VP of Engineering

Job Description

The Role

Clearstory is looking for a dynamic VP of Engineering at ClearStory.build who will play a critical role in scaling our engineering team and processes to support our growth as we advance through our Series B stage. This leader will drive the development and execution of engineering strategies, ensuring alignment with our business objectives and maintaining the highest standards of quality and efficiency. The ideal candidate will foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, inspire and lead a talented engineering team, and implement processes that enhance our product delivery and quality assurance.

We have a clear and exciting roadmap in front of us. Our founder and team come from the industry we serve and we know exactly what to go build in order to continue innovating for our industry and delivering value to our customers. We need an engineering leader who can help us accelerate delivery of that roadmap.

Key outcomes you will own and drive

1. Design, Implement, and Manage a more efficient Engineering process:
   1. Responsible for designing, implementing and managing the engineering, quality, and product process to increase efficiency and delivery speed.
   2. Implement best practices and tools that streamline development, reduce bottlenecks, and enhance team collaboration.
   3. Develop a system to monitor velocity and quality effortlessly that doesn’t waste team members' time.
   4. The ideal candidate has conviction on how to create this process based on past experience and is confident making decisions and driving change.
2. Create a work culture where engineers are excited to work and recruit for our Series B roadmap:
   1. Build and nurture a positive and high-performing engineering culture that attracts and retains top talent.
   2. Strategically recruit and onboard new engineers to expand our team in alignment with our Series B growth plans and future roadmap.
   3. Lead initiatives that promote professional development, mentorship, and career growth for engineering team members.
3. Design, Implement, and Manage a more efficient Quality Assurance process:
   1. Establish comprehensive quality assurance protocols that minimize bugs and defects in production releases.
   2. Integrate automated testing and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices to enhance reliability and speed.
   3. Ensure that quality assurance processes are scalable and adaptable to support our growing product suite and customer base.
   4. The ideal candidate has conviction on how to build, run and scale a QA process based on past experience and is confident making decisions and driving change.

What the day-to-day looks like

1. Ensure the trains are leaving the station on time and the team is being efficient.
2. As needed, help developers who are stuck on code, technology, and process issues.
3. Be a sounding board for strategic decisions with our CTO and head of product.
4. Own the reporting on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
5. Develop an efficient cadence to do 1:1s with the engineering team members that don’t waste the team's time but give them constructive feedback and guidance.

Requirements

Must haves

• Experience running venture backed Series A+ engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of JavaScript, React, Node.js, golang.
• Experience with Kubernetes (we use GCP GKE) and containers.
• Experience leading Agile development.
• Willingness to be hands-on and scrappy. We will not expect you to code in your day to day, but you must be able to.

In addition to that, we want to talk if you have...

• Node.js (Typescript) experience.
• Pub/sub experience.
• Familiarity with ETL pipelines.
• Familiarity with SDLC concepts and working in an environment that meets SOC 2 Type II requirements, GDPR, CCPA, etc.
• FinTech or ConTech experience.
• Previous experience in the commercial construction industry either in-the-field or on the software side.

About You

We want you to be a part of the Clearstory success story so as you engage with us and our team members, it would be helpful for you to understand some of the core characteristics of our team - hopefully, many of these resonate with you

• Embody our core values:
  • Be Curious
  • Customer Obsession
  • Keep It Simple
  • Raise the bar

• Passion and enthusiasm for your work and the Company.
• Loves to take the initiative.
• An upbeat, positive, and good-to-be-around attitude.
• Sense of humor.
• Is a “doer” with a hands-on approach.
• Very high energy.
• Commitment to excellence.
• Operationally focused - thinking about the entire business and not just your role.
• Bright, quick, articulate, able to influence without direct authority, excellent presentation and interpersonal skills, and able to adapt to different outside constituencies.
• Ability to influence peers, operational managers, and executive team.
• People willingly seek out your advice in the planning phase of decisions.
• Strong entrepreneurial nature and approach.
• You foster trust and accessibility.
• Strong prioritization skills.
• Aggressive drive with a can-do attitude.
• Ability to build relationships and earn the respect of other teams.
• Organizational tolerance: able to work with ambiguity and constant change.
• Genuine passion for customer service.
• Enjoys and has implemented change.
• Believes strongly in his/her abilities.

The Company You’ll Join

We are a first-of-its-kind, category-defining software that is revolutionizing the commercial construction industry. Clearstory is digitizing and automating the change order process inside the commercial construction industry. Regardless of what financial software a construction company uses internally, they can use us to share costs with the companies they work with. This is why our integrations team is so critical to our company’s success

Just as TurboTax did for tax documents and Bill.com did for accounts receivable and accounts payable, Clearstory is doing the same for change order communication between construction companies.

The construction industry is being transformed fast by technology, but the way companies communicate costs hasn’t evolved in decades and still heavily relies on carbon copy paper, spreadsheets and email to track billions of dollars. These arcane manual processes can take days or weeks and include hours of manual office tasks such as scanning, manually transcribing, and tedious data-entry into spreadsheets.

At Clearstory we are changing that and creating a new category “change order communication,” by intelligently digitizing this old process. This leads to an increase in profits, more successful contractor-to-customer relationships, more transparency into a project’s true cost, and less wasted paper

We are a Series B 100% SaaS company with impressive credentials for a company at our stage.

The Team You’ll Be Surrounded By

In addition to experienced SaaS sales, marketing, engineering and product leaders, our team has over 60 years of combined experience in the commercial construction space. At Clearstory we know our customer’s pain points and challenges firsthand and have built a category-defining product that serves the user first.

You’ll be part of an ambitious and collaborative company, committed to growing a supportive and diverse team that is passionate about empowering our contractor customers.

More important than meeting 100% of qualifications, we are looking for collaborative, long-term team members with a growth mindset, a commitment to proactive communication, and a bias towards action, who are aligned and excited with our company’s mission to build the industry standard in digital change order communication for the commercial construction industry.

The Opportunity

As an early member of the team, you will have an exceptional level of impact on the development and iteration of our Company and the workplace culture itself.

This is your chance to join a team that is bringing game-changing technology to a stagnant, static, pen-and-paper part of the commercial construction industry.

This is an earlier-stage company and as such you will have many intangible benefits that go along with that opportunity such as the ability to influence the culture of your workplace, the ability to make an immediate impact with a product that already has an established product market fit and a healthy and growing user base as well as significant product influence.

Benefits

• Ability to work with a new product category that has already found product market fit.
• This role is 5 days a week in our office here in Walnut Creek.
• Executive interaction on a regular basis.
• Competitive market-rate salary for a Series A company.
• Subsidized healthcare, vision, and dental.
• Early equity

We are an equal-opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a medical condition are needed, connect with us via email at recruiting@Clearstory.com. As a company, we value fairness, collaboration, communication, and leadership and build our teams around these values.