Engineering Manager - Lease Market Experience
VTS, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The leading leasing, marketing, and asset management platform taking commercial real estate businesses online.
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Lease Market Experience team, a part of the Technology organization that owns key products relied upon by the largest names in the commercial real estate industry. You’ll be leading a motivated, results-oriented team through the next phase of our business while driving efficient engineering processes and coaching team members.
To thrive in this role, you must have a strong technical background and a proven track record of building, deploying, and maintaining web applications and services. Your experience allows you to dive into technical problems and coach, challenge and lead as needed. You engage in discussions around technical strategy, adeptly manage technical tradeoffs and risks, and ensure alignment with product and business goals. You have a proven ability to recruit and develop talent, further strengthening the team’s capabilities. You have a sense of empathy for the customer and a focus on quality. Effective communication skills are paramount, empowering you to effectively convey ideas, coach, mentor, and educate others.
What you can expect:
- Foster a healthy and collaborative culture that reflects our company and engineering values, and attracts, retains and grows a diverse team.
- Run an agile engineering process that empowers engineers with the context, autonomy, and tools needed to do their best work, and promotes shipping high-quality products efficiently and predictably.
- Jointly own the teams’ execution and delivery of the product roadmap in partnership with the Product Manager
- Work with leadership to identify strategic technology investments required to support business objectives, and ensure those projects are properly prioritized and delivered.
- Partner with our recruiting team to source, recruit and onboard talent to VTS.
- Coach and mentor individual team members, creating a structured environment and feedback loop that supports career development and high engagement.
- Collaborate on cross-functional teams that include product managers, designers, as well as QA
- Applications that deploy multiple times a day and rely heavily on automated testing and CI
- A modern tech stack that includes Ruby on Rails, React, Typescript, Postgres, Kafka, Python, AWS services, terraform as well as a data platform build around Snowflake, dbt, Spark, Python and modern data pipelines
VTS Values & How We Show It:
- Strive for Excellence - We know your potential is unlimited. Take advantage of our executive coaches and our training and career development programs available to all employees!
- Be Customer Obsessed - We’re employee obsessed too! VTS offers competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits (including dental and vision), pre-tax commuter benefits, and a 401(k) plan. Not to mention the fun stuff - monthly happy hours, wellness events, clubs, and team lunches!
- Be Curious - Benefit from a culture that promotes new learning. VTS offers an education stipend to all employees! Move as One - We work in an open floor plan to promote cross-functional collaboration. Take Ownership - Be an owner of the company you’re building with our equity packages. Appreciate the Difference - VTS embraces and celebrates diversity. We understand the importance of a strong work-life balance. We offer a flexible PTO policy, generous family leave program, and more!
About VTS:
VTS is the commercial real estate industry’s only technology company that unifies owners, operators, brokers, and tenants in a single platform to capitalize on opportunities revealed in every square foot of their properties. In 2013, VTS revolutionized the commercial real estate industry’s leasing operations with what is now VTS Lease. Today, the VTS Platform is the largest first-party data source in the industry, transforming how strategic decisions are made and executed by CRE professionals across the globe.With the VTS Platform, consisting of VTS Lease, VTS Market, VTS Activate, and VTS Data, every business stakeholder in commercial real estate is given real-time market information and workflow tools to do their job with unparalleled speed and intelligence. VTS is the global leader, with more than 60% of Class A office space in the U.S., and 12 billion square feet of office, retail, and industrial space is managed through our platform worldwide. VTS’ user base includes over 45,000 CRE professionals and industry-leading customers such as Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, BXP, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE. To learn more about VTS, and to see our open roles, visit www.vts.com.
VTS maintains offices in New York City, London, Toronto, Chicago, and San Francisco.To learn more about VTS and to see our open roles, visit us at vts.com or follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS), Twitter (@WeAreVTS), or LinkedIn.
About VTS
VTS is revolutionizing commercial real estate. Our mission is to become the industry's modern operating system — the place where deals happen and real-time data comes to life. Over the last 8 years, the VTS Leasing Platform has become the standard for online leasing, centralizing and correcting data for 750+ of the top landlords and helping them automate the manual aspects of the leasing process. To date, 12B+ square feet of commercial real estate is managed on our Leasing Platform globally. With this coverage, we created VTS Market, the first, integrated online marketing platform and marketplace, built on top of our Leasing Platform. As a result of bringing the marketing and leasing process online, VTS has built the largest network of real-time data in commercial real estate. With our offering called VTS Data, we provide the industry's only forward-looking view on the market.