VP, Engineering
Role Overview
This is Thrive’s first executive engineering leader below the CTO, with authority over delivery commitments, engineering teams, and capacity decisions.
The role leads four teams and sixteen engineers building a platform used by governments and large enterprises, serving three business units.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Thrive
Thrive provides technology-enabled outplacement and career-wellness solutions to employers and service providers.
The company aims to make career-transition services accessible to people facing workforce transitions.
Opportunity
This is Thrive’s first executive engineering leader below the CTO, with authority over delivery commitments, engineering teams, and capacity decisions.
The role leads four teams and sixteen engineers building a platform used by governments and large enterprises, serving three business units.
Key accountabilities
- Own delivery dates and commitments across teams and business units, with authority to change a date or decline a commitment.
- Work with sales and business-unit owners to ensure promised delivery has engineering capacity attached.
- Manage engineering teams, including one-to-ones, performance, development, and progression.
- Lead engineering hiring and standards, and build a leveling framework with the Head of People.
- Shape teams, allocate capacity, and own platform reliability, incident response, and technical-debt planning.
- Propose and defend quarterly technical-debt allocation to the executive team.
Qualifications
- Led engineering for a business software product with roughly 15–60 engineers.
- Owned delivery dates and can describe a commitment that was changed or declined.
- Managed managers or team leads.
- Comfortable engaging with customers, procurement teams, or security reviewers.
Valued experience
- Enterprise or public-sector delivery, including security reviews and compliance evidence, is valued.
- Applied AI or machine-learning products and multi-tenant platform work are valued.
- Experience at a business that had to earn its budget and building a leveling or progression framework are valued.
Compensation and benefits
- The posting offers a competitive executive base salary commensurate with experience, with a premium for candidates able to be in Toronto regularly.
- An annual company performance bonus, meaningful equity in a revenue-generating private Canadian company, and the company benefits plan are offered.
Recruitment process
- The process includes five conversations: an introductory call, discussions with the CTO, engineers, a business-unit owner, and the CEO.
- The company says it does not use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants and will provide interview-status updates within 45 days of the final interview.
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