What We Do…

PSPDFKit is the leading document processing and manipulation platform for developers and enterprise businesses. Our customers use our offering to create, edit, sign, and collaborate on documents in their applications across mobile, web, and all other major platforms. We’re on a mission to empower developers with the tools needed to innovate beyond paper.

Nearly a billion end users in more than 150 countries rely on PSPDFKit every day including industry leaders like Dropbox, DocuSign, SAP, IBM, Volkswagen, Fabasoft, Wolters Kluwer Deutschland, and the European Patent Office. Our software development kits enable companies to work smarter and faster, saving time and expenses along the way, while effectively replacing the need for paper processes.

What You Will Do…

As the Vice President of Engineering, you will play a crucial role in managing day-to-day engineering operations across our organization and assisting the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with both strategic and tactical initiatives. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will have Engineering Team Leads as your direct reports. You will collaborate with many stakeholders across the company, including Product, Sales, Marketing and Operations.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing and mentoring Engineering Team Leads, focusing on their motivation, management skills, performance, objectives, and career paths.
• Overseeing and executing the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Product Iterations (PIs) for all engineering teams in collaboration with the Product Management team.
• Ensuring effective collaboration across engineering teams and with other company functions.
• Defining personnel requirements, participating in or leading candidate assessments and recruiting efforts.
• Acting as an intermediary between engineering teams and executive management, especially the CTO.
• Assisting the CTO with strategic planning, technical leadership and executive reporting.
• Participating in due-diligence and company integration work in mergers and acquisitions.

Some of your daily tasks will include:

Keeping the Lights On:

• Overseeing the execution of Product Iterations (PIs) across teams.
• Participating in team meetings and SDLC-related ceremonies on demand.
• Keeping track of weekly status reports from engineering teams and facilitating discussions around important points in the engineering meeting.
• Communicating the most important engineering updates to the executive team.

Managing People:

• Maintaining regular 1on1s with engineering team leads, discussing both individual and team topics.
• Carrying out performance evaluations of team leads and ensuring adoption of the performance review process in accordance of the career framework across the engineering organization.
• Setting personal objectives for every team lead.
• Managing vacation approvals, sick leave, conference days, and similar for team leads.

Help Shape the Engineering Organization:

• Preparing high-level engineering documentation and policies for review by CTO.
• Giving feedback on engineering workflows, policies, and efforts.
• Leading the weekly engineering meeting.

Collaboration with Other Parties:

• Maintaining regular 1on1s with CTO and COO.
• Participating in executive meetings and other executive group activities on demand.
• Coordinating with Product and HR.
• Representing engineering in high-value sales calls, quarterly business reviews and escalated support cases.
• Helping with sales enablement and related training.

Hiring and Onboarding:

• Preparing onboarding expectations for team leads.
• Onboarding new team leads, pairing with team members for those unfamiliar with the technical domain.
• Drafting job specifications for management positions.
• Participating in late-stage interviews for various positions or leading hiring efforts for management positions.

About You...

We're seeking a seasoned software engineering manager with:

• Multiple years of experience leading software engineering teams and/or middle managers in different organizations.
• A strong technical background. Experience with developer tools, backend technologies is a plus.
• Strong coordination and communication skills to coordinate work and share information effectively among different groups and stakeholders.
• A willingness to receive and provide feedback, including constructive criticism in pursuit of our core values and a culture of high performance.
• A good business sense to participate in strategic discussions and prioritize high impact projects.

About Us...

In 2021, PSPDFKit announced its first strategic growth investment led by Insight Partners, a New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm focused on growth-stage software and technology companies. Insight’s investment, which totals more than $115 million, is being used to accelerate product growth, sales & marketing efforts, and fund strategic acquisitions, further expanding the capabilities of PSPDFKit’s highly adopted document processing platform.

PSPDFKit hires people who are curious, creative, communicative, and collaborative. We’re a highly cross-functional organization, and we’re committed to tackling challenging problems so our customers can focus on building great products.

We are a remote company. To ensure overlap with most of the team across the US, Europe and Asia, we’re looking for someone who will have a significant overlap with US and European working hours. If working from the US, you must be located in Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, or South Carolina. We do not process payroll in other US Eastern time zone states.

We Offer...

At our company, we champion a remote-first culture, giving our team members the autonomy to tailor their work schedules to their individual lifestyles, provided there's some working time common with the CET and EST zones (given our engineering's significant presence in CET). Every year, we host a company gathering at an offsite location; past locations have been in Croatia, Italy, Spain, Greece, Austria, Portugal, and Hungary. Team members have access to a competitive paid time off benefit, with additional days for conference attendance. Above all, we emphasize continuous growth, urging our team to pursue avenues of learning and innovation.

We Value...

• Continuous improvement
• Feedback
• Transparency
• People
• Creativity
• Character

For a deeper understanding of our core values, please visit our website.

PSPDFKit is an equal opportunity employer with people from many different cultures and countries. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, skill sets, perspectives, as well as providing our employees with a work environment free of harassment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, marital status, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other non-merit factor. We’d especially love to receive applications from individuals who are underrepresented in the tech industry.