Vice President, Engineering

Hello, we’re Augeo, a global leader in enterprise\-level engagement and loyalty platform technology, delivering compelling experiences and fostering meaningful connections for employees, consumers, members, and channel partners across many industries and verticals. We serve hundreds of clients, including 65 Fortune 500 companies, representing millions of end users. We are thought leaders and disruptors who think differently and creatively, built by entrepreneurs, operators, and innovators.

At Augeo, we’re passionate about providing an inclusive workplace that values diversity and our sustainability initiatives. Everyone is welcome \- our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic whole selves to work. Be you, reach your full potential.

We work hard, we play hard, and, most importantly, we care to our core about our teams and each other. We over\-communicate around everything...especially while we navigate our new hybrid world.

Summary

The Vice President of Engineering is Augeo's most senior engineering leader, serving as both the strategic operator and organizational backbone of the technology function. Reporting directly to the SVP of Technology, this role exists at the intersection of execution and vision: you'll translate organizational strategy into engineering outcomes, own the cross\-platform programs that define Augeo's product and infrastructure trajectory, and serve as the SVP’s primary deputy across every engineering domain.

This is not a role for someone who wants to manage a single platform team. Augeo operates three distinct technology ecosystems: the AWE platform (TypeScript/React/Node.js/AWS), the Encore platform (.NET/C\#/SQL Server), and multiple ColdFusion platforms (Lucee/ColdBox/MySQL), alongside a growing data infrastructure built on Snowflake and AWS. You'll lead engineering across all of them, ensuring alignment without requiring uniformity and driving cross\-functional programs such as platform modernization, AI adoption, data migration, DevSecOps, SOC 2 compliance, which cannot be owned by any single platform team.

You'll be a genuine champion of AI\-enabled engineering: not just deploying tools, but building the governance frameworks, measurement systems, and team culture that allow AI to compound across the organization. You'll be expected to quantify the impact of AI adoption, identify new opportunities for automation and intelligence, and lead by example in your own workflows. This role is designed for someone with the technical credibility to earn the trust of staff engineers, the strategic instincts to represent engineering at the executive level, and the operational discipline to keep complex, multi\-platform programs moving.

Who You Are

An innovator who brings ideas to the table, works hard, tells your story, and builds new tech \- someone who is a genuine collaborator who contributes to the team and helps accomplish amazing things in a high\-energy and dynamic environment.

Curious: Keep learning, keep implementing, and iterate

High\-level Job Requirements

• Partner with the SVP, Technology, to define and execute Augeo's multi\-year engineering strategy, owning the translation from vision to roadmap to delivery
• Represent engineering in cross\-functional executive conversations, acting as the SVP’s primary deputy with full authority to commit engineering direction on their behalf

Develop and maintain the engineering organizational model \- team structures, career ladders, hiring plans, and capacity allocation

• \- in alignment with business priorities

Establish and maintain the measurement infrastructure for AI ROI \- productivity metrics, quality signals, cost baselines

• \- and report findings to the SVP and executive team on a regular cadence
• Identify and drive the next generation of AI\-enabled engineering opportunities beyond coding assistants: agentic workflows, AI\-powered infrastructure operations, intelligent quality assurance, and LLM\-integrated product features
• Lead by example in AI adoption, demonstrating effective use of AI tools in your own workflows and establishing credibility as a practitioner, not just a sponsor
• Own the delivery health of cross\-platform programs, establishing clear milestones, escalation paths, and executive reporting for initiatives that span multiple engineering teams
• Partner with the DevOps Lead to advance Augeo's DevSecOps posture: pipeline security, infrastructure as code adoption, secrets management, and automated compliance controls
• Maintain visibility into engineering velocity across all platform teams, identifying systemic blockers and driving resolution at the organizational level
• Own the engineering budget in partnership with the SVP, Technology, including tooling, infrastructure, and headcount planning
• Build and maintain a high\-trust, high\-accountability engineering culture that rewards technical excellence, intellectual curiosity, and cross\-team collaboration
• Mentor engineering managers in developing their own strategic and organizational leadership capabilities

Champion Augeo's CORE values \- Collaborative, Objective, Responsive, and Earnest

• \- as the standard for engineering culture and team behavior

Competencies

• Demonstrated experience owning and delivering complex, cross\-functional technical programs from strategy through production, including the ability to drive alignment across teams without direct authority

Deep understanding of AI's practical applications in software engineering

• \- coding assistants, agentic workflows, AIOps, and LLM\-integrated products with demonstrated experience governing AI adoption at an organizational level
• Strong executive communication skills: the ability to represent technical complexity accurately to non\-technical stakeholders and translate business priorities back into engineering direction
• Experience navigating the tension between product investment and service delivery in a B2B SaaS environment, with demonstrated success in building frameworks that protect both
• Financial and organizational acumen: comfortable owning engineering budgets, headcount plans, and ROI conversations with executive leadership
• Security\-first thinking: familiarity with SOC 2 Type II, PCI\-DSS, and the operational disciplines required to maintain compliance in a multi\-platform engineering environment
• Intellectual honesty and a strong bias toward measurement \- you form opinions from data and update them when data changes
• Drive the resolution of the product vs. professional services capacity tension, developing frameworks that protect strategic engineering investment while honoring client delivery commitments

Desired Technical Skills

• Senior\-level fluency across at least two of Augeo's core technology ecosystems: .NET/C\#/SQL Server, TypeScript/React/Node.js, or ColdFusion (Coldbox, Lucee)
• Working knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure, including cross\-account networking, IAM architecture, and service\-to\-service authentication patterns
• Experience with data pipeline architectures, including CDC patterns, ETL/ELT frameworks, and cloud data warehouse migration strategies
• Familiarity with DevSecOps tooling and practices: CI/CD pipeline security, SAST/DAST/SCA, secrets management, and infrastructure as code
• Practical experience with AI/ML tooling in engineering contexts: AI coding assistants (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code), agentic workflow development, and AIOps platforms
• Understanding of compliance frameworks (SOC 2 Type II, PCI\-DSS) and their engineering implications at the infrastructure and SDLC level
• Experience with engineering metrics and observability: DORA metrics, AI productivity measurement, delivery velocity tracking, and quality signal instrumentation

Education and Experience

• 12\+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including at least 4 years in engineering leadership at the Director level or above, spanning multiple technology platforms or product lines simultaneously
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering organizations spanning multiple technology platforms or product lines simultaneously
• Background in B2B SaaS environments with enterprise clients strongly preferred; experience navigating the product/professional services tension is a significant differentiator
• Four\-year college degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred (or equivalent demonstrated technical leadership experience)
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and modern engineering toolchains

Work Environment

This position operates in a professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers and smartphones.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Travel

Travel is primarily local during the business day, although occasional out\-of\-area and overnight travel may be expected for team gatherings, client engagements, or executive off\-sites.

Benefits of joining team Augeo

• We offer Medical, Dental and Vision coverage with additional perks through third party vendors offering more virtual and in person care at your fingertips (must be in select locations)
• We offer paid Long\-Term disability and Life Insurance
• HSA/FSA plans
• We offer varying voluntary benefits such as critical, hospital, pet coverage and much more
• Employee benefit education, campaigns and wellness opportunities
• 401k retirement matching and financial planning resources
• Education reimbursement
• Several EAP resources
• 13 paid holidays and PTO time
• Rewards, incentives and gamification for birthdays, Work\-aversery's, professional and personal milestones, company involvement and kudos
• Employee referral bonuses
• Employee group opportunities
• Fun, casual and flexible working environment that embraces the hybrid workstyle
• Career growth opportunities
• Summer internship program

* *St. Paul MN Preferred, but open to remote*