Vice President, Engineering

Company Overview:

Valimail is a fast growing, venture funded startup and the leader in Email Authentication as a Service. Here is your chance to get in on the ground floor at an important technology innovator and to help build a major business service category. We have built a revolutionary platform on top of open standards — DMARC, DKIM, and SPF — for the first time it makes it possible for any organization to protect itself against email impersonation. Valimail pioneered the notion of automated email authentication, with innovative components like our DNS-based Authenticator (including our patented Instant SPF). We’re committed to building a more trusted email ecosystem.

Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented classes will only apply to roles if they feel they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Valimail, we encourage you to break through that statistic. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need in the future. NO ONE ever meets 100% of the qualifications. We hope you're open to learning new skills in order to grow with us. Make our team your team!

Position Overview:

We are seeking a collaborative, communicative, and performance-oriented VP of Engineering to lead our department and drive innovation in our Email Authentication as a Service platform. You will shape our technology strategy, oversee product execution, and ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of our solutions.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Provide strategic direction and technical leadership to the engineering team.
• Develop and execute the engineering roadmap to align with corporate strategy and objectives as part of the executive team as part of the executive team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, aligning engineering efforts with business goals.
• Collaborate with product management and cross-functional teams to define requirements and roadmap.
• Lead end-to-end product implementation execution, ensuring on-time and high-quality delivery.
• Lead the continued design and development of our scalable, compliant, and secure platform.
• Build and mentor a diverse, engaged, and high-performing engineering team.
• Translate company strategy into clear department goals and performance expectations.
• Engage in career development conversations to ensure proper growth and development of all team members. 
• Drive architectural decisions for scalability, reliability, and security in partnership with your engineering leadership team.
• Implement best practices for software development, delivery, and quality assurance.
• Balance tradeoffs between velocity and quality to ensure the right balance for a startup moving into a scaleup.

About you:

• 8+ years of engineering leadership in delivering a Saas solution..
• Strong technical background in software development, ideally leading teams in Ruby and Go 
• Proven success scaling codebases and teams from startup to scaleup Proven success managing highly scalable infrastructure handling critical business data or transactions.
• Experience managing a distributed, remote team 
• Exceptional problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with team members, peers, and management.

Bonus Points:

• Experience developing a solution in cybersecurity
• Experience with FedRAMP, SOC2 Type II compliance
• Familiarity with email security or DMARC protocols
• Experience operating with cross-functional teams
• Experience with DNS and other public network protocols
• Experience managing teams working in Ruby and Go

Who We Are

Valimail is the global leader in zero-trust email security. The company's full line of cloud-native solutions authenticate sender identity to stop phishing, protect brands, and ensure compliance; they are used by organizations ranging from neighborhood shops to some of the world's largest organizations, including Uber, Splunk, Yelp, Mercedes Benz USA, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Valimail is the fastest-growing DMARC solution with the largest global market share and is the premier DMARC partner for Microsoft 365 environments. 

Valimail is an E-Verify Employer. For more information on E-Verify, review the posters here. 

Why Join Us?

• Competitive pay + participation in employee stock option plan. The anticipated salary range for this role is $225,00 - $250,000. This role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive and variable bonus plan.  Actual title and compensation is commensurate with qualifications and experience. 
• Comprehensive health, dental, + vision coverage
• Eight weeks of paid maternity leave & Four weeks of paid paternity leave (if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition)
• Remote First Company, you can work anywhere within the US
• Unlimited and flexible PTO. We believe balanced, happy, relaxed people do better work

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