Title: VP of Engineering
Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid)
Reporting: Reporting to the CEO/Founder
Company Description
Scorability is passionate about making the lives of college coaches easier through a more efficient and successful recruiting process. Coaches at every level and in every sport use our software to discover, evaluate, and recruit the right players for their programs. Student athletes benefit from a more direct and transparent process led by coaches who can actually recruit them, helping avoid wasted time, effort, and money on unnecessary services.
Responsibilities
As our VP of Engineering, you will lead Scorability’s engineering team to build and scale solutions that drive customer adoption, satisfaction, and long-term value. In this strategic, hands-on leadership role, you will drive the data and platform architecture behind our intelligent, user-friendly platform that improves the recruiting journey for athletes and club, high school, and college coaches.
- Build and be responsible for all aspects of the engineering and product functions acting as both a hands-on and strategic partner
- Lead the engineering team as player-coach and act as a bridge to the leadership team, ensuring open and clear communication on priorities and assignment of responsibilities
- Oversee the product roadmap delivery and timeline, including development, infrastructure, and technology selection
- Ensure platform scalability, performance, stability, and compliance at scale
- Lead technical decision-making and shape long-term strategy in partnership with leadership team peers
- Collaborate on product roadmap, investor meetings, and partnerships
- Always lead the continued enhancement of our software with a customer-first mindset
- Provide analysis of engineering performance while building product performance and usage tracking tools to promote a culture of metrics-driven decision-making
- Serve as a trusted technical partner to key business leaders in Sales, Marketing, Product, Operations, and People
- Lead product insights reporting to the Executive Team, Board of Directors, and investors
- Thrive in lean environments; set a high bar for a customer-first mentality and technical rigor while operating with agility and ownership
- Partner with People team to hire and maintain top engineering talent
- Occasional travel possible
Is this you?
- 8+ years of experience in a Sr. Mid-Level or higher role within a high-growth SaaS organization
- Experience in an early-stage startup strongly preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering preferred (or comparable experience)
- Proven experience leading the product/engineering function in high-growth environments
- Experience as a lead engineer with a demonstrated ability to roll up sleeves and lead by example
- Strong track record of effectively managing and motivating a team of high-performing engineers
- Excellent communication, problem-solving and analytical skills, with ability and experience in presenting to executives, boards, and investors
- Strategic mindset with a history of fast action, accountability, and attention to detail
- Stays up to date on the latest and most recent technologies
- Experience in or understanding of our tech stack strongly preferred
#Perks
- Stock options: become a shareholder and participate in the value we create together
- Flexible time off and generous holidays for a good quality of life
- Health benefits including medical, dental, and vision, 100 percent paid for employees
- Give back with opportunities to serve through our Community Service Program