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Head of Engineering
Ninety
Role Description Ninety is at an inflection point: the product is evolving quickly, and the business is ready to level up how we take new capabilities to market. We’re opening a new Head of Engineering role for someone who can build repeatable systems and raise the bar for what “great” software engineering looks like in a lean, high-impact environment. - Define and execute the engineering strategy aligned to company objectives, product roadmap, and long-term platform scalability. - Lead the evolution of the company’s technology organization as it adapts to an increasingly AI-enabled product and operational future. - Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization. - Establish strong engineering operating principles grounded in agile development, iterative delivery, rapid feedback loops, and continuous improvement. - Drive execution excellence across planning, prioritization, delivery predictability, operational reliability, and technical quality. - Collaborate deeply with Product, Design, Stakeholders, and Executive Leadership to translate ambiguous business opportunities into executable strategies. - Create a culture that balances speed, innovation, customer impact, and long-term technical sustainability. - Own architecture evolution and technical decision-making, ensuring systems remain scalable, secure, resilient, and adaptable. - Lead adoption of AI technologies across both the product portfolio and internal engineering workflows where they create measurable leverage. - Develop engineering managers and technical leaders capable of scaling with the organization. - Establish metrics, processes, and organizational mechanisms that improve visibility, accountability, and execution consistency. - Ensure engineering practices support enterprise-grade security, compliance, reliability, and customer trust expectations. - Drive recruiting and organizational design strategies to attract and retain exceptional engineering talent. - Foster strong cross-functional collaboration while helping the organization operate effectively through rapid change and ambiguity. Qualifications - Proven experience leading and scaling engineering organizations within high-growth SaaS environments, ideally through Series B/C stages. - Demonstrated ability to lead organizations through periods of rapid growth, ambiguity, and organizational evolution. - Strong technical background with the ability to engage deeply in architecture, systems design, platform strategy, and engineering tradeoff discussions. - Experience incorporating AI/ML capabilities into products, platforms, workflows, or engineering operations. - Deep understanding of modern software development practices, cloud-native architectures, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and platform reliability. - Strong commitment to agile development principles, iterative/incremental execution, continuous delivery, and customer-centered product development. - Demonstrated success building high-performing engineering cultures that emphasize ownership, accountability, collaboration, and learning. - Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineering managers and senior technical leaders. - Ability to create structure and drive execution in environments where requirements and priorities may evolve rapidly. - Strong communication and executive alignment skills, including the ability to translate complex technical topics into business outcomes. - Experience balancing short-term execution needs with long-term architectural and organizational health. - Strong product and business orientation with a focus on measurable customer and company impact. - Experience establishing engineering processes, metrics, and operational mechanisms appropriate for scaling organizations. - High degree of adaptability, pragmatism, and comfort operating in fast-moving environments with incomplete information. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred; equivalent practical experience welcomed. Requirements - This won’t be a fit if you prefer highly structured environments with fully defined requirements, stable priorities, and long planning horizons before execution begins. - Separating engineering from product, business, or customer outcomes rather than operating as a deeply cross-functional partner. - Optimizing primarily for process, hierarchy, or organizational control over speed, adaptability, and pragmatic execution. - Maintaining legacy approaches without actively exploring how AI can transform products, engineering workflows, and organizational leverage. - Narrowly managing existing teams instead of building, evolving, and scaling organizations through ambiguity and change. - Perfection-driven delivery models that delay customer feedback rather than embracing iterative development, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
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