Head of Engineering, Public Sector

Come be part of the team that is delivering the most ambitious computer vision and large language model products in the US Government. Scale is looking for an experienced engineering leader for its Public Sector Engineering, Product, and Design team to drive the development of innovative new products for our customers in the public sector. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, design, sales, marketing, customer success, and operations to take artificial intelligence/machine learning products from pain point to fully-deployed solutions, and coordinate with company leadership on roadmap strategy and priorities. You will be responsible for driving roadmap definition, and execution; using both qualitative customer & Scaler feedback and quantitative metrics & KPI's to guide decisions and measure success.

The ideal candidate is someone who is inspired to build great AI/ML products for the public sector and contribute to our commercial product development. They should create a team culture of amplifying Scale and create strong advocates within the peer teams. They should have experience leading a high-performance engineering team (software and machine learning); identifying what the company needs and with achieving outcomes which combine to push the company forward. They should have deep familiarity with the federal world and be able to clearly articulate gaps and a product strategy to fill them.

Day to day:

• 25% technical execution/coordination, resolution of execution issues
• 20% strategic product planning
• 20% technical product planning, design, and coding
• 35% managing a growing team

You will:

• Set the direction of your team; anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges via thoughtful planning, both from a personnel and technical standpoint
• Converting customer conversations into actionable product strategy
• High quality execution. Responsible for accelerating velocity for our federal org
• Technically impressive, breaks down product strategy and customer asks into correct technical building blocks, mentors the team’s technical output and calls BS.
• Working with the cross functional roles (business development, engineering, marketing, finance)
• Unblocking and pushing the team to hit deadlines
• Comfortable with navigating hard-to-follow (or non-existent) processes and comfortable identifying processes which aren't working and changing them
• Uses data for decision making
• Growing the team/setting up for success
• Adept at navigating different contacts to help provide clarity in priorities and execution scope
• Fosters a collaborative, ambitious, and outcome-driven culture that embodies our values.
• Partner with our People team to attract and engage top talent
• Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members

Ideally you'd have:

• TS Clearance minimum, ideally TS/SCI
• 5+ years track record in engineering management and leadership positions
• Track record of product development in the federal environment. Candidates should be able to cite products in production that they developed and rolled out.
• Deep familiarity with the federal space and ideally, prior military or US government service
• Experience building products with some AI/ML components
• Ability to commute into one of our hubs in Washington, DC or San Francisco, CA