The Vice President of Product Engineering is a strategic, leadership role responsible for managing and driving the success of the product engineering organization. This role oversees development initiatives across itel’s diverse platforms, collaborates in setting development strategies and practices aligned with business outcomes, and partners closely with the CPO and peers to foster a strong team culture, enabling individuals to perform at their best.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Collaborates with the VP of Product and VP of Enterprise Architect to execute the product strategy and roadmap, ensuring successful initiative delivery and maintaining team momentum
Understands market challenges and works with teams to leverage technology in solving problems, guiding direction and empowering teams to make tactical decisions during development
Works closely with engineering team leads to exchange ideas and provide guidance, while allowing for creative autonomy in design strategies. The VP is responsible for questioning and redirecting ineffective decisions, holding leads accountable for their choices, and ultimately owning the overall design outcomes
Mentors engineering teams across all levels, from leads to individual contributors, understanding their goals and helping to expand their current knowledge and skillsets
Ensures SDLC is being adhered to by teams and that leadership understands challenges/feedback coming with recommendations towards goal of maturing processes to ensure they are a benefit, not a burden
Drives thought leadership around engineering methodologies, provides context on how these align with product and business objectives
Institute system metrics that provide regular updates on engineering team velocity, including outcomes, roadblocks, success needs, and other key metrics to stakeholders
Leads cross-organizational planning efforts, defining how product roadmaps will be executed and aligning engineering teams on strategic direction and required success criteria
Builds expertise and contributes value around the property-insurance marketplace, the ecosystem players and how itel products solve problems for our insurance carrier customers.
Works effectively with Product, Design, and leadership to successfully execute product initiatives and align engineering efforts appropriately
Stays current with engineering trends and opportunities, leverages to accomplish business goals
Ensures the successful development of stable solutions to users, market-facing and internal, as well as adherence to Agile and continuous delivery methods
Transparently manages expectations with stakeholders, including the executive leadership team.
Proactively identifies and resolves potential platform and scalability risks, ensuring that engineering solutions are scalable and resilient

ROLE QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

REQUIRED

At least 10 years of experience in software development, with a proven track record of successfully managing engineering teams that design, build, and mature software products
Expertise with Microsoft development tools and frameworks including Visual Studio, .NET, Azure, SQL
Experience with Agile methodologies and a demonstrated history of success in an SDLC-driven environment
Proven ability to coach and develop individuals at various levels of engineering experience, from junior to senior talent
Strong self-awareness with a commitment to continuous personal and professional growth.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, driven by natural curiosity and a desire to explore new solutions
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex ideas to diverse audiences
Proven collaboration and interpersonal skills, able to build relationships and work effectively across teams and departments
Deep understanding of technology best practices and behaviors that ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions meeting organizational needs
Execution-focused mindset, with a clear emphasis on creating sustained business value and delivering measurable returns on investment
An ambition to win. While itel is a fun, collaborative space; the right individual is excited about increasing revenue, surpassing business goals and showcasing to their team and the organization at large the excitement that comes with being a highly function, successful team

PREFERRED

Background in crafting data-oriented products
Salesforce development experience
MBA

KEY COMPETENCIES

Strategic Orientation: ability to contribute to the overall strategy, culture and financial success of the company with specific expertise in strategic planning and execution
Leadership: ability to handle tasks and work independently and intentionally develop and utilize positive leadership traits
Creative Thinking: ability to demonstrate conceptual creative thinking, taking an idea and visualize/describe the opportunity, then recognize the potential fit with culture and product lines
Integrity and Ethics: ability to gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, authenticity, taking responsibility for own actions, and telling the truth
Accountability: ability to act with a clear sense of ownership; takes personal responsibility for decisions, actions, deliverables, and failures; establishes clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results; embraces experimentation, creativity, and positive change
Cultural Competence: ability to understand and respect values, attitudes, beliefs, and mores of the member that differ across cultures, and to consider and respond appropriately to these differences in planning, implementing, and evaluating health programs and interventions

All members of the itel family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability