Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of engineering: our own Emily Nakashima , formerly director of engineering (formerly manager, formerly engineer). First, I’d write a post if we had hired a new VP of engineering, so I should write one about having grown one from within.

Engineering 52

Engineering Part-Time VPE Policies Performance 52

Battery Ventures

APRIL 8, 2019

If your startup is growing, you’re hiring. And if you’re hiring senior-level talent, you probably need an outside recruiter. Few in-house recruiters have the expertise or network that a professional, third-party recruiter offers. However, there’s good news: The right recruiter does much more than hire someone.

Part-Time VPE 40

Part-Time VPE Recruiting Fractional VPE Fractional CTO 40

Battery Ventures

MARCH 1, 2019

I once worked with a first-time CEO who needed to hire a VP of sales. He wanted to take charge of the hiring process—then I learned he was preparing by Googling “How to interview VP’s of sales.”. As a recruiter, I see too many companies jump into interviewing candidates before they know what they want.

Part-Time VPE 55

Part-Time VPE Weak Development Team Culture Recruiting 55

Gitprime

JUNE 11, 2019

Taking on an engineering leadership role can be disorienting for fresh recruits from the engineering ranks and seasoned veterans alike. Hogan spent more than a decade leveling up engineering organizations and growing leaders at companies like Etsy (as an Engineering Director) and Kickstarter (as VP of Engineering).

Coaching 45

Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 45

GreenBar

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He was losing sleep about his company’s challenges arising from: Poor vendor management A hodgepodge of tech that wouldn’t scale Inability to keep up with new leads Stagnant R&D Lack of focus A week later I found myself in a similar conversation, this time with a VP of Engineering looking for an outside perspective.

Organization 59

Organization Technical Review Part-Time VPE Weak Development Team 59

LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. Watch the full panel discussion below. Thank you both so much for joining us today.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Development Engineering 52

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew. The VP liked what I had to say.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If not, you can hire consultants. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

For this piece, I interviewed a select group of successful ML leaders including Sambhus; Lior Gavish , co-founder at Monte Carlo; and Yotam Hadass , VP of engineering at Electric.ai, for their insights. ML recruiting strategy. Recruiting for ML comes with several challenges. Image Credits: Snehal Kundalkar.

Artificial Inteligence 363

Artificial Inteligence Machine Learning Part-Time VPE Recruiting 363

Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

With an eye on the long-term health of our teams, our engineers, and our companies, that latter responsibility is at least as critical as the products we deliver. Our panelists offered their insights into how to mark the continuous journey of a software engineer between the big promotions. We didn’t have anything defined,” he says.

Weak Development Team 45

Weak Development Team Engineering Development Part-Time VPE 45

Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork. Shoup himself has worked as an engineering leader with several companies of various sizes during periods of intense scaling over the last three decades. The job is to help to make as productive as possible the existing people in the team,” he says.

Organization 81

Organization Technology Minimum Viable Product Part-Time VPE 81

taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. Just ask the many software engineers that engage in hack-a-thons every couple of months, only to find their ideas come to life within weeks…now that’s exciting! Public cloud is not cheaper! There, I said it!

Cloud 40

Cloud Part-Time VPE Data Center Technical Review 40