VP, Engineering

LearnUpon is looking for a VP, Engineering to join our Leadership team in Dublin.

LearnUpon LMS helps organizations train their employees, partners, and customers. Businesses can manage, track, and achieve their unique learning goals — all through a single, powerful solution.

With offices in Dublin (our HQ), Belgrade, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Sydney, we are a global team with lots of diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences that puts our customers' experience at the heart of everything we do. Our culture fosters an open, collaborative and supportive environment where our accomplishments are celebrated and encouraged. We're always striving for the best solution (not the easy one). We’re proud of our success and we’re humble and hungry to achieve more. 

The successful candidate will lead our experienced international engineering teams based in Ireland and Serbia. As a key member of our Executive Team, the VP of Engineering reports into our co-founder and CTO. The VP of Engineering leads and is responsible for end-to-end engineering delivery, while also empowering and supporting our engineering teams to continuously improve in function and form. 

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading and growing engineering teams in a high paced scale up environment, with a focus on delivering quality solutions that meet and exceed customers’ expectations, while also mentoring and developing engineering teams in a supportive and collaborative team environment.

What will I be doing?

• Strategic and tactical leadership and responsibility for the delivery of the LearnUpon product and related technologies
• Collaborate with Product teams to ensure that Engineering requirements are aligned with product roadmaps that scale revenue market opportunities
• Lead distributed cross-functional teams including Product Engineering & Engineering Ops (incl. SRE/Devops)
• Work closely with Product, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to ensure alignment and execution on company-wide initiatives
• Recruit great engineers and managers in collaboration with LearnUpon’s talent teams and support their continued growth and development
• Build and lead a world class Engineering team that delivers great products while having fun working together

What skills do I need?

• Proven experience in leading engineering teams through significant growth phases, while continuing to deliver high-quality products built for scale and flexibility
• Excellent communication skills and a team player with an acute ability to inspire and lead by embracing a supportive leadership approach
• Proven experience in serving and maintaining large-scale web application solutions

• Comfortable researching technologies and having both architectural discussions with engineers and product strategy discussions with our Product team
• Identifying bottlenecks in the SDLC and fine tuning delivery processes is second nature to you
• Acute skill to digest and discuss issues/solutions with team members that may not be familiar with such terminology/technologies
• Strong ability to hire, develop, retain and engage top engineering talent
• Experience managing engineering budgets, resource allocation, and vendor relationships to maximize efficiency - with a track record of making build vs. buy decisions strategically to balance costs and innovation

Not required but considered a big plus

• Experience managing teams developing apps with Ruby/Rails/GoLang in an AWS environment
• LMS Engineering Experience and / or exposure to the LMS market

Benefits

• Competitive salary and company ESOP
• Employer contributed pension
• Private health insurance
• Structured learning environment
• 25 days annual leave + 1 annual company wellness day off
• Work in a fun and supportive environment with regular social events

What is the Hiring Process?

Applicants for the position can expect the following hiring process:

• Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a 30-minute call
• Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews, including a task
• Finally, candidates will have a short interview with our CEO. 
• Successful candidates will be contacted with an offer to join our team

LearnUpon is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, membership of the Traveller community, or any other legally protected status.

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