VP of Engineering

Your role in the team

• As VP of Engineering, you are based in Berlin or Stuttgart and will be the most senior engineering leader at vialytics. You will lead Engineering, Platform, and Data Science, and partner closely with the CPTO to shape the technology strategy that supports our product ambition and growth.
• This role is about helping us get there: building a high-performing engineering organization, setting clear technical direction, and creating the platform and systems we need to scale well. You will also be responsible for the Data Science function, ensuring that our data and AI capabilities are tightly connected to the way we build products and scale the business.
• You will work closely with leaders across Product, Design, and Data to turn ambitious ideas into reliable, customer-facing products. We're looking for someone who is technically strong, product-minded, and great at building teams. A leader who knows how to combine strategy with execution and bring AI into products in ways that are practical, thoughtful, and impactful.

What we offer

• Freedom for your ideas: You can shape, experiment, and contribute from day one. Your opinion matters - and we mean it.
• Dynamic work environment: You'll gain valuable experience in a growing scale-up with an agile team, short decision-making paths, and plenty of room to take real ownership.
• Technology meets team spirit: Strong and motivated team, great technology stack and opportunity to influence the product evolution.
• Strong together - from day one: Our international team brings together founding members and new talents with diverse perspectives. What unites us? Diversity, energy, and real team spirit - even in a remote setting.
• Work the way that suits you: Our remote-first culture lets you work from anywhere within Germany - and Workation is possible upon agreement. You decide when and how you work - we trust you.
• Lifelong learning: Your development matters to us. That's why we offer you €1,500 of personal learning budget per year - for trainings, conferences, or other formats that help you grow.
• Attractive benefits: With EGYM Wellpass, you get access to 8,000+ gyms and health facilities. On top, enjoy exclusive employee discounts via corporate benefits and FutureBens - for tech, travel, lifestyle, and more.

Our expectations:

Qualifications

• You are a product-minded engineering leader with strong business judgment and deep technical credibility. You have grown from a hands-on engineering background into leadership, can go deep when needed, and know how to set a high bar for engineering craft while connecting technical decisions to customer, product, and business impact.
• You've partnered closely with Data Science/ML teams, integrating ML into product development, bridging Data Science and engineering, and ensuring initiatives deliver real product value.
• You believe deeply in cross-functional teams and a DevOps mindset, with engineering owning the full cycle and using metrics like DORA to drive performance.
• You're driven by real agility, shipping value continuously and adapting quickly, rather than by ceremony or process for its own sake.
• You are a leader of leaders who develops managers, coaches on people leadership, and builds scalable processes across planning, delivery, and operations, while communicating with evidence, not jargon, through structured reporting that stakeholders across the business can clearly understand and act on.
• You're excited about AI transforming engineering and have led (or are ready to lead) teams through the shift. You want to be at the front of it, not catching up, with a clear point of view on where it adds value and how to drive adoption.
• You bring a product-minded, cross-functional, and outcome-driven approach to engineering leadership. You value pragmatic ways of working, close collaboration across Product, Design, and Engineering, and a strong connection between technical decisions, customer value, and business impact. Exposure to US tech environments or US-led organizations can be a plus, but what matters most is the mindset.
• You are located either in Berlin or around Stuttgart to be able to come onsite to Stuttgart on a regular basis.

Experience

• You have led and scaled engineering teams from 30 to 70+ engineers in a B2B SaaS, ideally product-led, environment, building structures that sustain growth. You bring at least 5 years of experience in such roles, either as a CTO or reporting to a CTO/CPTO, owning engineering while staying closely aligned with product and technology leadership.