Gravitate

• Drive the execution of defined product strategies, ensuring all development aligns with the overarching product vision. • Act as a secondary point of contact for customers, facilitating high-level communication and ensuring their needs are reflected in product delivery. • Evangelize product releases to customers and internal support/delivery teams. • Ensure product releases achieve intended outcomes and features effectively meet customer needs. • Translate roadmap features into well-defined requirements, including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria. • Actively mitigate roadblocks that might impact the on-time completion of release or sprint goals. • Work closely with scrum and development teams to ensure all development objectives are met. • Lead the product functionality design process based on a deep understanding of user and client needs. • Lead product demos for internal and external audiences, while also creating and maintaining product documentation.

• Lead complex implementation projects • Help clients meet their fuel pricing and logistics optimization goals • Mentor and lead newer consultants • Analyze product design and provide consulting support • Translate specific objectives into actionable tasks

• Own and run your team’s rituals — standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming — keeping them tight, purposeful, and actually useful • Partner with your product owner to manage scope, priorities, and trade-offs; translate business context into what the team needs to know to do good work. • Remove blockers for your engineers — whether that’s a dependency, a design ambiguity, or a process that’s getting in the way • Participate in and facilitate technical design reviews; ensure designs meet quality standards and reflect product and business context from your domain • Stay code-active at a senior level: reviewing PRs, contributing to production code, and maintaining the technical credibility to have real conversations with your team • Lead incident triage and response for your product area; own retrospectives that actually improve things • Drive monitoring, observability, and performance health in your team’s product area • Deliver clear, timely feedback to every engineer on your team; conduct regular 1:1s focused on growth, blockers, and wellbeing • Hire well for your team — partner with recruiting, define the bar, and own the process from screen to close • Manage performance proactively — recognize and reward strong contributors; address underperformance directly and constructively • Communicate team status, risks, and blockers upward to engineering leadership on a regular cadence

• Own and evolve our Developer Experience, building self-service capabilities • Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on GCP using Kubernetes and other managed services • Manage and improve our CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD • Lead our Infrastructure as Code practice using Terraform • Drive improvements in our site reliability across our products • Enforce and evolve our security posture across cloud environments • Reduce operational toil by identifying and automating repetitive infrastructure and deployment tasks • Partner with product engineering teams to understand their infrastructure needs and translate them into platform capabilities

• Lead complex implementation projects for clients in fuel pricing and logistics optimization • Mentor and lead newer consultants to maintain high delivery standards • Build relationships with clients and communicate effectively between business and technical groups

• Analyze product implementations and provide technical design recommendations • Develop data integrations partnering with functional consultants • Create technical solutions for system implementations, upgrades, and enhancements • Build and maintain technical design documents • Participate in testing, documentation, and retrospective sessions • Mentor and support junior consultants

About Gravitate: Gravitate is an AI-driven software company that serves the refined fuels industry. We provide software solutions to refiners, wholesalers, fuel retailers and transportation companies. The market demand for our solutions has been significant and we are growing rapidly.  We are looking for a driven, hungry and talented professional to join our team. In just five years, Gravitate has become the trusted platform for many of the sector’s largest players. Today, 7 of the top 15 fuel retailers and 50% of the largest refiners use Gravitate to power sourcing, pricing, and logistics. The company’s technology already touches 70% of U.S. refining volume, and its products capture value on every gallon moved. With over 250 billion gallons traded annually, the growth opportunity is virtually unlimited. Gravitate was founded in 2020 and raised a significant growth investment from Falfurrias Management Partners in 2024, positioning the company to displace entrenched incumbents and become the category-defining platform for refined fuel logistics. The Vice President of Engineering will be central to this next phase, scaling the organization from $20M ARR to $50M+ ARR and building the foundation for global market leadership. Reporting to the CEO, this leader will grow and mature the engineering function, architect systems for scale, drive AI- and analytics-driven innovation, and foster a cohesive, high-performance culture. You’re an Ideal Candidate if: Scaled a high-performing engineering organization with strong processes and a collaborative culture that attracts and inspires top talent Architect flexible, enterprise-grade systems that support large customers while maintaining a reliable core platform Lead AI- and analytics-driven solutions in autonomous supply, dispatch, and logistics Partner with the CEO and product leadership to align engineering with business priorities The Non-Negotiables Proven success scaling engineering teams in high-growth B2B SaaS environments Experience growing organizations from $20M to $50M+ ARR Proven depth in AI and analytics, with background in simulation models or supply chain/logistics preferred Strength in architecting enterprise-grade systems balancing flexibility and reliability Demonstrated track record of driving innovation in products, processes, or technology adoption Recognized leader in recruiting, developing, and retaining top engineering talent Deep understanding of how culture and team dynamics create exceptional teams Hands-on, pragmatic, able to balance strategy with execution Growth-minded with grit, ownership, and resilience Clear, direct communicator who builds trust with executives and teams Credible and inspiring technology leader, internally and externally Energized by disrupting a traditional industry and scaling a category-defining platform About the Gravitate team: To understand who our people are, you should first understand what they’re not: replaceable. Each member of the team is chosen carefully and with intention. We believe that finding the right fit is more important than a laundry list of credentials – and that we are people first, and titles second. Because we hire the Gravitate way, our team is certainly one of a kind. We’ve brought together incredible talent that regularly collaborates to create clean, fresh solutions. That effort has led to remarkable opportunities, including work with many Fortune 100 clients. We’ve found that the winning combination of exciting achievements, trust in one another and open communication lays the groundwork for long-lasting, successful careers. That, and the fact that we clap for each other at every opportunity. Problem solvers, go-getters and charge-takers -  we (really) want to hear from you.