Head Of Engineering

Position: Head Of Engineering

Location: Mumbai

️ Working Days: 3 days WFH + 2 days in office

Experience Required: 10+ years

Head of Engineering - US Products

Reports to: Co-Founder & CTO

Location: Mumbai-based, with readiness to travel to the US as needed

Scope: US Products only

Key Responsibilities

Product & Technical Decisions

• Own build/no-build decisions for US Products in partnership with Product Owners — what gets built, in what order, and why
• Own technical architecture and platform decisions for the US product line
• Lead the practical use of AI across development and testing to improve delivery speed while maintaining engineering quality
• Work with the Generative AI team to lead implementation of integrations in US Products, with a clear understanding of model capabilities, limitations, and evaluation
• Partner with the Co-Founder/CTO on product vision and strategy; translate that vision into an executable roadmap

Team Building & Leadership

• Hire, structure, and lead a lean, hungry US Products engineering team from the ground up
• Demonstrate sustained team-building: recruit, onboard, and retain engineers, prioritizing demonstrated ability to deliver efficiently using AI over years of development experience alone
• Build a hiring pipeline and use approved budget proactively, keeping the team lean and focused on product outcomes
• Structure the team to own US Product Development and support go-lives, with clear ownership and efficient use of AI across development and testing

Enterprise Readiness

• Lead the product to enterprise-grade standards, including security and compliance (e.g. SOC 2, data privacy, access controls)
• Own the security/compliance roadmap and coordinate with legal and compliance stakeholders as needed

Customer-Facing Architecture

• Travel to meet enterprise client IT teams, business stakeholders, and product users to understand their needs and technical constraints
• Use access to the right customers and stakeholders provided by us to uncover actionable insights and translate them into product and architecture decisions
• Collect feedback directly from customers and work with Product Owners to turn it into product improvements, validating the impact with users
• Represent technical capability directly to enterprise partners

What Success Looks Like (First 6-12 Months)

• A defined US Products roadmap owned jointly with Product Owners, with clear build/no-build rationale documented
• A lean, effective US Products engineering team delivering measurable improvements in speed and quality through the use of AI
• A functioning hiring pipeline that identifies engineers with strong ownership and demonstrated ability to deliver efficiently using AI
• Enterprise security/compliance milestones met or on a committed timeline (e.g. SOC 2 readiness, access control implementation)
• Substantive working relationships with relevant enterprise client stakeholders (e.g. JD Power), including in-person visits, with insights reflected in product priorities
• A technical architecture that demonstrably accounts for enterprise scale requirements, with product improvements informed and validated by direct customer feedback

Requirements & Qualifications

• 10+ years in engineering, with 4+ years in a senior leadership role owning both technical architecture and team-building from a small base
• Demonstrated track record of building and retaining an engineering team from the ground up, including active hiring — not just managing an existing team
• Strong understanding of Generative AI fundamentals, with hands-on experience implementing and evaluating these capabilities in production
• Demonstrated use of AI in development to improve delivery efficiency, with the judgement to review and validate AI-generated code
• Direct experience taking a product to enterprise-grade readiness, including security and compliance standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent)
• Experience working directly with enterprise clients' technical/IT teams and product users — able to extract insights and translate feedback into product and architecture decisions
• Ready to travel to the US as needed for client engagements
• Strong product sense — able to partner with Product Owners and a Co-Founder/CTO on what to build, not just how

Nice to Have

• Prior entrepreneurship experience
• Prior experience in automotive tech, dealer/OEM software, or a comparable B2B enterprise SaaS environment
• Experience scaling a product line specifically for large enterprise accounts (not just SMB/mid-market)
• Existing relationships in the automotive OEM or dealer technology space