VP - Software Product Engineering (HealthTech)

Summary role description:

Hiring for a Vice President – Product Engineering for a premier HealthTech platform provider, with market leadership position in US Healthcare.

Company description:

Our client is a US HealthTech platform provider catering to major HealthCare ecosystem players in the US, including Federal and state health agencies. Their digitally powered suite of software products and solutions support advanced claims processing, clinical and provider solutions, and quality and compliance services. Recognized by leading business journals and industry associations as one of the fastest-growing private companies, our client is currently strengthening this high-growth trajectory with expansion in the product engineering leadership team.

Role details:

• Title / Designation: VP – Product Engineering
• Reporting Manager: CTO
• Location: Chennai, India

Role & responsibilities:

• Lead the strategic direction, architecture, and execution of the product engineering organization, encompassing user experience, user productivity, scale, security, performance, platforming excellence, innovation, and AI / ML integration / automation, data and information integration.
• Own, define, design and execute upon the vision and roadmap for Product Engineering Excellence organization ensuring alignment with overall business goals of accelerated and high-quality product feature development, maintenance, in collaboration with Product, Design, Marketing, and Customer Success, Data Science teams, leadership.
• Build and scale global engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and accountability.
• Establish and monitor engineering KPIs for velocity, quality, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Drive continuous improvement in development processes, tools, and infrastructure.
• Represent engineering in executive forums, communicating strategy and progress to stakeholders.
• Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion across the engineering organization.

Candidate requirements:

• Seasoned leader with 20+ years of end-to-end software engineering experience with enterprise-grade software products / SaaS platforms and proven experience in building high-performing engineering teams, preferably with some experience in HealthTech
• Demonstrably strong technical foundation, product mindset, Agile leadership, people management (including coaching, mentoring and fostering career growth of team members
• Ensure high utilization, and healthy profit margins.
• Bachelor’s / Master’s in Computer Science / Software Engineering – desirable.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native development, including cloud platforms (AWS preferred), microservices architecture, containerization, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD
• Exposure to data architecture, analytics platforms, and AI/ML integration.
• Strategic thinking, direction-setting, priority-alignment influencing skills of the highest order
• High-energy, assertiveness, organization / self-governance, goal-orientation, and drive.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.

Selection process:

• Interview by CTO
• Interview by MD
• HR discussions