VP of Engineering

New York, New York

Grata is the leading private market dealmaking platform. We make it easy to find, research, and engage with private companies. Our platform has the most comprehensive, accurate, and searchable proprietary data on private companies, their financials, and their owners.

We help leading investors (PE/growth), investment bankers, management consultants, and corporate development teams discover and win more deals. Grata has over 700 customers and has been widely recognized as the market leader by G2, PE Wire, and more.

We are looking for a Vice President of Engineering to join our team! We are looking for someone who has led multiple engineering teams and is excited about building a cutting edge platform for private market dealmaking. With strong engineering leadership, great system designs and product vision, they will accelerate Grata and drive product growth.

Grata is a hybrid company, which means our employees work from our NYC office (near Bryant Park) on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

At Grata, we will expect you to:

• Drive technical strategy, team design, and product delivery
• Drive operational excellence by establishing clear metrics and efficient lightweight processes 
• Prioritize and balance short and long term engineering investments
• Build, onboard and up-skill top engineers and managers
• Create compelling personalized career paths for engineers on the team
• Partner with Product to develop our long term product strategy and roadmap
• Coordinate work across multiple engineering teams and other groups
• Expand on our collaborative, inclusive engineering culture

What we are looking for:

• Deep experience as an engineering leader of a high growth SaaS startup
• Experience hiring, managing, and training top engineers in an high scale environment
• Experience coaching engineering managers and leads
• Experience managing multiple teams and coordinating high velocity engineering efforts
• Strong technical experience with data/search/distributed technologies/high scale SaaS/etc
• Strong team management skills
• CS / Engineering degree or equivalent work experience
• Based in NYC (or willing to relocate) - we tend to do M, Tu, Th in office and W, F remote

Benefits & Perks:

• Medical, dental, vision plans: we offer plans with 80% coverage of premiums for employees
• Company-sponsored lunch through Grubhub on a weekly basis
• Unlimited PTO policy 
• Flexible Work Location (FWL) policy that allows you to work from home 24 days of the year
• Other benefits: 12 weeks of parental leave, 401k, pre-tax commuter benefits, dog-friendly office

Grata is committed to providing competitive cash compensation and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in New York City, the estimated base salary for this role is $250,000 - $300,000 per year.

Grata is proud to be an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Grata considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Grata is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. 

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. At this time, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa.