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 robust 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

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