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Vice President, EngineeringCerebras • Menlo Park, CA, United States
Vice President, Engineering

Vice President, Engineering

Cerebras • Menlo Park, CA, United States
6 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

CaptivateIQ is transforming the way companies plan, manage, and optimize sales performance. We started by revolutionizing incentive compensation management, and now we're expanding our platform to solve broader sales planning challenges. Recognized by industry analysts like Forrester and G2 and backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia, ICONIQ and Accel, we empower high-growth companies like Netflix, Figma and Stripe with the flexibility and insights needed to drive revenue performance.

Join a talented, fast-growing team committed to solving some of the most complex and impactful problems in sales performance management.

About this Role

We’re seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead CaptivateIQ’s engineering organization through this next phase of growth. Reporting directly to the SVP of R&D, this role is responsible for scaling execution, building world-class teams, and operationalizing engineering in support of product, platform, and enterprise goals.

This is a key executive role for a strong operator and people leader who excels at balancing rapid iteration with foundational investment, technical strategy with organizational design, and cross-functional alignment with engineering excellence.

You’ll be the connective tissue between vision and delivery—helping scale a product-driven culture with a bias for action.

Strategic Leadership & Execution

  • Translate company strategy into scalable engineering plans and team structures
  • Balance short-term delivery with long-term platform and infrastructure investments
  • Drive technical decision-making that supports AI and data initiatives

Organizational Design & People Leadership

  • Scale a high-performing org across product, platform, and AI domains
  • Manage and mentor engineering leaders and managers; build a deep bench
  • Shape and uphold a culture of ownership, autonomy, velocity, and inclusion
  • Cross-Functional & Executive Partnership

  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Finance, Customer Experience, Sales, and Marketing to align engineering with GTM and customer success
  • Serve as a credible partner to enterprise customers, both pre- and post-sale
  • Contribute to executive strategy, budgeting, planning, and headcount forecasting
  • Innovation & Delivery

  • Support rapid 0→1 product iteration while maintaining quality and learning velocity
  • Lead platform efforts that enable multiple products to scale on shared infrastructure
  • Work closely with the SVP and co-founders to operationalize technical vision and ensure execution excellence
  • Requirements

  • 10+ years of engineering leadership in high-growth SaaS environments
  • Proven success scaling product and platform engineering orgs (100+ engineers)
  • Experience leading both 0→1 and scaling phases of product development
  • Strong track record managing directors and building diverse, empowered, distributed teams
  • Clear communicator and collaborator across product, GTM, and executive functions
  • High technical fluency—can challenge and support platform and AI discussions
  • Benefits

  • (US-ONLY) 100% of medical, dental, and vision covered including 75% for dependents
  • Flexible vacation days and quarterly mental health days so you can recharge
  • (US-ONLY) 401k plan to participate in and save towards the future
  • Newest Apple products to help you do your best work
  • Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support and celebrate the shared identities and life experiences of communities within CaptivateIQ. ERGs directly support our company-wide DEI goals as a space for developing and retaining diverse talent
  • Notice to Prospective Candidates

  • Only emails from @captivateiq.com should be trusted.
  • We are aware of active recruitment scams using the CaptivateIQ name, in which individuals pose as our recruiters and post fake remote job openings and make fake job offers on the Internet. Please note, we will never do the following : Attempt to correspond with a candidate using a free web-based account, such as an email address that ends in @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, etc.
  • Make an offer of employment without conducting multiple rounds of interviews face-to-face using secure video-conferencing technology.
  • Ask candidates to cash checks to buy equipment on behalf of CaptivateIQ.
  • Ask candidates to make a payment in order to be considered for a position.
  • Make early requests for candidates' personal information such as date of birth, passport details, credit card numbers, bank details and social security number, etc.
  • Please note that we’ll only ask for more sensitive personal information in connection with background checks after an offer is made.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues and maintaining system uptime.
  • $325,000 - $400,000 a year

    The base range represents the minimum and maximum for this position across North America. The compensation offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate. Our OTE is just one component of CaptivateIQ's competitive total rewards package.

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