seeking an accomplished Vice President of Application Software to lead a global organization of over 200 engineers responsible for the design development and delivery of several world-class application software solutions. This executive will drive strategy and execution across the full application software lifecycle partnering closely with hardware product and business partner teams to deliver scalable secure and innovative solutions.

The VP will serve as a technical and organizational leader ensuring engineering excellence shaping modern architectures and scaling high-performing teams that deliver products with measurable customer and business impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the application software vision roadmap and architecture aligned to enterprise strategy and product portfolios.

• Technical Ownership: Drive architectural direction across cloud edge and device software ensuring seamless integration with hardware platforms.

• Product Development: Partner with product management UX and hardware engineering to translate customer needs into differentiated software solutions.

• Engineering Excellence: Champion modern software engineering practices CI/CD DevOps test automation observability and agile delivery at scale.

• Team Leadership: Lead mentor and scale a global engineering team of 200 engineers fostering a culture of innovation accountability and collaboration.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with hardware engineering business unit partners operations and customer support to ensure robust reliable and secure products.

• Talent Development: Attract retain and develop top software and hardware-aware engineering talent; build strong succession pipelines for leadership.

• Governance & Quality: Establish and enforce best practices in software security compliance and reliability.

• Metrics & Outcomes: Define and deliver on KPIs around productivity velocity quality uptime customer satisfaction and financial impact.

Required Qualifications

• 15 years of progressive software engineering leadership experience with at least 7 years in executive leadership roles.

• Proven success leading large-scale engineering teams (200 engineers) in a Fortune 500 or comparable global enterprise environment.

• Deep technical expertise in application software development with strong knowledge of cloud services distributed systems APIs and data platforms.

• Strong grounding in hardware/software integration device drivers embedded systems or similar cross-domain experience.

• Demonstrated architectural leadership with modern technology stacks programming frameworks and cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP).

• Track record of delivering customer-facing software products at scale balancing speed quality and cost.

• Exceptional organizational communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence at C-suite and board levels.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related technical discipline; advanced degree (MS/MBA/PhD) preferred.

Desired Attributes

• Visionary leader who can define long-term technology strategy while executing on near-term goals.

• Strong talent magnet with ability to recruit retain and inspire world-class engineering teams.

• Analytical data-driven decision maker who uses metrics and business impact to guide engineering investments.

• Collaborative executive who thrives in matrixed cross-functional environments.

• Passion for innovation at the intersection of hardware and software with customer-first mindset.

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies including;
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

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