About CoLab At CoLab, we help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner. CoLab is the AI platform for driving stronger engineering decisions. Every design review in CoLab builds a knowledge repository of design feedback, decisions, and lessons learned - which AI agents draw from to flag issues on future designs before they compound.

The more your team works in CoLab, the smarter it gets and the faster you arrive at the ideal design. Companies like Ford, Komatsu, and Johnson Controls use CoLab to catch issues earlier, eliminate rework cycles, and bring products to market faster. Founded in St.

John’s, Newfoundland, CoLab has grown quickly from our first customer in 2019 to a rapidly scaling company. We’ve recently been recognized on Deloitte’s Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ , and named a Canadian company to watch by The Globe and Mail and Financial Post.

About The Role

This role is for a high-impact engineering leader who has been in the trenches at fast-scaling startups — someone who has grown from individual contributor to leader and helped scale engineering orgs through multiple phases of growth. Ideally, you've done it more than once. As VP of Software Engineering, you'll be responsible for building and maintaining a high-performing, scalable engineering organization across Product Development, Ops, and Technical Support.

This is a role for someone who’s hands-on enough to spot an issue in a pull request, and strategic enough to influence long-term roadmap, product vision, and cross-functional priorities. You'll partner closely with Product and Design to ship great software faster, with fewer surprises. You'll also work directly with customers and support our GTM motion, stepping in when technical insight is needed on strategic deals or customer challenges.

Our Ideal Candidate You’ve helped scale at least one startup through a period of fast growth (Series A → C or similar), and ideally done it more than once. You’ve grown from IC to leadership, and know what it takes to help others do the same. You’re low ego, high respect.

People seek out your input not because of your title, but because you are good at what you do, genuinely helpful and motivating to work with. You’re a builder at heart — pragmatic, resourceful, and relentlessly focused on outcomes.

What You’Ll Do

g. g. uptime, velocity, quality, cost) that drive business value Help scale our team with world-class talent and build functions that support career growth across the team Collaborate across departments — from GTM to CS — to support technical enablement and customer success Join CoLab’s Senior Leadership Team and help shape company strategy across all areas of the business What You’ll Bring Significant experience as a software developer, including on large-scale SaaS systems Experience with modern cloud tech stacks.

Compensation

: This is a full-time, permanent position with an attractive

package that includes a stock options package.

Benefits

: This role offers an extended health and

package that includes unlimited paid vacation and RRS