What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President of Software Development position at RedBalloon?
Company: Lightcast
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Job Summary
The VP of Software Development leads the engineering organization responsible for building and operating a portfolio of web-based SaaS products, reporting to the CTO. This is a strategy-and-execution role: setting technical direction, establishing a high-velocity engineering operating model, and ensuring teams deliver secure, reliable, enterprise-grade software at scale.
You will partner closely with Product, AI/Data Science, Data Engineering, API, and TechOps leaders to align roadmaps to customer outcomes and scale a primarily full-time engineering organization, augmented by contractors as needed.
Culture and collaboration are critical. This leader thrives in a high-trust, low-ego environment and practices true co-ownership with Product, sharing accountability for outcomes end to end.
Responsibilities
Proven track record of successfully leading large-scale software development projects from conception through delivery in a fast-paced environment. Demonstrated ability to build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams while fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture.
This person will have strong business acumen with experience translating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and board members.
RedBalloon posts jobs on behalf of client companies
Job Summary
The VP of Software Development leads the engineering organization responsible for building and operating a portfolio of web-based SaaS products, reporting to the CTO. This is a strategy-and-execution role: setting technical direction, establishing a high-velocity engineering operating model, and ensuring teams deliver secure, reliable, enterprise-grade software at scale.
You will partner closely with Product, AI/Data Science, Data Engineering, API, and TechOps leaders to align roadmaps to customer outcomes and scale a primarily full-time engineering organization, augmented by contractors as needed.
Culture and collaboration are critical. This leader thrives in a high-trust, low-ego environment and practices true co-ownership with Product, sharing accountability for outcomes end to end.
Responsibilities
- Own delivery and operational excellence across product and shared platform teams
- Partner with Product leadership to define shared goals, priorities, and accountability for quality, speed, and customer impact
- Lead and develop Engineering Directors and Managers through coaching, feedback, career frameworks, and high hiring standards
- Drive measurable, end-to-end software delivery velocity
- Lead HCM/HRIS integrations, including APIs, SFTP/flat files, SCIM provisioning, and SSO (SAML/OIDC), in coordination with partners and vendors
- Apply a disciplined contractor/vendor model, defining externalizable work, quality gates, and knowledge transfer while retaining core IP and architecture in-house
- Advance SDLC automation best practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, release controls, and progressive delivery
- Embed AI-assisted development through tooling, governance, standards, and productivity measurement
Proven track record of successfully leading large-scale software development projects from conception through delivery in a fast-paced environment. Demonstrated ability to build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams while fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture.
This person will have strong business acumen with experience translating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and board members.
Salary : $200,000 - $250,000