VP, Software Development

$200,000 - $260,000 / year

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships.

Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success.

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

We are in search of the world’s most creative and experienced engineering leaders. We embrace entrepreneurs as well as those who come from more established organizations. As a key member of the product development leadership team, you will lead the development and technical strategy for our enterprise products. Partnering with product management and sales, you will interact with strategic customers designing innovative solutions that meet their business needs.

You will lead multiple teams of amazing managers and engineers, influence many others and provide leadership on design and architecture, strategy, and technology approaches. We expect you to be an accomplished leader, have strong technical experience and deep knowledge in one or more areas of distributed systems and enterprise web delivery platforms. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success and FUN and you will be adding your creativity and energy to it. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make an impact in your career.

If you love technology, leadership, being on the frontline of technical innovation, and are looking for a creative, fun and friendly workplace where you get to develop software that will transform the insurance industry, we would love to get in touch with you.

Core Requirements and Responsibilities:

1. Effectively manage relationships (up, down, across) and able to roll-up their sleeves to get the job done
2. Present to executive leadership effectively through verbal and written communication
3. Influence across boundaries and at all levels of the organization
4. Think strategically to help drive features and services for short and long-term growth
5. Create a fun, fast paced, motivating and rewarding environment for their teams and the organization
6. Attract, build and retain a highly engaged and capable development teams that can deliver on our technology and business strategies
7. Think end-to-end by connecting all the pieces of the business (development, product management, QA, operations, etc.) to deliver the features to delight the customer while leveraging all available assets
8. Provide strong people management: attracting, retaining, inspiring and growing individuals; demonstrate a passion for people development and mobility
9. Creatively turn problems and solutions on their heads to come up with better designs, better technical solutions, better products
10. Closely follow industry trends and the open source community

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

1. Makes decisions across the product that help long-term maintainability, reuse, security and performance
2. Hunger to learn new concepts, new technologies, and be exposed to/adopt new ideas
3. Have kept their knowledge of development technologies and methods sharp and care deeply about developing solid code
4. Communicate effectively cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering effort
5. Self-motivated and excellent problem-solvers
6. Driven to improve, personally and professionally
7. Mentor and inspire others to raise the bar for everyone around them
8. Collaborate with their peers, designing pragmatic solutions
9. Effectively lead and manage change within their area of responsibility as well as across the business
10. Operate best in a fast-paced, flexible work environment
11. Have a cooperative, collaborative, open and flexible mindset

Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you’d like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.