VP, Engineering

Join Affinity as we redefine how professionals manage and leverage their networks, transforming relationships into meaningful opportunities. You'll be part of a team focused on improving our core product and platform, making relationship intelligence indispensable through advanced data analytics. With our growing user base and expansion into new markets, we're more committed than ever to delivering relationship intelligence to professionals everywhere.

If you want to know about the requirements for this role, read on for all the relevant information.

Your role and impact :

As the VP of Engineering at Affinity, you will report to the CTO and lead the development of our innovative CRM product and platform. Your strategic vision will ensure we build strong foundations that drive outstanding customer outcomes and promote cross-functional collaboration. Implementing the Product Operating Model is a top priority for our R&D team, and your leadership will be vital in facilitating and championing this change. You'll also direct our technical and architectural roadmap, ensuring peak performance and user experience through our suite of applications.

Key responsibilities :

• Shape Product Roadmap : Collaborate with product and design leaders to establish a compelling future vision for our product, crafting a strategic roadmap that seamlessly integrates product, design, and engineering.
• Lead Engineering Execution : Ensure quality software and a delightful user experience through continuous, iterative development practices while refining our overall development approach and delivery processes.
• Grow and Scale the Team : Shape the team's composition, specify hiring needs, and onboard engineers whose diverse technical abilities and soft skills contribute to well-rounded, cohesive teams.
• Develop Teams : Guide and develop a high-performing team through leadership, coaching, and mentoring, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement while ensuring inclusive development opportunities for all team members.
• Craft Technical Strategy : Develop a technical strategy and roadmap aligned with Affinity's business and product needs, focusing on delivering high quality, great usability, and fast performance across applications and APIs.
• Manage Technical Debt : Lead company-wide prioritization of improvements to code quality, systems, and engineering processes.
• Drive Strategic Decisions : Navigate complex discussions and drive decisions aligned with business context, product, architecture, design philosophies, and strategies.
• Develop and Manage Department KPIs : Establish and monitor key performance indicators to ensure department goals are met.

Qualifications

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Affinity, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't perfectly align with the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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Tech stack

Our platform is built with React and TypeScript on the front end, and with Ruby and PostgreSQL on the back end. Our infrastructure is hosted by AWS and runs on Kubernetes.

What you'll enjoy at Affinity :

Please note that the role compensation details below reflect the base salary only and do not include any equity or benefits. This represents the salary range that Affinity believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting, that it will pay for the posted job

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $215,000 to $310,000 USD. Within the range, individual pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant.

About Affinity

With more than 3,000 customers worldwide and backed by some of Silicon Valley's best firms, Affinity has raised $120M to empower dealmakers to find, manage, and close more deals. Our Relationship Intelligence platform uses the wealth of data exhaust from trillions of interactions between Investment Bankers, Venture Capitalists, Consultants, and other strategic dealmakers to deliver automated relationship insights that drive over 450,000 deals every month. We are proud to have received Inc. and Fortune Best Workplaces awards as well as to be Great Places to Work certified for the last 5 years running. Join us on our mission to make it possible for anyone to cultivate and fully harness their network to succeed.

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Salary : $215,000 - $310,000