VP Engineering

Job type
Location
Auckland
Salary
NZD160000 - NZD220000 per annum, Benefits: Flexibility & bonus
Reference
BH-12631
The opportunity:

Rarely do you see a blend of edgy tech, a team bound by purpose to help people in an industry primed for explosive growth. This team focus on the harnessing lasers to optimise fibreoptics and cloud servers powering the internet.  Think of all of the millions of transceivers that exist in telco networks and datacentres globally.  This is the market with clients that include Intel, Facebook, Google and Cisco and NASA using their products.  The role of VP Engineering is a powerful one for this product development business. The opportunity for an effective, contemporary hardware (critical) and software engineering leader to bring new leadership to a business that has already brought to market a product portfolio currently worth $50M in revenue. Strong technical thinking is required to bolster the NPD, delivery processes and look for opportunities to marry market demands with tech advancements. This role will be able to understand the technology whilst building an effective team, catering to the changing needs for the product suite. Working with the founders, engineering and design, you'll have the chance to grow your career like no other time and be part of one of New Zealand's established technology stars.

Company profile:

International growth. A star-power list of international tech giants clamoring for partnerships and advocate their services. A growing number of businesses switch on to the power of this tech as the demand for data and internet speed increase.  This homegrown product vendor is the newest business pushing the envelope in the application of new IP advancements.  The product suite includes a number of components: devices, apps, web platforms and Data advancements. This product portfolio offers opportunities for NPD, RFM and brand new thinking for new product prototypes.

Hardware & Software Engineering Leadership:

The journey of growth and change this business has been on has been radical. And it's not slowing down. A leadership role has emerged to lead and manage the hardware and software engineering teams within the business.

The role breaks down into four core components:
  • Technology roadmap: vision and leadership; commercial to technical; build and run
  • People leadership: growth and management of your new team
  • Delivery leadership: predictable milestones and financial acumen
  • Engineering leadership: Go to woah, internal teams/stakeholders and partners, manufacturing and suppliers
The fit:

To be able to fulfill this role you will be driven by the opportunity to influence the direction of the hardware and software engineering roadmap for a scaling business. You’ll celebrate the opportunity to win the hearts and minds of your team and grow them, igniting a sense of purpose for the company’s vision. Emerging from a technical business or background in a technology vendor, you will have rolled out successful, scalable delivery and quality systems and owned the whole hardware (and software possibly) product development sphere. You’ll be confident building and executing against a roadmap and vision, contributing to strategy. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer you'll marry hardware, software, delivery and commercial leadership in the fast-paced world of contemporary product development.

For more information please contact Julian to discuss this opportunity on julian@potentia.co.nz or apply now.

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