Get to Know Us:
It’s fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they’re doing!
At BlackLine, we’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.
Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.
Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.
Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!
Make Your Mark:
The Vice President of Platform, Engineering will report directly to and partner with the CTO as well as partner with other Product line leaders to align the platform strategy and roadmap to the product suite. It is a unique opportunity to drive execution of the technical vision to modernize the technology stack to improve scalability, reliability, operational cost, and engineering productivity. You will be responsible for development of the platform strategy and delivery of platform solutions that enable our data and AI platform, build out common services, while deprecate legacy, and engaging user interfaces for our customers.
You’ll Get To:
As the VP of Platform Engineering:
- Own strategy and planning for the technology platform and product modernization roadmap to drive simplification, innovation, reuse, and scalability.
- Ensure that the technology strategy aligns with the business strategy and use that to set the appropriate short, mid, and long-term priorities for the platform organization.
- Partner closely with the global product teams and identify where platform technology can provide innovative ways of scaling, enhancing client experience, or providing better business outcomes.
- Lead a talented and diverse team of engineers across multiple locations and disciplines, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Be a talent magnet who can recruit, develop, and mentor a world-class technology organization.
- Collaborate with product management, engineering, and field teams to understand the market requirements, customer feedback, and competitive landscape.
- Set a high bar on engineering excellence and drive best practices for architecture, software development, including Agile and other lean model development and testing strategies to accelerate time-to-market and drive.
- Ensure that the entire organization is consistently delivering highly scalable technology solutions and continuously improving them.
- As one of the core leaders in the technology team, play a critical role as the culture carrier-customer centric, business impactful, and proactive across the P&T organization
What You’ll Bring:
Desired outcomes
The successful VP of Platform will have completed the following in the first 12 months:
- Defined a platform strategy, that will improve scale, margin, time to adoption and engineering productivity at high ROI, and related implementation roadmap, including, but not limited to:
- Product modernization strategy as needed to effectively support the product and business strategy.
- Data strategy, that drives step level value and stickiness in the products.
- Development of reusable common services
- Drive the deployment of our next generation UI platform on at least one product to cost effectively improve user experience. Partner with the product team to make this happen.
- Create and fully deploy at least 3 common services including deprecation of the related legacy code and development progress on the next set of services.
- Creation of the data platform that will enable managing mega enterprise data volumes as well as provide a foundation for AI/ ML modeling.
We’re Even More Excited If You Have:
- A bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality platform solutions that meet or exceed customer expectations.
- Expertise in data engineering, cloud computing, microservices architecture, API design, and UI development
- Proficiency in various programming languages, frameworks, tools, and platforms.
- Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to think strategically, creatively, and analytically.
- Passion for learning new technologies and solving complex problems.
Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:
- A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world’s most trusted name in Finance Automation!
- A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It’s a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
- A culture where BlackLiner’s continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.
BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.
Salary Range:
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Pay Transparency Statement:
Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant’s prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.