VP of Engineering, Consumer
Car shopping is complicated. At CarGurus, we use data and technology to make it simple, giving people the tools they need to confidently find, buy, finance, or sell a car. The best part? Our work makes a real impact. We’re the most-visited car-shopping site in the US and we are growing fast in our international markets. Ready to come along for the ride?
CarGurus is looking for an experienced, motivated, and innovative VP of Engineering to be responsible for our Consumer function. As a leader in the organization, you will have overall responsibility for developing and implementing the consumer product vision and strategy for CarGurus’ industry-leading and evolving car shopping service! The ideal candidate will bring extensive engineering management skills, people leadership expertise, and business understanding to the role. Reporting to the Chief Technical Officer, you will work with a diverse group of partners and your team to take CarGurus’ already market leading core consumer experience to the next level. You will identify ways to continue to differentiate with a focus on consumer needs and capitalize on opportunities to continually improve and grow CarGurus’ innovative used car shopping experience. The engineering leader will partner with the product teams to identify the highest potential product improvements and new consumer opportunities. Additional collaboration across the engineering organization will be critical for success and optimizing results.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead and inspire several growing engineering teams in development of world class software for our Consumer Platform
- Collaborate with other departments to define new products. This will include our Digital Retail, B2B, Wholesale, Analytics, Infrastructure, Product, Information Security, etc.
- Work closely with engineering leaders to architect, design, and improve our core technology platforms
- Prioritize team efforts and plan projects in a highly iterative environment
- Plan, design, and implement product prototypes to production to validate market opportunities. Our engineering teams work closely with Product and Design to make sure we have our priorities aligned
- Coach and mentor engineering directors, managers, and IC’s across the department. Our Consumer Engineering function has north of 40 members of the group
- Actively partner with Talent Acquisition to continue to hire and retain top talent across engineering, product and other departments
Who You Are:
- 15+ years of Software Engineering Experience
- 8+ years of team leadership experience
- Ability to lead the SDLC: development, testing, and delivery of multiple software products
- Ensure all developed products meet communicated needs/goals.
- Capable of providing mentorship for engineering directors, managers, and leads.
- Proven experience analyzing data to determine trends to prevent engineering problems
- Experienced with building scalable websites (e-commerce) or large-scale applications.
- Knowledge of SEO, Email Marketing, Mobile Applications, Search Infrastructure and/or Conversion Optimization a major plus
- Understanding of how to build high volume, distributed back-end services with latest technologies
- Bachelors and/or advanced degrees in a related STEM field (preferred)
Our Current Tech Environment: Java, Spring, Hibernate, Javascript, React/Redux, HTML, CSS, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Kafka
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