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Ndustrial is a Series B venture-backed startup based in Raleigh, NC that has delivered $100M+ in energy savings for food producers, storage operators, and retailers across the cold chain. The company's Nsight™ platform integrates existing systems to turn energy into a measurable production input, deploying in weeks and verifying savings in real time without disrupting operations. Trusted by industry leaders like Lineage, Americold, and ABB, Ndustrial is revolutionizing how the cold chain uses energy for a more sustainable future.
The VP of Engineering is a key member of Ndustrial's leadership team, reporting directly to the CEO. This role is responsible for leading, developing, and scaling the engineering organization while ensuring the team delivers against the company's most important priorities. The VP will create clarity and accountability across the organization, develop and motivate a high-performing team, and ensure engineering priorities and execution are closely aligned with company objectives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead, coach, develop, and motivate a high-performing engineering team with clear expectations, ownership, and accountability
- Translate company objectives into clear engineering priorities and ensure team understanding of what they're working toward and why it matters
- Manage team and individual performance against defined objectives, providing feedback, coaching, and addressing performance issues
- Champion an AI-forward engineering culture, ensuring the team effectively uses AI-assisted tools across design, development, testing, and problem-solving
- Bring firsthand experience navigating the early-stage startup lifecycle, knowing when to introduce structure and process versus moving quickly with imperfect information
- Partner with Product and other leaders to identify opportunities to incorporate AI into the platform and deliver customer value
- Provide strong technical judgment across architecture, cloud infrastructure, SaaS development, AI-enabled capabilities, security, reliability, and scalability
- Own engineering execution, balancing speed, quality, scalability, technical health, and available resources
- Create visibility into engineering priorities, progress, capacity, risks, and tradeoffs for the CEO and leadership team
- Serve as an active member of the leadership team, contributing to company strategy, priorities, organizational decisions, and growth beyond engineering
- Build strong partnerships across Product, Sales, Customer Success, Operations, and other functions
- Drive decisions and execution in an environment with ambiguity, changing priorities, and limited resources
- Build a culture that reflects what motivates startup talent: ownership, autonomy, urgency, collaboration, accountability, and meaningful impact
The company values Teamwork, Customer First, Quality, and Curiosity. Ndustrial offers a flexible hybrid work environment in a modern, open office in Downtown Raleigh, with a dog-friendly workplace and a commitment to inclusive, communicative, innovative culture.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience with significant engineering leadership and people management experience
- Proven engineering leadership experience within an early-stage, venture-backed technology company, with firsthand experience building and leading teams through periods of rapid growth, changing priorities, ambiguity, and organizational evolution
- Proven track record building strong engineering teams, developing talent, setting clear expectations, and holding individuals and teams accountable for results
- Strong technical foundation with experience overseeing modern cloud-based SaaS products
- Experience leading teams that use modern AI-assisted development tools and/or build AI-enabled product capabilities
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
