VP, Engineering (Apps & Solutions)

About League Founded in 2014, League is the leading healthcare consumer experience (CX) platform, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), reaching more than 63 million people around the world and delivering the highest level of personalization in the industry. Payers, providers, and consumer health partners build on League's platform to deliver high-engagement healthcare solutions proven to improve health outcomes. League has raised over $285 million in venture capital funding to date, powering the digital experiences for some of healthcare's most trusted brands, including Highmark Health, Manulife, Medibank, and Shoppers Drug Mart. Position Summary League is at an inflection point. We're executing a delivery transformation — moving from reactive implementation to an AI-native, industrialized delivery model — at the same time as we're scaling our most strategic enterprise accounts and standing up new delivery capabilities. This VP role is a defining hire: you'll shape how engineering operates at League for the next five years, not just manage what exists today. You are a seasoned engineering leader who leads with AI conviction — someone who doesn't just adopt AI practices but pulls the entire engineering organization forward through them. As VP Engineering, Apps & Solutions at League, you'll set the technical vision, own end-to-end delivery across a 50+ engineer organization, and drive an AI-native engineering transformation that makes League's delivery faster, more reliable, and more predictable. You'll own executive-level relationships with League's most strategic enterprise clients and be a defining voice in how League builds software for the next five years. In this role you will: • Lead the AI-native engineering transformation for Apps & Solutions — drive the adoption of micro-sprint methodologies, agentic capacity management, and AI-informed delivery decisions across all engineering pods; set a target of 40%+ AI-informed delivery decisions across the portfolio and build the operating model that makes it real, not aspirational • Build and scale a world-class engineering organization — lead 50+ engineers through multiple Directors and Engineering Managers, manage through leaders of leaders, develop the EM cohort as a performance management discipline, and build the leadership bench that sustains delivery excellence through growth and change • Set the technical vision and engineering standards — define the architecture direction for Apps & Solutions aligned with League's business objectives and product roadmap; champion CI/CD, observability, cloud-native engineering on GCP, and test automation practices that drive measurable quality improvement across all squads • Own executive-level customer relationships — serve as the senior engineering sponsor for League's most strategic enterprise accounts; own escalation management, delivery confidence, and the executive relationships that determine whether clients stay, expand, or churn • Partner at the company-wide level — work alongside the CTO, CPO, and CDO to shape technology strategy, architecture decisions, and go-to-market execution for enterprise customers; own P&L accountability for engineering delivery across the Apps & Solutions portfolio • Drive cross-functional alignment at the leadership level — work closely with the CPO, CTO, and CDO to ensure engineering decisions are tightly coupled to product roadmap commitments and delivery capacity; own the relationship between engineering velocity and commercial feasibility before commitments leave the building. About you: • 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 8+ years in senior leadership roles managing multiple engineering teams and leaders of leaders • Demonstrated AI conviction — you lead AI-native delivery in practice, not just in aspiration; you have hands-on experience deploying AI-assisted engineering workflows (capacity matching, automated defect classification, PR review, agentic tooling) and a track record of pulling engineering organizations forward on AI adoption • Proven track record scaling engineering organizations of 50+ engineers and delivering complex, enterprise-grade SaaS products in a B2B or B2B2C environment; health tech or enterprise healthcare SaaS experience strongly preferred • Deep technical fluency in cloud-native architectures (GCP preferred), microservices, and full-stack development (Go, React, mobile) — you engage credibly with engineers on architectural trade-offs without losing your strategic altitude • Exceptional executive presence with a demonstrated ability to build trust with C-suite stakeholders and enterprise customers; track record of owning high-stakes customer relationships at the account level, not just in QBRs • Experience working within HIPAA, PIPEDA, or equivalent regulated data environments is required at this level — you understand the compliance obligations that come with handling PHI and have built engineering practic