VP, Product & Engineering, Coda, FP&A

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🌐 Netherlands, United Kingdom – Remote

🇳🇱 Netherlands – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Unit4

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1980

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Enterprise • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Unit4 is a company that develops and delivers cloud-based enterprise software solutions focused on ERP, HCM, FP&A, Financial Management, and S2C. The solutions are designed to enhance productivity and collaboration within organizations, specifically tailored for people-centered and service-focused institutions like Professional Services, Public Sector, Nonprofit, and Higher Education. Unit4's platform integrates AI to optimize operations across finance, HR, and project management, aiming to improve user experience and organizational agility. Their solutions cater to roles such as CFOs, CHROs, and CIOs, providing them with the tools to drive strategic outcomes, performance, and adaptability within their organizations.

📋 Description

• Own the Product & Engineering organisation for Coda and FP&A end to end, including team, architecture, delivery and roadmap • Report directly to the General Manager of Coda & FP&A • Define and deliver the long-term business strategy with the General Manager • Translate business priorities into product, technology and investment plans • Set engineering strategy and technical direction for Coda and FP&A codebases, mainly Java, C and TypeScript • Lead platform modernisation while protecting service stability and customer confidence • Own product strategy and roadmap based on customer needs, market opportunity and commercial goals • Sponsor strategic customer relationships, key opportunities and business-critical escalations • Collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, Marketing and Finance on customer and commercial outcomes • Lead portfolio investment decisions across customer needs, commercial opportunity, innovation, modernisation, resilience and technical debt • Improve delivery speed and agility while maintaining enterprise reliability • Lead, mentor and grow product and engineering teams of approximately 70 people • Strengthen management layers, hiring plans and career paths • Build succession and talent plans and shape scalable organisational structures and operating models • Define and champion an AI strategy for the product and engineering department • Own operational excellence covering uptime, security, performance and quality • Establish sprint cadence, DORA metrics, quality gates and OKRs • Use customer, product, engineering and operational data to inform priorities and investment decisions • Report transparently on portfolio performance, delivery, platform health and risk • Represent Coda and FP&A in company-wide product and technical leadership discussions and Unit4 executive forums • Engage with key customers on product and architectural topics and escalations

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in engineering leadership • At least 5 years managing engineering managers or multiple teams • Proven ability to own both product and engineering • Experience leading a complex, global Product & Engineering organisation through growth, modernisation and organisational change strongly preferred • Hands-on experience with financial applications required • Startup experience, or equivalent startup-level speed and agility inside a larger organisation • Strong hands-on fluency in Java, C, and TypeScript, or closely comparable languages • Depth to make and defend architecture and technical trade-off decisions • Experience balancing technical debt and maintenance with innovation while protecting platform stability • Hands-on experience applying AI to software engineering at team scale with measurable results • Informed point of view on how AI will change engineering and the product • Strong product instincts and ability to translate customer and market signals into a growth- and revenue-aligned roadmap • Ability to connect product and technology strategy to measurable customer, commercial and business outcomes • Enterprise customer focus, including direct engagement with major accounts, escalations and advisory input • Proven people leadership in hiring, developing and retaining product and engineering talent • Experience building and coaching leadership teams, strengthening succession and creating scalable operating models • Excellent communication skills across technical, business, customer and commercial audiences • Ability to provide executive recommendations, explain trade-offs and influence effectively • Background checks/security clearance may be required for customer projects and sensitive customer data access • Disclosure of right to work, personal identification and work history may be required subject to applicable local laws

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible Leave Paid Time Off policy • Remote working opportunities • Global Wellbeing Days • Growth opportunities • Tools and guidance to support professional development and best work • Talented colleagues, role models and mentors • Sustainability initiatives through the Environmental, Social, and Governance strategy and Act4Good programme • Safe and inclusive working environment • Employee Resource Groups open to all • Potential security clearance/background check handled according to local privacy laws