The VP of Engineering (VP-E) is the senior executive responsible for engineering organization leadership, team management, delivery operations, and engineering culture. Sometimes called Head of Engineering, Director of Engineering, or Engineering Manager at smaller scale. The VP-E owns performance management, hiring and onboarding for engineering roles, and ensuring the engineering team delivers product effectively against business requirements. The role typically becomes necessary when the engineering team grows past 8-15 engineers and a single technical leader (often the founder CTO) can no longer effectively manage all engineering people-management responsibilities while also doing technical leadership work. It is the oper...