Vice President of Engineering

Compensation: $195k–$210k base | 25% bonus target

Location: Denver, CO preferred (not required); regular and frequent travel to Denver required

Hiring Priority Tier 1: Critical | Target time-to-fill: 30–60 days

me Quilibrium (meQ) is a clinically validated workforce resilience platform serving Global 2000 and public-sector employers. Combining behavioral science, AI, and personalized digital coaching, meQ helps organizations reduce burnout, strengthen psychological safety, and improve workforce performance at scale.

Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and leading employers across industries, meQ delivers both population-level insights and individualized support through a platform designed for measurable business impact.

We are a mission-driven company that believes resilience is a skill — one that can be learned, measured, and scaled.

meQ is hiring a VP of Engineering to lead and evolve the engineering organization through its next phase of scale, platform maturity, and AI transformation.

This is a team-builder role. You will shape the engineering organization from the ground up: hiring and developing the engineering leadership bench, setting culture and operating standards, and taking full ownership of delivery, compliance, and technical direction. The Head of Data & AI, Principal Architect, and Engineering Manager all report into this role.

meQ is in an active AI transformation, committed to an agent-first development model where AI tooling handles implementation and routine engineering work at scale, and engineers focus on architecture and judgment. The VP of Engineering will own making that transition real across the team.

• Lead a distributed engineering organization spanning product engineering, platform, Dev Ops/SRE, and QA (currently ~25 contributors, with planned growth in 2026).
• Own the delivery operating system: sprint cadences, quality standards, release management, and predictability of customer-facing commitments.
• Partner with the CTO on architecture decisions and build/buy/partner posture across foundation models, vector infrastructure, and analytics.
• Manage and develop the Head of Data & AI, Principal Architect, and Engineering Manager; build a leadership bench that is not dependent on any individual.

• Lead the transition to an agent-first engineering model: AI handles implementation, scaffolding, tests, and routine refactors; engineers focus on architecture and decisions requiring human judgment. Own the cultural and operational shift this requires, not just the tooling.
• Build team-wide fluency in AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Cursor, Git Hub Copilot); establish a clear point of view on where AI tooling accelerates delivery and where human judgment is essential.
• Partner with the Head of Data & AI on AI product features, including retrieval and fine-tuning pipelines and model evaluation infrastructure, ensuring engineering and data capabilities are built as an integrated system.

• First 60 days: take direct ownership of the SOC 2 posture and establish a compliance continuity plan. The previous owner of this function has departed; this is an immediate priority.
• Own day-to-day compliance for the platform: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA-adjacent workforce data, in partnership with the CFO and legal.
• Lead the engineering contribution to the FedRAMP/State
  
  RAMP roadmap required to scale the federal and public-sector business.
• Represent engineering in customer security reviews, security questionnaires, and customer escalation calls.
• Drive technical debt reduction, cross-training, and documented system ownership across the engineering team.
• Run a disciplined engineering operating cadence, including board-level reporting on delivery and compliance.

• 10+ years of progressive engineering leadership in B2B SaaS, including 3+ years as VP Engineering, SVP Engineering, or equivalent at scale.
• Direct, hands‑on experience owning SOC 2 and at least one of: ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP, or State
  
  RAMP compliance posture as engineering owner.
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