Job Description

Who We Are

Escalent is an award-winning data analytics and advisory firm that helps clients understand human and market behaviors to navigate disruption. As catalysts of progress for more than 40 years, our strategies guide the world’s leading brands. We accelerate growth by creating a seamless flow between primary, secondary, syndicated, and internal business data, providing consulting and advisory services from insights through implementation. Based on a profound understanding of what drives human beings and markets, we identify actions that build brands, enhance customer experiences, inspire product innovation and boost business productivity. We listen, learn, question, discover, innovate, and deliver—for each other and our clients—to make the world work better for people.

Why Escalent? Once you join our team you will have the opportunity to...

• Access experts across industries for maximum learning opportunities including Weekly Knowledge Sharing Sessions, LinkedIn Learning, and more.
• Gain exposure to a rich variety of research techniques from knowledgeable professionals.
• Enjoy a remote first/hybrid work environment with a flexible schedule.
• Obtain insights into the needs and challenges of your clients—to learn how the world’s leading brands use research.
• Experience peace of mind working for a company with a commitment to conducting research ethically.
• Build lasting relationships with fun colleagues in a culture that values each person.

As Vice President of Software Engineering, you will lead the engineering strategy, architecture, and delivery of Escalent’s SaaS products. You will be responsible for building scalable, secure, cloud-native applications while accelerating the adoption of Generative AI and intelligent agents across our product portfolio.

This is a highly strategic leadership role that combines modern software engineering with AI innovation. You’ll partner closely with Product, AI & Innovation, UX, Infrastructure and Business Leaders to create differentiated products that delight clients and transform the way research is conducted.

Key responsibilities:

1. Lead multiple software engineering teams responsible for the design, development and delivery of Escalent’s SaaS applications.
2. Define and execute the engineering strategy supporting our next generation of AI-enabled products.
3. Embed Generative AI, intelligent agents, automation, and conversational experiences into our product ecosystem.
4. Drive modern engineering practices including cloud-native architecture, API-first development, CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing and observability.
5. Partner closely with Product Management to deliver high-quality customer-centric releases.
6. Foster a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
7. Build and mentor high-performing engineering leaders and teams across multiple geographies.
8. Ensure platform scalability, security, reliability and operational excellence.
9. Evaluate emerging technologies and translate them into practical business capabilities.
10. Work closely with the executive leadership team to align technology investments with business strategy.

Required skills:

1. 15+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership of large engineering organizations.
2. Proven experience building and scaling enterprise SaaS platforms.
3. Deep expertise in cloud-native application development.
4. Strong understanding of modern software architecture, APIs, distributed systems and microservices.
5. Demonstrated experience incorporating Generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, or machine learning into software products.
6. Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams.
7. Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
8. Passion for developing engineering talent and creating high-performing teams.

Preferred experience:

1. Experience building AI-powered SaaS products.
2. Familiarity with modern AI frameworks, agentic architectures, MCP, RAG, vector databases and LLM orchestration.
3. Experience within research, analytics, data, or information services organizations.
4. Experience with modern frontend frameworks, cloud data platforms, and event-driven architectures.

Explore our Careers and Culture page to learn more about the people behind the brand: https://escalent.co/careers-and-culture/