Head of Engineering

About Cumulus

Cumulus is a Quality Management System (QMS) that ensures critical construction and maintenance activities are done right the first time, every time. By integrating AI-powered workflows and connected IoT devices, the Cumulus QMS improves the productivity and quality of critical work, such as bolt tightening, welding, and pressure testing.

To date, Cumulus has been used to manage over 15,000,000 work completions across industries such as energy, construction, manufacturing, semiconductors, data centers, transportation, chemicals, renewables, and more. In addition to improving safety and sustainability, our technology also has been proven to reduce costs for quality control and data review by over 60%.

Cumulus’s transformative technology has been widely recognized in the industry, including the following awards and honors:

• 2023 Built Worlds Americas Summit Demo Day Winner for Cumulus AI
• 2022 Built Worlds Maverick Awards winner for Cumulus CEO Matthew Kleiman
• 2021 Built Worlds Smart Jobsites 50 Leader List
• 2020 IoT Breakthrough “IoT Startup of the Year” award
• 2019 CNBC Upstart 100 list

Role Overview

The Head of Engineering reports directly to the CTO and operates alongside peer leaders, including the Architect and the Head of Platform, each of whom also reports to the CTO. Each peer role carries a clearly defined scope and sphere of authority. This structure is designed to give the CTO leverage across the organization by ensuring that technical strategy, engineering execution, and platform reliability are each owned by a dedicated leader with full accountability in their domain.

The Head of Engineering owns execution. Where the Architect defines what Cumulus is building toward technically, and the Head of Platform owns how it is delivered and operated, the Head of Engineering owns how the teams build: the people, the process, and the pace. You are responsible for growing and running high-performing engineering squads that ship the product roadmap predictably, sustainably, and with craft.

This is a builder's role. You will grow the team, set the operating rhythm, and make sure great work ships without burning people out. You will work closely with Scrum Masters to eliminate execution blockers, partner with Product to translate the roadmap into deliverable sprint work, and build the leadership bench that allows the engineering organization to scale. You do not own architecture decisions, but you bring technical judgment to execution decisions and hold the team to high engineering standards.

Responsibilities

Team Building and People Leadership

• Run full hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and performance cycles across the engineering organization.
• Build a leadership bench of squad leads and senior engineers who can run their own teams.
• Create and protect a culture that ships great work without burning out: psychological safety, clear expectations, sustainable pace, and room to grow.
• Set high standards for delivery and professional growth, and hold the team to them with fairness and consistency.
• Own career development conversations and performance management for all direct reports.

Delivery Execution and Operating Rhythm

• Own the delivery cadence across squads: sprint planning, demand-versus-capacity planning, predictable execution, and transparent status to the CTO and leadership.
• Work with Scrum Masters to identify and eliminate execution blockers: process, dependencies, resourcing, and coordination friction that slow the team down.
• Balance roadmap commitments against reactive work (customer tickets, live incidents, technical debt) so planned initiatives are not repeatedly crowded out.
• Run an agile environment with tight feedback loops, iterative delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Own delivery…