Vice President Product Development

Permanent position based in Dulles, VA. Fully onsite.

About the role

Own the end-to-end product development lifecycle for our platforms, from roadmap definition through architecture, implementation, release, and sustainment. Establish and drive the technical strategy for the hardened Android / AOSP platform, exercising authoritative architecture and engineering decision-making across the software stack. Provide deep, hands-on technical leadership, remaining directly engaged in system design, code quality, and complex engineering problems. Build, lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering organization, including engineering managers and individual-contributor team members.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the platform meets the security-hardening, assurance, and compliance requirements applicable to the Company’s defense, federal, and commercial customers.
• Define and enforce secure software development practices, release cadence, quality gates, and engineering standards across the organization.
• Partner with executive leadership, product management, program management, and customer-facing teams to translate market and customer requirements into technical execution.
• Own engineering resource planning and budgeting, and lead technical recruiting, talent development, and succession planning for the engineering function.
• Perform additional responsibilities as assigned, consistent with the scope and purpose of the position.

Requirements

• 10 or more years of progressive experience in software engineering, including substantial time in hands-on individual-contributor and technical-lead roles.
• Deep software engineering expertise, with demonstrated mastery of large-scale systems, platform, or embedded / mobile software development.
• Demonstrated track record of taking new products from concept through launch and commercialization (go-to-market).
• Proven experience leading and scaling engineering organizations at the Vice President level or above.
• Demonstrated track record of shipping complex, production-grade software products on schedule and at quality.
• Strong command of secure software development principles and modern engineering practices, including architecture, CI/CD, code review, and testing.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.

Skills

• Android
• Axon
• Software development
• Software applications
• Leadership

Pay

$270,000.00 - $340,000.00 per year

Benefits

• Medical
• Paid time off (PTO)
• 401(k)
• Equity
• Bonus offerings