Chief · 5 days ago
Vice President, Head of Technology
New York, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$285K/yr - $285K/yr
10+ years expChief is a private network for powerful women executives in business, aiming to enhance their leadership impact. They are seeking a Vice President, Head of Technology to lead their engineering and product organizations, overseeing a team to build scalable, intelligent, and member-centric experiences while managing the technical strategy and product vision.
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Responsibilities
Own the technical strategy and roadmap, balancing scalability, reliability, and delivery velocity
Lead and mentor a team of full-stack engineers (frontend, backend and mobile), fostering a culture of accountability and thoughtful decision-making
Evaluate existing systems with a pragmatic lens—clearly identifying what is worth fixing, refactoring, or rebuilding vs. what should be maintained
Architect and maintain a microservices-based platform, ensuring services are well-scoped, resilient, and observable
Establish best practices for engineering quality, CI/CD, testing, documentation, and incident response without introducing unnecessary processes
Provide executive oversight of internal IT infrastructure and operations, including employee laptops, email systems, identity and access management, security tooling, and core SaaS applications
Manage and support the individual responsible for day-to-day IT operations, ensuring clear priorities, strong service levels, and appropriate security and compliance standards
Establish lightweight, scalable processes for onboarding/offboarding, device management, access controls, and vendor management
Establish clear privacy and security protocols throughout the organization and ensuring products and new features meet latest security guidelines
Lead the application of AI and machine learning to meaningfully improve our social/network experience (e.g., personalization, recommendations, matchmaking, insights, moderation)
Drive responsible experimentation with AI tools to improve both member experience and internal efficiency
Translate emerging AI capabilities into practical, high-impact product features
Own the product and design organization and function, ensuring tight alignment between product strategy, engineering execution, and business goals
Partner with stakeholders to define priorities, tradeoffs, and success metrics
Lead product discovery and delivery with a bias toward learning, iteration, and measurable outcomes
Ensure product decisions reflect both member needs and technical realities
Own the technical relationship with Salesforce, including architecture, integrations, data flows, and system reliability
Ensure Salesforce supports business needs without becoming a bottleneck or source of excessive complexity
Oversee integration with Braze, enabling effective lifecycle messaging, personalization, and engagement
Partner with GTM, marketing, and operations teams to ensure systems are well-integrated and purpose-built
Design and oversee data pipelines and integrations across product, Salesforce, Braze, and other systems
Establish clear data governance standards for data quality, privacy, security, and access
Enable trusted data for personalization, analytics, and decision-making without over-engineering
Own and optimize use of Sanity (or similar headless CMS) as part of the experience layer
Ensure content systems integrate cleanly with product and support flexibility and scale
Serve as a strategic partner to executive leadership on technology, product, and platform decisions
Clearly communicate tradeoffs and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences
Lead hiring, team structure, and long-term capability development across engineering and product
Qualification
Required
10+ years of software engineering experience
At least 5+ years in senior leadership roles
Experience building and scaling high-performing teams
Developed and executed comprehensive strategies for microservices, APIs, and distributed systems
Experience with legacy modernization and navigating technical debt
Deep fluency in Salesforce, Braze, and cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Experience architecting and deploying AI/ML features within production consumer products
Effective partnership across the C-Suite and GTM, Marketing, and Operations teams
Experience coaching and inspiring multidisciplinary teams
Strong technical and strategic thinking skills
Ability to operate in ambiguity and balance long-term architecture with near-term execution
Experience with data governance standards for data quality, privacy, security, and access
Experience with establishing best practices for engineering quality, CI/CD, testing, documentation, and incident response
Experience managing IT infrastructure and operations
Experience with onboarding/offboarding, device management, access controls, and vendor management
Ability to clearly communicate tradeoffs and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences
Benefits
Flexible vacation policy
20 weeks of paid gender neutral parental leave
Full medical, dental, and vision packages
401(k)
Opportunity to work for a startup focused on driving real change for women in business
Opportunity to create and attend inspiring experiences and events with leaders of the industry
Access to our ongoing virtual Chief member exclusive content, including workshops, thought leadership, and iconic speakers
Company
Chief
Chief is a private membership network focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$140MKey Investors
CapitalG
2022-03-31Series B· $100M
2020-05-21Series A· $15M
2019-10-25Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Alison Moore
Chief Executive Officer
Carolyn Childers
Co-Founder & Chairman of Board
Recent News
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