VP Product Engineering

Our client is a UK business software company. To lead the engineering teams that build and ship our client's sector SaaS products, translating product strategy into a technical roadmap and delivering it through the "One Stack" Agentic SDLC. You will drive a 6x delivery performance multiplier, uphold the highest standards of quality, security and user experience, and ensure product engineering initiatives are executed on time and aligned to customer and business needs.

We are seeking an experienced and visionary VP of Product Engineering to lead the development and delivery of our client's sector SaaS products. You will lead a talented team of engineers, define the technical roadmap for your products, and own the end-to-end execution of product engineering initiatives, from ideation through to deployment and ongoing optimisation. You are a strategic technologist with a strong hands-on engineering background and proven delivery leadership.

You partner closely with Product Management, Design and cross-functional stakeholders to turn product requirements into achievable engineering goals, and with the Platform Architecture & Engineering and Reliability & Technology Operations functions to build on the shared platform fabric and agentic engineering practices, rather than duplicating them. You are accountable for the quality, scalability, security and user experience of everything your teams ship.

. Team Leadership & Technical Vision Team Leadership & Mentorship:
Lead and manage the product engineering team, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. Technical Vision &

Roadmap:

Define the technical vision and roadmap for your products, aligning them with the overall business strategy, the enterprise architecture blueprint, and customer needs. Continuous Improvement Culture:
Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging experimentation, learning, and knowledge sharing within the product engineering team. Product Development Lifecycle & Delivery Cross-Functional Translation:
Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate product requirements into technical specifications and achievable engineering goals. End-to-End Delivery:
Drive the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality execution. Engineering Best Practice:
Oversee the implementation of best practices in software development, quality assurance, and release management to ensure efficient and scalable product engineering processes. Delivery Management:
Prioritise tasks, manage resources, and deliver results within tight deadlines, using Agile development methodologies and modern product engineering tools and practices. Agentic Engineering & 6x Velocity Agentic SDLC Adoption:
Adopt and build on the "One Stack" Agentic SDLC within your product teams, leveraging AI agents to automate the toil of testing, deployment, and remediation. 6x Performance Multiplier:
Evolve your engineering teams' capabilities and ways of working to unlock a 6x improvement in delivery performance and quality, in line with the enterprise SDLC transformation. Role-Modelling Quality:
Use your product engineering team as a benchmark for engineering excellence, demonstrating the power of agentic, AI-augmented workflows in a high-stakes commercial environment. Technology & Market Insight Emerging Technology Scanning:
Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and the competitive landscape to identify opportunities for innovation and differentiation. External Partner Management:
Manage relationships with external technology partners, vendors, and contractors to leverage external…