VP, Engineering (Remote - UK or US East Coast)

Quit Genius is the digital clinic for substance addictions. We are on a mission to help 100 million people overcome tobacco, alcohol and opioid addictions by combining technology, healthcare and design. It's an ambitious mission, but one we fully believe in and we hire people who share our aspirations and core values.

We are a global team of doctors, designers, engineers and researchers who are aligned by one common goal. Authenticity, creativity, purpose and thoughtfulness are at the heart of everything we do to deliver that goal, so finding exceptional people to come on the journey is everything to us. Quit Genius has scaled to dozens of health plans and employers, covering over 2 million lives and has already helped more than 750,000 members conquer their addictions. As of 2021, we have raised $78M from leading global investors and now work with 100+ world-class team members across our New York, London, and remote offices.

If you are passionate about making an impact on the health of others, join us and make it happen!

The team is looking for a VP of Engineering who will form a core part of the executive team on this exciting next phase of our growth journey. The VP of Engineering will need to possess the flexibility to deep-dive with the team to build credibility from a technical standpoint, as well as setting up requisite structures and processes for scale. The VP of Engineering will report directly into the Chief Product Officer. Position location: UK or US (East Coast).

The team culture is collaborative, dynamic, hands-on, and growing. As it grows, it will be important to develop people, as well as the culture, integrating new people and ideas. You will foster a healthy and collaborative culture aligned with the Quit Genius values.

This is an amazing opportunity to join an exciting and innovative organization, where you will bring responsibility and excellence to execution. You will drive autonomy and ownership into engineering and implement structures and processes that will ensure technical productivity, reliability and overall operational excellence, whilst working with the wider leadership to strategise the continued enablement delivered by Quit Genius' offering.

• Provide excellent leadership and mentorship to members of the engineering team.
• Build an amazing, talented, motivated and diverse engineering team
• You will partner closely with leadership across all functions - Product, Design, Data, Sales, Customer Success, Growth and Marketing.
• Have a deep insight into the quality and output metrics of the engineering organization
• Build processes and tools that ensure a high performance.
• Work with the talent team to ensure engineering hiring capacity requirements are met.
• Manage the career progression of the members of the engineering team.

• Experience of building, leading, and scaling engineering and development teams
• Well-versed in designing feature-based, autonomous engineering teams with meshed DevOps.
• Strong experience in implementing engineering processes and people development with the engineering function.
• Excellent communicator and issue resolver.
• Strong strategic mindset that is able to marry the short-, medium- and long-term direction of the business. Experience working with Founders to deliver on product vision.
• Can articulate technology vision and delivery strategy with technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Technical/Engineering leadership within a modern, scaled consumerism technology business, extending to technical/engineering leadership within a mobile-first organization.
• Experience of leading technology in venture-backed environments and the related entrepreneurial mindset is highly desirable.

• Experience of designing SOA and/or microservices architectures on hosted networks and cloud infrastructures, along with expertise in the architecture and integration of applications into existing web stacks without performance issues.
• Experience of developing consumer-grade mobile applications.
• Expertise in leveraging data and analytics in consumer propositions to drive personalisation.
• Experience of developing products with strong security and compliance requirements would be an advantage.
• Exposure to platform development, extending to an experience of customizing existing technology platforms/applications.
• Ability to join technology to markets through product development.E
• Experience in developing platforms/applications under regulation would be an advantage.

• Generous and meaningful stock options
• Pension package
• 28 days annual leave
• Enhanced parental leave, both for maternity and paternity
• Flexible working environment
• Generous learning and development budget
• Company-wide yoga sessions
• Calm subscription
• Accelerated career growth opportunities to match the fast-paced growth of the business
• Join a talented, passionate and ambitious team of doctors, designers and technologists with a fun-loving culture

Our teams at Quit Genius are made up of an incredible range of talented people from all walks of life. We believe that diversity of any description leads to innovation, idea sharing and collaboration.

Quit Genius is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status. Diversity and Inclusion are paramount to the success of our mission and our culture is driven by our differences, each of which we embrace with open arms.