Position Overview

The Vice President of Software Engineering is a senior executive responsible for defining and executing Diligent's software engineering vision across multiple product portfolios within the Technology Centre of Excellence. This leader provides strategic direction for global engineering organizations, ensuring the successful delivery of secure, scalable, AI-enabled products while driving operational excellence, innovation, and sustainable business growth.

The VP partners closely with Executive Leadership, Product, UX, Security, Data, and Customer organizations to establish long-term technology strategy, investment priorities, and organizational capability. They are accountable for building a world-class engineering culture, developing senior engineering leaders, and ensuring engineering execution consistently delivers customer and commercial outcomes.

As Diligent continues its transformation into an AI-first organization, the VP will champion the adoption of AI across engineering, product development, and internal operations—identifying strategic opportunities that improve customer value, accelerate delivery, increase engineering productivity, and strengthen competitive differentiation.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the long-term engineering vision and organizational strategy in alignment with Diligent's corporate objectives.
• Lead multiple global engineering organizations through Senior Directors and Directors, ensuring high-performing, scalable leadership across regions.
• Partner with Executive Leadership, Product, UX, Security, and Data leaders to shape product strategy, technology investments, and portfolio priorities.
• Own engineering execution across multiple product portfolios, ensuring predictable delivery, operational excellence, quality, security, and customer satisfaction.
• Drive organizational transformation through AI-first thinking, embedding AI capabilities into engineering practices, software development, customer experiences, and business operations.
• Establish technology governance, engineering standards, architectural direction, and operational metrics across the organization.
• Build and develop exceptional engineering leadership teams through coaching, succession planning, and talent development.
• Lead strategic workforce planning, organizational design, and global scaling initiatives.
• Oversee significant operating budgets, vendor relationships, investment planning, and resource allocation to maximize business outcomes.
• Foster an inclusive, innovative, and customer-centric engineering culture built on accountability, collaboration, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Represent Engineering at executive leadership forums, board-level discussions where appropriate, customer engagements, and strategic partner relationships.
• Anticipate emerging technologies, market trends, and competitive developments, translating them into actionable engineering and business strategies.

Required Experience / Skills

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering leadership experience, including leading large global engineering organizations through multiple leadership layers.
• Proven success leading engineering organizations supporting enterprise SaaS products at significant scale.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing enterprise technology strategies aligned with business growth objectives.
• Strong executive leadership experience partnering with Product, Design, Security, Customer Success, Sales, and executive stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of modern software engineering, cloud-native architectures, platform engineering, DevOps, AI/ML technologies, and engineering operational excellence.
• Proven experience leading organizational transformation, including AI adoption and large-scale technology modernization initiatives.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience balancing customer outcomes, engineering investment, operational efficiency, and financial performance.
• Exceptional executive communication and influencing skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around strategic priorities.
• Experience managing large operating budgets, organizational planning, and executive-level business planning.
• Passion for building diverse, inclusive, high-performing engineering cultures while developing future engineering leaders.
• Strategic thinker who thrives in complex, fast-moving environments and consistently delivers measurable business impact.

 

About Us

Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster. 

At Diligent, we're building the future with people who think boldly and move fast.  Whether you're designing systems that leverage large language models or part of a team reimaging workflows with AI, you'll help us unlock entirely new ways of working and thinking.  Curiosity is in our DNA, we look for individuals willing to ask the big questions and experiment fearlessly - those who embrace change not as a challenge, but as an opportunity.  The future belongs to those who keep learning, and we are building it together.  At Diligent, you’re not just building the future - you’re an agent of positive change, joining a global community on a mission to make an impact.

Learn more at diligent.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook

 

 

What Diligent Offers You 

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
• We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. 

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C.,  London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, Singapore and Sydney.   To foster strong collaboration and connection, this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations, you will be expected to work onsite at least 50% of the time. We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.

 

We are a drug free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Diligent's EEO Policy and Know Your Rights. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at recruitment@diligent.com.

At Diligent, we recognize the value of a diverse global workforce. Visa sponsorship may be available for select positions based on business needs and specific role requirements. Sponsorship decisions are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and eligibility should not be assumed for all opportunities.

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