VP, Product Engineering

Braze

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$284,762–$480,536 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $163,000–$228,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $383k versus about $196k for comparable roles.

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About Braze

Braze is a leading cloud-based customer engagement platform that enables brands to foster human connection with consumers through interactive, real-time, cross-channel marketing.

Braze currently has 105 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $149,000–$235,000 across 104 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · VP, Product Engineering

JOB TITLE: VP, Product Engineering The VP, Product Engineering will lead the Channels division, which serves as the action layer of the Braze technology platform. In this role, you will manage a multi-team organization to oversee the delivery of rich messaging across various channels, including Email, Push, SMS/MMS/RCS, WhatsApp, LINE, In-App Messages, Content Cards, Banners, Landing Pages, Feature Flags, and Webhooks. You will drive technical and product transformations by designing architecture, setting vision, and maturing systems into a modular, efficient technology platform. Key responsibilities include leading the organization through an AI transition to create intelligent, agentic products while leveraging AI-assisted development to improve engineering velocity. You must demonstrate deep credibility in large-scale distributed systems, reliability, and cost efficiency while collaborating with product and design teams to build sophisticated channel products.

What you'll do

  • Lead the Channels division through technical and product transformations for the Braze platform.
  • Manage and grow the engineering organization by hiring, setting goals, and developing team skillsets.
  • Oversee architecture design and technical decisions for large-scale distributed systems.
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to develop sophisticated channel products like Email, SMS, and WhatsApp.
  • Mature existing systems into a more modular and efficient technology platform.
  • Lead the organization's transition to AI-powered products and AI-assisted engineering development.
  • Establish and refine engineering processes and protocols to improve organizational execution.

What we're looking for

  • Several years of experience managing experienced managers with a track record of transformative success.
  • Proven ability to lead software engineering through architecture design, vision setting, and hiring.
  • Deep credibility in large-scale distributed systems, including architecture, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Fluency in AI-assisted engineering and informed perspectives on how AI agents and tooling shape engineering organizations.
  • Experience leading multi-team divisions through technical and product transformations.
  • Ability to operate at different levels of granularity, from high-level vision to detailed technology decisions.
  • Strong process leadership skills to effectively add or remove processes to improve organizational execution.
  • Excellent communication and writing skills to create artifacts that guide the team.

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