VP, Engineering in Winnipeg

Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do. We’re working with well-known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory; we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023.

We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group. We have conviction and strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers.

We are a fully distributed company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time, we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1.

AI is changing how software gets built, shipped, and run. It is increasing the need for sense-making of production software systems. We believe AI will reshape observability itself. Honeycomb created this category, and we want our next engineering leader to help us lead its reinvention.

You’ll join the executive team as a full partner in setting strategy. Our exec team acts as a first team, working closely together to revise our strategy as the world changes. You’ll bring a wealth of experience and an imagination of what’s possible, help sharpen our bets, and decide with your peers the most elegant way forward. Then you’ll shape a strong engineering org to deliver on these decisions.

What You’ll Do

• Shape the strategy. Form your own view of where the product, technology, and market are heading. Bring it to your closest partners: product and the CEO, and to the wider exec team.
• Build alignment at the top. We believe our strength as a company depends on the strength of our exec team. We want you to make our exec team better, and for your first team to be the exec team.
• Help the whole org to make sense of fast change. When the ground moves quickly, people need help understanding what is changing and why.
• Lead a high-performing team into what’s next. You’ll aim that talent at our biggest opportunities and adjust the org’s structure, goals, and ways of working to be continually more effective.
• Lead from technical credibility. You can’t lead an AI era shift without a deep understanding of the ergonomics of the landslide of change underway.

You might be a fit if

• You’ve led engineering through large scale changes in direction, not just growth.
• You’ve shipped software with AI tools yourself within the last 12 months.
• You have a special talent for collaboration and improving executive teams.
• You’re as interested in shaping strategy as in executing it.
• You’ve worked at a larger company, and know what breaks as companies scale.
• You’re comfortable with uncertainty, rapid change, and shaping new bets towards product-market fit.
• You’ve led distributed teams and communicate well in writing and in person.
• You care about developer tools and have good taste in them.
• You share our values.

What You'll Get When You Join The Hive

• A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program.
• Time to recharge with unlimited PTO.
• A distributed-first mindset and culture.
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend.
• Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood.
• Annual development allowance.

Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.

Diversity & Accommodations: We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace—where people of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and abilities are welcomed, valued, and supported.

As an equal opportunity employer, our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback.