VP of Engineering

About BlastPoint

BlastPoint is a B2B data analytics startup located in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. We give companies the power to engage with customers more effectively by discovering the humans in their data and understanding customer journeys. Serving diverse industries including energy, finance, retail, and transportation, BlastPoint’s Customer Intelligence Platform makes data accessible to business users so they can plan solutions to customer-facing challenges, from encouraging green behavior to managing customers’ financial stress. Founded in 2016 by Carnegie Mellon Alumni, we are a tight-knit, forward-thinking team.

Why You Should Work for Us

• Solve Challenging Problems: BlastPoint’s platform incorporates cutting-edge approaches to geospatial data, psychographic clustering, data enrichment and a dynamic visualization environment, all at scale. We’re working to break new ground by pulling insights from high-dimensional data. And we’re pushing ourselves to try new and better ways to approach every step of our process.

• Have An Impact: Small but mighty, BlastPoint’s growth is due to big companies increasingly trusting us with supporting key decisions using their most sensitive data. What we do positively impacts the lives of millions of Americans (and beyond).

• Make Positive Change in the World: Our solutions reduce paper consumption, help struggling families pay their bills, and promote clean energy. We also offer our platform for free to nonprofits and civic-oriented organizations.

• Employee-Focused Culture: We support the individual needs of our team, offering schedule and work-from-home flexibility, health insurance, 401K, and three weeks of PTO. We also tailor growth opportunities, from skills training to industry conferences.

• Equal Opportunity Employer: BlastPoint is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace, ensuring equal employment opportunities for individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

Our Values

Everybody matters
We beat expectations
Innovation built on a foundation
Cards on the table, always
"The smartest systems from the most
comprehensive data built by the best people”

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Vice President of Engineering to lead, grow, and scale our engineering organization. As VP of Engineering, you will be a key member of the leadership team, responsible for the overall health and output of our engineering function. You will own the delivery of BlastPoint's products, set the technical direction alongside the CEO, and build a high-performing team culture rooted in speed, quality, and collaboration.

The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced startup environments, brings deep experience managing and mentoring software engineering teams, and has a strong technical foundation in data-intensive systems. You will be expected to remove roadblocks, accelerate development velocity, and help us scale from a small, nimble team to a robust engineering organization—all while keeping the scrappy, builder mindset that got us here.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and mentor the engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Define and own the long-term technical strategy and architecture vision, ensuring alignment with company objectives, scalability requirements, and market opportunities.

• Partner with the CEO, CTO, and Product team to translate business strategy into a long-term engineering roadmap with clear milestones and measurable outcomes.

• Own engineering execution: sprint planning, resource allocation, release management, and delivery timelines.

• Recruit, hire, and onboard top engineering talent to scale the team in line with company growth objectives.

• Proactively identify and eliminate operational and technical roadblocks, while anticipating future scalability and architectural constraints to ensure BlastPoint’s platform and engineering processes evolve ahead of company growth.

• Establish and refine engineering best practices, including code review, CI/CD, testing, and incident response.

• Oversee the architecture and technical health of BlastPoint's platform, ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and maintainable.

• Manage cross-functional collaboration between engineering, data science, product, and customer success teams.

• Drive a data-informed engineering culture, using metrics (cycle time, deployment frequency, reliability) to continuously improve output.

• Act as a technical leader in customer-facing contexts when needed, supporting sales engineering, technical due diligence, and customer escalations.

Professional Requirements

• 5+ Years Experience as a VP of Engineering, Engineering Director or similar leadership role, managing software engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and team development. (venture-backed startup preferred)

• Proven track record of scaling engineering organizations at high-growth startups or technology companies (Series A through Series C experience strongly preferred).

• Deep technical background with hands-on experience in Python, cloud infrastructure (AWS required), and building data-intensive applications.

• Experience with AWS services such as SageMaker, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, and S3 in production environments

• Experience leading teams that build and maintain AI/ML or data analytics platforms, data pipelines, or SaaS products that process large-scale datasets.

• Strong understanding of modern software development practices: Agile/Scrum, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, microservices, and containerization.

• Demonstrated ability to improve engineering velocity, remove organizational bottlenecks, and deliver high-quality software on schedule.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders, including the executive team, customers, and investors.

• A growth mindset with a bias for action—comfortable operating in ambiguity, making decisions with imperfect information, and iterating quickly.

• Authorized to work in the United States.

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with machine learning workflows, model deployment, and MLOps tooling.

• Experience with geospatial data, customer analytics, or intelligence platforms.

• Background in regulated industries such as energy, utilities, financial services, or insurance.

• Contributions to open-source projects or a strong public engineering presence (blog, talks, community involvement).

• Willingness to travel domestically for company events (2–4 times per year).

Benefits

• Competitive Salary

• Equity Ownership in BlastPoint

• $500 Home Office Stipend

• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• Work/Life Balance Culture

• 3 Weeks of Paid Vacation

• 10 Paid Holidays

• Unlimited Sick Time

• 401K