VP of Technology & Innovation

About the Company

Our client, Swooped, is a rapidly growing B2B SaaS company with over 20 years of expertise in fleet management technology. They serve as the fleet intelligence platform for safety and operations teams, empowering construction, utilities, field services, and last-mile delivery businesses. Swooped helps these businesses transition from siloed data using point solutions to one simple, powerful platform, providing customers with unprecedented insight to improve safety, establish next-generation operational efficiency, and make intelligent decisions.

Key Responsibilities for the VP of Technology & Innovation

Strategic Planning

• Collaborate with product leadership to assess optimal technology and architecture decisions to meet product and go-to-market requirements.
• Focus on the short-term and long-term vision of the product, delivering high-quality customer experiences while balancing technical initiatives and new feature builds.
• Develop and implement comprehensive IT strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Ensure technology investments drive competitive advantage and long-term value.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to determine their potential impact on the organization.

Innovation & Engineering Management

• Help build and scale multiple software engineering teams and QA teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor and develop team members, including hiring, training, and performance evaluation.
• Manage the software engineering department's budget, resource allocation, and project prioritization aligned with the product roadmap and strategy.
• Provide technical guidance and direction for the engineering teams.
• Promote healthy design patterns and architectural philosophy across development teams.
• Guide the architecture and engineering teams in the continual evolution of architecture principles and best practices.
• Drive the use of AI tools across the Engineering & QA teams.

Architecture Design and Management

• Facilitate technical debates around design options and help steer the team to the best near-term and long-term solutions.
• Help architects clearly articulate and document design patterns to clarify the work for the engineering team.
• Develop and manage enterprise software application architecture and infrastructure.
• Develop and manage the technological infrastructure, including organizational information systems, IT support, software applications, etc.
• Ongoing assessment of technology and architecture – reviewing technical debt to ensure the application hosting environment.
• Identify new technologies and opportunities to improve performance, reliability, and cost of the application hosting environment.

IT and Business Systems

• Implement and maintain critical IT systems, including ensuring application system security, disaster recovery systems, and cybersecurity processes and procedures.
• Build vendor relationships, purchase new technology, software, and equipment as needed, and manage budgets.
• Identify new technologies and opportunities to improve systems and processes.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience leveraging Microsoft Azure and AWS for enterprise SaaS application hosting.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft 365 Administration and Security Best Practices.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Database management preferred.
• Experience with building enterprise-grade stream-processing platforms leveraging modern technologies like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, or Azure Eventhubs.
• Experience managing software engineering organizations that include web application and mobile application engineering and quality assurance engineering.
• Responsibility for the cybersecurity of a software company with a cloud-hosted solution, helping organizations navigate SOC 2 compliance.
• Experience managing the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans of an IoT platform.
• Knowledge of best practices and experience with building B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products. (Hardware product experience is a plus).
• Strong knowledge and extensive experience with enterprise software architecture design.
• 8+ years of IT leadership experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Telematics, Video Telematics and/or fleet technology experience preferred.

The values you’ll live by as part of the team at Swooped:

• Customer-Obsessed: Customers are at the center of everything. When they win, the team wins. The organization is committed to being more than just a vendor; it is a committed partner.
• No-Box Innovation: Embraces bold ideas and builds what hasn’t been built before to drive customers and the organization forward.
• Growth Through Friction: Challenges inefficiencies, drives innovation, pushes for a stronger business, and breaks through limits.
• Trust Through Action: Leads with transparency, acts with integrity, and stays committed to always doing right by those the team works with.
• Own It: Every action matters, so make it count. Team members are accountable for their work, own their outcomes, and always strive to make a positive difference.

Location

This VP of Technology & Innovation role is remote, with the ideal candidate residing within the Eastern & Central Time Zones.

Benefits

Swooped offers competitive compensation, commensurate with experience, including a base salary of $260,000-$280,000 plus bonus. Outstanding benefits are provided to simplify employees' lives and show appreciation for their contributions. The organization provides company-subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance for all full-time employees, a 401K with a 4% company contribution, and Flexible PTO.

Key skills/competency

• Strategic Planning
• Technology Leadership
• SaaS Architecture
• Cloud Hosting (Azure, AWS)
• Engineering Management
• Cybersecurity
• IT Systems Management
• Innovation
• Team Building & Development
• Fleet Management Technology