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# VP, Engineering

- **Company:** Clear Corp.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $325,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Quality, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Web Technologies
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_6037530ca4eefebf32a925bbc2eaef90

## About the Role

* An experienced engineering leader. 15+ years of software engineering experience with deep exposure to large-scale, consumer-facing platforms, and 7+ years managing people managers and leading multi-team organizations.
 * Consumer and platform mindset. Proven success building and scaling consumer-facing products and underlying platforms, ideally with strong business outcomes (revenue, retention, P&L impact).
 * Strong architectural and technical depth. Expertise in modern cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and reliability practices, with practical experience in mobile and web technologies.
 * Comfortable diving deep into system design, data flows, and tradeoffs.
 * Cross-functional leader and collaborator. Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product, Design, Marketing, Operations, and Partnerships. You drive alignment across senior executives, business owners, and technical teams.
 * Partner Focused. Experience working with complex partner ecosystems (e.g., airlines, airports, government agencies, large enterprises) is a plus.
 * Clarity in complexity. Able to create clarity and focus in complex, dynamic contexts. You can zoom into the details when needed, then zoom back out to set direction and priorities.
 * Exceptional communicator. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to non-technical audiences and represent engineering in executive and external forums.
 * Customer-obsessed, growth-minded. Passion for learning new things, driving innovation, and obsessing over the customer experience. You bring a growth mindset, are self-aware about your strengths and areas to develop, and model continuous improvement for your teams.
 * Omnichannel / physical-digital experience. Background in physical-digital product ecosystems (hardware + software, field operations, partner environments) is a plus.

## Description

* Lead the engineering teams responsible for CLEAR Plus, e-gates, EnVe, payments and subscriptions, concierge, and related partner and internal tools.
 * Ensure these systems are reliable, secure, performant, and continually improving.
 * Set the technical strategy.
 * Drive the engineering strategy and architecture for aviation products across physical and digital channels, in close partnership with Product.
 * Establish a cohesive technical vision that enables premium, frictionless experiences across mobile, web, airport touchpoints, and ambassador tools.
 * Build, and lead a high-performing engineering organization.
 * Hire, develop, and manage Directors, Engineering Managers, and Engineers.
 * Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, measurement, and continuous improvement.
 * Create clear career paths and succession plans across.
 * Drive engineering and operational excellence.
 * Establish and enforce high standards for code quality, testing, deployment, reliability, incident management, and on-call practices.
 * Use metrics and SLOs to continuously improve availability, latency, security, and cost.
 * Partner deeply with Product and cross-functional leaders.
 * Collaborate with Product, Design, Operations, Marketing, Airport Partnerships, Legal, Security, and Member Care to deliver cohesive experiences.
 * Translate business and customer requirements into clear engineering roadmaps and execution plans.
 * Own critical partner relationships.
 * Work closely with key partners across government and industry to drive innovation at scale across CLEAR products.