VP, Product & Engineering, Coda, FP&A

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Netherlands, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Oversee the Product & Engineering organization for Coda and FP&A from start to finish, including team management, architecture, delivery, and roadmap.

• Report directly to the General Manager of Coda & FP&A.

• Collaborate with the General Manager to define and implement the long-term business strategy.

• Convert business priorities into actionable product, technology, and investment plans.

• Establish engineering strategy and technical direction for the Coda and FP&A codebases, primarily using Java, C, and TypeScript.

• Drive platform modernization while ensuring service stability and maintaining customer confidence.

• Formulate product strategy and roadmap based on customer insights, market opportunities, and commercial objectives.

• Champion strategic customer relationships, key opportunities, and critical business escalations.

• Work in partnership with Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Finance on customer and commercial results.

• Direct portfolio investment decisions across customer requirements, commercial potential, innovation, modernization, resilience, and technical debt.

• Enhance delivery speed and agility while ensuring enterprise-level reliability.

• Lead, mentor, and foster the development of product and engineering teams comprising around 70 individuals.

• Fortify management layers, hiring strategies, and career progression paths.

• Construct succession and talent plans while developing scalable organizational structures and operational models.

• Define and advocate for an AI strategy within the product and engineering department.

• Ensure operational excellence in areas like uptime, security, performance, and quality.

• Establish sprint cadence, DORA metrics, quality gates, and OKRs.

• Utilize customer, product, engineering, and operational data to guide priorities and investment choices.

• Provide transparent reporting on portfolio performance, delivery, platform health, and associated risks.

• Represent Coda and FP&A in company-wide discussions on product and technical leadership as well as in Unit4 executive forums.

• Engage with key customers regarding product and architectural matters and escalations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in engineering leadership roles.

• At least 5 years of experience managing engineering managers or multiple teams.

• Demonstrated capability in owning both product and engineering aspects.

• Experience in guiding a complex, global Product & Engineering organization through periods of growth, modernization, and organizational change is strongly preferred.

• Required hands-on experience with financial applications.

• Startup experience, or equivalent agility and speed within a larger organization.

• Strong practical proficiency in Java, C, and TypeScript, or similar programming languages.

• Adeptness in making and justifying architecture and technical trade-off decisions.

• Experience in balancing technical debt and maintenance with innovation while safeguarding platform stability.

• Proven hands-on experience applying AI to software engineering at a team scale with measurable results.

• Well-informed perspective on how AI will transform engineering and product development.

• Strong product instincts, with the ability to translate customer and market signals into a roadmap aligned with growth and revenue.

• Ability to connect product and technology strategies to measurable customer, commercial, and business outcomes.

• Focus on enterprise customers, including direct interactions with major accounts, escalations, and advisory contributions.

• Proven leadership skills in hiring, developing, and retaining product and engineering talent.

• Experience in building and coaching leadership teams, enhancing succession planning, and creating scalable operating models.

• Excellent communication abilities across technical, business, customer, and commercial audiences.

• Capability to provide executive recommendations, articulate trade-offs, and influence effectively.

• Background checks/security clearance may be necessary for customer projects and access to sensitive customer data.

• Disclosure of the right to work, personal identification, and work history may be required in accordance with applicable local laws.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible Leave Paid Time Off policy.

• Opportunities for remote work.

• Global Wellbeing Days.

• Opportunities for professional growth.

• Tools and guidance available to support professional development and optimal performance.

• Collaborate with talented colleagues, role models, and mentors.

• Involvement in sustainability initiatives through the Environmental, Social, and Governance strategy and Act4Good program.

• A safe and inclusive work environment.

• Access to Employee Resource Groups available to all.

• Potential for security clearance/background check conducted in accordance with local privacy laws.