VP of Engineering

Company Overview: We're Zocks, a venture capital-backed AI startup changing the world of financial services, and other industries that value security and privacy. Our founding team built their careers working on real-time communication products, building enterprise platforms, and crafting tools for some of the most security-conscious industries. With experience gained from industry leaders like Twilio, IBM, Microsoft, and Hearsay Systems, we're using AI to bridge human conversations with enterprise systems, starting with financial services.  Our focus, although simple, is powerful: reinventing business operations and transforming the areas that often get bogged down by slow, inefficient processes. Our innovative platform allows people to communicate naturally, while we capture the information they need, so they can avoid data entry, streamline their operations, and spend more time on what matters most: their clients. Location: Budapest, XI. (On-site Monday to Thursday, Remote on Fridays) As Zocks continues to grow, we're looking for a Vice President of Engineering to help us scale not just our technology, but our engineering organization, playing a key role in scaling a fast-growing AI company. You'll work side by side with our founders, including our CTO, leading our Engineering Managers while helping define how Engineering evolves as we continue building one of the leading AI platforms serving financial advisors across the United States. Today, our engineering organization consists of several development teams (and continues to grow), led by Engineering Managers. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing our engineering leaders, strengthening our engineering culture, and ensuring the organization scales while maintaining high standards of delivery, quality and collaboration. This is a highly strategic leadership position. Rather than joining to execute an existing engineering playbook, you'll have genuine ownership in shaping how Engineering operates at Zocks. Working closely with our CTO, you'll help define our engineering strategy, organizational structure and operating principles, making pragmatic decisions that fit our product, our business and our culture. We're looking for someone who enjoys building, not just managing. Someone who sees scaling an engineering organization as an opportunity to create better systems, stronger leaders and a healthier culture—not simply add more people.