VTS
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New York City, NY

Senior Director of Engineering, Leasing

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ABOUT VTS

VTS is commercial real estate’s leading leasing, marketing and asset management platform where deals happen and real-time data comes to life. The VTS Platform captures the largest first-party data source in the industry, which delivers real-time insights that fuel faster, more informed decision making and connections throughout the deal and asset lifecycle. VTS Data, the industry’s only forward-looking market dataset, and VTS Market and Marketplace, the industry’s first integrated online marketing solution, give landlords, brokers, and tenants unparalleled visibility into real-time market information and the direct connectivity to execute deals with greater speed and intelligence at every point in the planning, marketing, leasing, and asset management cycle.

More than 60% of Class A commercial space in the US and 12B square feet of commercial real estate globally is managed on the VTS platform. Our user base includes over 45,000 CRE professionals including respected industry leaders like Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, Boston Properties, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE.

We recently made the Forbes Cloud 100 list of the hottest private cloud companies, and were named one of Crain's best places to work! Our headquarters are in NYC, but we have hubs in other major US cities, Toronto, CA, and London, UK.

Learn more at vts.com or follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS), Twitter (@WeAreVTS), or LinkedIn. 

Are you wondering about how VTS has adapted to a WFH environment? Read our blog post here to find out!

How does this position help VTS succeed? 

As a senior leader within the engineering team, you’ll help translate our vision of accelerating the way landlords and tenants plan, market, lease, and manage space. Reporting to the VP, Engineering, you will lead the VTS Leasing product engineering organization which is responsible for delivering the market-leading leasing management software in Commercial Real Estate (CRE). You will lead a global team of twenty engineers, three engineering managers, and several technical leads.

What Makes this Job Awesome?

  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Design (PED) leadership to drive the delivery of VTS’ core leasing product (VTS3) by enabling development teams to deliver differentiating innovation to our users and drive business growth.
  • Drive a customer-first focus with a passion for building and growing empowered product teams to develop products for an international client base
  • Own software delivery for the VTS leasing engineering org by reinforcing agile best practices, doubling down on what works well, and identifying areas for improvement
  • Recruit, develop, and mentor a mix of new and seasoned technical leaders and staff/senior engineers for the engineering org
  • Reinforce a DevOps culture (“you shipped it, you own it”) across VTS engineering with investment in tools and processes relating to alerting, instrumentation, observability, SLA attainment, etc.
  • Ensure critical business and customer data is protected by information security best practices and key processes, including regular security retrospectives, annual pen tests, SOC2 compliance.
  • Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence at VTS by owning and/or partnering with the CTO, VP Engineering, and other PED leaders on the key initiatives spanning recruiting, budgeting/planning, career pathing, internal communication, and learning and development.

What makes you a great fit?

  • Ability to thrive in a high-growth environment requiring a high degree of autonomy and responsibility
  • Proven track record of leading product engineering organizations that generate tens of millions of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)
  • Passion for data and metrics-driven leadership using frameworks such as DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), OKRs, etc
  • Several years of experience coaching and supporting engineering managers and principal/staff engineers, ideally in a distributed team environment
  • Capable of building effective partnerships with leaders in other disciplines, and representing engineering concerns in cross-functional contexts
  • Deep technical expertise and maturity to add value to technical discussions and decision making
  • Driven by solving customer needs through cross-functional partnership
  • Have a playbook for scaling platform teams to support fast-growing application teams

Nice to haves

  • Experience leading a B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product engineering organization
  • Experience in full-stack development (Ruby on Rails and React)
  • Experience in establishing application and data services

More about our team

  • We have an 80+ person engineering teamWe work in small, cross-functional teams that include product managers, designers, and QA, grouped in outcome-oriented “houses”
  • We value continuous learning in our everyday work
  • We deploy daily and rely heavily on automated testing and CI
  • We use agile development and lean startup principles and practices to deliver products
  • We work with technologies like Ruby on Rails, React, Heroku, Postgres, AWS, Swift, Android, Python, and Kafka
  • Learn more on our engineering blog

What VTS values & how we show it:

  • Strive for Excellence - We know your potential is unlimited. Take advantage of our executive coaches and our training and career development programs available to all employees!
  • Be Customer Obsessed - We’re employee obsessed too! VTS offers competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits (including dental and vision), pre-tax commuter benefits, and a 401(k) plan. Not to mention the fun stuff - monthly happy hours, wellness events, clubs, and team lunches!
  • Be Curious - Benefit from a culture that promotes new learning. VTS offers an education stipend to all employees!
  • Move as One - We work in an open floor plan to promote cross-functional collaboration.
  • Take Ownership - Be an owner of the company you’re building with our equity packages.
  • Appreciate the Difference - VTS embraces and celebrates diversity. We understand the importance of a strong work-life balance. We offer a flexible PTO policy, generous family leave program, and more!

VTS embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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What are VTS Perks + Benefits

VTS Benefits Overview

We provide a multitude of perks and benefits, from generous paid family leave to an onsite management coach that anyone in the organization, regardless of level, can receive coaching from. We also encourage learning and development outside the workplace with our yearly education stipend!

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
In-person all-hands meetings
Summer hours
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
We have a variety of ERGs that employees can join including ones for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other groups that want to contribute to our diversity initiatives in a meaningful way.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Diversity recruitment program
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
VTS offers health club discounts!
Mental health benefits
We offer a 100% paid Employee Assistance Program for all employees.
Wellness days
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
VTS offers equity to every full-time employee.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Company sponsored family events
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Flexible time off
Company-wide vacation
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Recreational clubs
Home-office stipend for remote employees
During COVID, all of our employees and new. hires have received a $400 WFH stipend to help set up their home officies!
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Personal development training

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