Vice President, Apps
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Vice President, Apps
Responsibilities
- Lead by example, fostering a culture of accountability and a customer-first mindset.
- Attract, build, manage, and develop a high-performing team of software engineers and leaders with diverse expertise, perspectives, and backgrounds.
- Drive an AI-native paradigm across the full software development lifecycle, leveraging AI as a foundational layer and positioning AI agents as core participants in writing, testing, and refining code from the ground up.
- Implement a shift from manual coding to AI-enabled design, verification, and orchestration of intelligent, automated workflows, delivering step-function improvements in code quality and developer productivity , and materially reducing toil and cognitive load.
- Partner closely with stakeholders to implement and exemplify a true platform engineering producer–consumer model, supported by bidirectional accountability and service-level objectives. This model includes self-service, autonomous consumption of shared software services, as well as developer experience, data, and infrastructure platform services to accelerate development and improve product quality.
- Serve as the engineering leader accountable to internal customers and stakeholders across: (1) product development (building, testing, and maintaining front-end and back-end application code to deliver business value), (2) platform consumption (maximizing as-a-service use of CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, databases, and other platform capabilities), (3) feature delivery (partnering with product managers to deliver new features and enhance existing software), and (4) operational support (monitoring, debugging, and patching applications while ensuring compliance with security and operational policies defined by platform teams).
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or master's degree (Ph.D. preferred) in computer science, engineering, or related field.
- Current or prior soft ware engineering experience operating at the VP level within an established technology company.
- 15+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 8+ years in senior people management roles, and preferably 4+ years leading global software engineering teams serving multiple internal customers and delivering capabilities used by millions of users or supporting $100M+ businesses.
- Demonstrated success building high-performing, diverse engineering teams and improving organizational efficiency.
- Proven ability to deliver measurable business value through engineering excellence, efficiency, and execution speed.
- Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern AI-native software development lifecycle practices.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to develop and deliver persuasive, senior-executive-level content.
- Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills, with a track record of building deep, trusted cross-organizational relationships.
The pay range for this role is $320,000 to $350,000 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits: HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Long term/short term disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Generous time off policies, including;
- 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
- 11 paid holidays
- Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview [https://hpbenefits.ce.alight.com/])
The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of thisposting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.
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