Vice President, Engineering at Pindrop

United States

$250k - $295k

Who We Are Pindrop is the Real Human + Right Human® Identity Trust Platform for the AI era. As AI-driven fraud and deepfakes erode trust in digital communication, Pindrop delivers continuous identity verification and deepfake detection across voice, video, and digital interactions in real time. Enterprises rely on Pindrop to secure billions of high-risk customer interactions each year, including top U.S. banks, as well as leading insurers and healthcare providers. Powered by models trained on more than 1.5 billion real-world interactions annually and protected by 300+ patents, Pindrop restores trust while reducing fraud, lowering operational costs, and improving customer experience. Recognized by TIME as one of the Top 10 Most Influential Software Companies of 2026 and by Inc. for Best in Business for Innovation, Pindrop is backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, and CapitalG. What you’ll do As the Vice President of Engineering, you will serve as the senior-most engineering leader for Pindrop's core platforms and cross-product capabilities. You will be the technical visionary behind our multi-cloud platform and real-time risk engine, owning the strategy, roadmap, and execution for systems that protect the world's largest enterprises. Be the technical visionary behind Pindrop’s multi-cloud platform across AWS and GCP, and Pindrop’s cross-product machine learning capabilities. Shape the craft, engineering culture, engineering process, and engineering talent hiring and development across all product teams. Own Pindrop’s core platform that supports both Pindrop Passport and Protect, including its roadmap, engineering delivery, process execution, quality, and timing. Collaborate closely with the Chief Architect on technical vision, adapting principles to practices and techniques to achieve evolve-able architectures. Build and foster engineering talent across the entire organization, enhancing and evolving the structure of career growth, onboarding, and retention. Lay out processes to reduce or eliminate downtime, improve scalability and reliability, and implement a problem management process with a cohesive observability strategy. Put in controls and processes to monitor and reduce cloud and data costs on an ongoing basis. Who you are Strategically Minded: You shape long-term engineering strategy by identifying emerging opportunities and risks early, aligning multiple global teams around a cohesive direction. Resilient Leader: You maintain execution across hiring and delivery despite ambiguity or rapid change, modeling calm, decisive leadership that enables teams to perform under pressure. Relationship-Driven: You act as a trusted global engineering partner who builds strong relationships with executives and cross-functional leaders to accelerate business outcomes. AI-Fluent: You anticipate how advances in AI will impact engineering productivity and platform architecture, guiding teams to responsibly integrate AI-enabled capabilities at scale. Executive Presence: You bring a positive attitude with a leadership and ownership mindset, instilling confidence and trust in high-performing leaders. Your skill-set Must-haves: Minimum 12+ years of relevant experience building and supporting application platforms and/or infrastructure with extensive and current experience as a people leader. Proven experience leading a large technology organization of 30 or more individuals with director-level reports. Demonstrated ability to build, scale, and structure technology organizations in growth-phase companies. Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and data technologies on AWS and/or GCP, with multi-cloud deployment experience. Nice-to-haves: Understanding of data science infrastructure, machine learning, and Generative AI implementation. Experience with network and application security, or experience developing and creating an enterprise security program/team. Ability to structure team topologies, interactions, and value streams for high efficiency using lean principles. Clear understanding of the value of CI/CD, best practices, and methods to apply it at scale. What’s in it for you In an era where synthetic media, fraud, and identity manipulation are accelerating, we ensure that every interaction involves the real human and the right human. Our work directly protects financial institutions, enterprises, and consumers from fraud, deception, and identity compromise. You will wake up every day knowing your work has real-world impact. You will work alongside some of the best technical minds in security, AI, and voice intelligence. We are intense about excellence, but we are also a team that enjoys the journey. If you want to build something that matters—and be proud of the company you help shape—this is that opportunity. What we offer As a part of Pindrop, you’ll have a direct impact on our growing list of products and the future of security in the voice-driven economy. We hire great people and take care of them. Here’s a snapshot of the benefits we offer: Competitive compensation package, including RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) for all employees, so everyone shares in our long-term success. Remote-first environment - giving you flexibility and autonomy in how you structure your day. While we work flexibly, we prioritize meaningful in-person moments through regular team on-sites, company-wide events, and intentional gatherings that foster connection, collaboration, and shared success. Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) Generous health and welfare plans to choose from - including one employer-paid “employee-only” plan! Best-in-class Health Savings Account (HSA) employer contribution Low-cost vision and dental plans for you and your family, providing comprehensive coverage and peace of mind. Paid Parental Leave - Including birth, adoptive & foster parents One year of diaper delivery for your newest addition to the family! It’s our way of welcoming new Pindroplets to the family! Recurring monthly phone and internet allowance to help cover essential connectivity costs and support flexible work. Enhanced fertility and GLP-1 benefits to support family-building journeys and personalized health needs. Annual Learning & Development stipend to support your professional growth, skill-building, certifications, and continued education. Please note that the base pay range is a general guideline only. Pindrop considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, a candidate's work experience, education/training, and key skills, as well as market and business considerations, when extending an offer. US Base Pay Range $250,000—$295,000 USD Not sure if this is you? We want a diverse, global team, with a broad range of experience and perspectives. If this job sounds great, but you’re not sure if you qualify, apply anyway! We carefully consider every application and will either move forward with you, find another team that might be a better fit, keep in touch for future opportunities, or thank you for your time. AI - A Transformative Force At Pindrop, we view artificial intelligence as a transformative force that, when harnessed responsibly, can unlock unprecedented value for our customers, partners and society and enable and empower us to continue to deliver cutting-edge technology to combat fraud and unblur the lines between what it means to be human versus machine. Pindrop may use AI tools to help prioritize job applications for human review. The AI tool may analyze your work experience and skills to assess fit for the role, but does not consider your name or contact details. Applications with the strongest match to job requirements are prioritized for human review; not all applications may be individually reviewed. Pindrop is an Equal Opportunity Employer Here at Pindrop, it is our mission to create and maintain a diverse and inclusive work environment. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, disability, marital and/or veteran status.