Role
VP of Engineering
The leader who scales engineering delivery
The VP of Engineering is accountable for engineering throughput, team health, and operational reliability. You manage multiple teams, set the hiring bar, own the delivery process, and keep the organisation running while the CTO focuses on strategy. When things go wrong — and they will — you own the response.
Delivery and throughput
Engineering velocity is not just a sprint metric — it is the compound result of hiring decisions, technical debt levels, on-call burden, and process discipline. The Engineering Metrics Dashboard surfaces the DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) that distinguish high-performing teams from average ones. Sprint Capacity Planner prevents the commitment trap of promising what the team cannot deliver.
Org structure and team health
As the organisation grows, the structure of teams determines what you can ship and what slows you down. Team Topology helps you model Conway's Law before it models you — identifying where cognitive load is too high and where coordination costs are killing delivery. Engineering Org Design helps you think through reporting structures, span of control, and team boundaries before a reorg creates new problems.
Hiring and compensation
Headcount Forecasting gives you a model to take to finance — not a guess. Salary Band Calculator helps you make offers that are competitive and internally consistent, reducing the drift that creates retention problems over time. The Engineering Ladder provides a clear, shareable framework for levelling that removes subjectivity from promotion decisions.
Incident response and operational reliability
When systems fail, the quality of your response determines how much trust you lose and how fast you recover it. Incident Postmortem structures blameless retrospectives that actually result in lasting fixes. On-Call Rotation Optimizer distributes on-call burden equitably, which is one of the most common causes of burnout and attrition you have direct control over.
Key benefits
- DORA metrics visibility that gives you an objective read on delivery health
- Org design tools that help you structure teams for the work you need to do
- Headcount and compensation models that hold up in finance conversations
- Incident tooling that turns post-mortems into genuine process improvement
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