Director of Engineering at GovPilot
United States
<meta><h3 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:21pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Position:</span></h3><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Y</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">GovPilot is a GovTech company that is growing rapidly and leverages AI heavily in order to meet aggressive roadmap targets with high quality. We are looking for a dynamic leader that understands how to match talent and capacity with business problems, and deliver high quality software at the pace that AI now enables.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">You are the operational counterweight to a VP of Engineering who stays deliberately hands-on in architecture and MVP development. That split only works if the operational half is held by someone senior enough to run it without escalation.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">You will need real technical depth. You cannot arbitrate a dependency conflict, judge a delivery risk, or defend a staffing trade-off without understanding the systems underneath it. What you will not need is to be the most senior technical voice in the room.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">We are an AI-native engineering organization. Governing and scaling that practice is a core responsibility of this role, not a side project.</span></p><h3 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:21pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:14px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What You Will Own:</span></h3><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Delivery across three product lines.</strong></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> End-to-end visibility and accountability: roadmap tracking, release coordination, cross-team dependencies, and risk escalation. One source of truth leadership can read without a translator. A disciplined incident and on-call program across time zones, with tracked postmortem follow-through.</span></li><li style="--listitem-marker-color:#000000;font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Engineering metrics.</strong></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Define and instrument the KPIs that drive decisions: cycle time, lead time for changes, deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR, escaped defects, uptime against SLOs, and team health. Automate the reporting so it does not live in your head. Turn signal into a narrative leadership can act on, including what decision is needed and by when. </span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Partnership with Product.</strong></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Build a genuine peer relationship with the Director of Product. Own the capacity model that makes roadmap commitments credible, and surface trade-offs at the point of commitment rather than at the deadline.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Staffing and capacity planning.</strong></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Allocation and coverage across all three lines, with a repeatable framework rather than case-by-case negotiation. Partner with Product and Finance on headcount forecasting. Confirm projects are fully staffed before work begins, and stop the ones that are not.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">People leadership.</strong></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Directly manage and develop engineering managers and leads. Own hiring, onboarding, and performance management. Build a management layer that operates consistently across geographies.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">AI-native engineering.</strong></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Drive adoption of agentic coding tools. Set the standard for where AI belongs in planning, implementation, and review, and where human review stays mandatory. Own the governance: code provenance, security review, and IP and data handling. Report measured delivery impact, not activity.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">AI ROI</strong></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">. Partner with the executive AI sponsor to quantify the returns of AI-assisted development. Own the engineering evidence by balancing fully loaded costs against delivery outcomes like cycle time and quality, and establish governance for code provenance, human review boundaries, and data handling.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What You Bring:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">10 or more years in software engineering, including 3 or more at Director level or senior engineering management.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Delivery ownership across multiple concurrent products, not one team against one roadmap.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Proven leadership of distributed global teams, including managing managers.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Real technical depth. You have shipped software and can evaluate system design and technical risk on your own.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Rigorous program and operations management. You leave systems behind that outlast you.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hands-on GitHub experience, including Projects, Actions, and workflow design. Migration leadership strongly preferred.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Working fluency with AI coding tools and a clear point of view on how they change review practices and quality control.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Fluency in engineering metrics: what to instrument, what it indicates, and how to keep the program from being gamed.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Executive communication. You translate engineering execution into business outcomes.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px 12pt;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Track record of a real peer partnership with a Director or Head of Product.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Preferred:</strong></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Scale-up growth experience. Blended FTE and contractor staffing models. Govtech space familiarity. Background in multiple domains.</span></p><h3 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:21pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">How Success Is Measured:</span></h3><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Delivery predictability against forecast. Movement in cycle time, deployment frequency, and change failure rate. Uptime against SLOs and incident response times. Projects fully staffed at kickoff. Retention and manager effectiveness across geographies. Returns measured in shipped work, cycle time, and quality rather than seats used or code generated. VP of Engineering time returned to architecture and MVP work.</span></p><h3 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:21pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:4pt;padding-left:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Practicals:</span></h3><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">You'll report to: Vice President of Engineering & Product</span></li><li style="margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Location: Anywhere in the USA</span></li><li style="margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Start date: As soon as possible</span></li></ul><h3 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:21pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">How to Apply:</span></h3><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">If you are passionate about technology and eager to work on a dynamic team, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your resume and cover letter today! </span></p><h3 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:21pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:4pt;padding-left:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Application Process:</span></h3><ol data-pattern="deciLoAlphaLoRom" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:decimal;"><li style="margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Screening call with a recruiter</span></li><li style="margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Technical Interview</span></li><li style="margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Team Interviews</span></li><li style="margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Final Interview with GovPIlot CEO</span></li></ol><h3 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:21pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:4pt;padding-left:0px;"><span style="background-color:initial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Equal Opportunity Employer:</span></h3><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">GovPilot is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. It's important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and by providing this data, if you choose to, it will help us to stay accountable. </span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Join us in creating amazing technology solutions that make a difference. Apply today!</strong></b></p>
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