VP, Engineering
Turn/River, San Francisco, CA
The role
Turn/River is seeking a VP of Engineering to unlock engineering capacity in our portfolio companies. You'll work directly with CTOs, CPOs, and engineering teams at our portfolio companies, building AI agents that automate recurring feature development. This is a hands-on building role where you will write agent code, design orchestration architectures, and partner with engineers daily.
What you will do
- Identify recurring, high-yield feature patterns in portfolio company backlogs that consume disproportionate engineering time and effort
- Decompose those patterns into agent task hierarchies, orchestration flows, and validation loops
- Prototype agents end-to-end yourself, proving the approach and value on real backlog items before involving other engineers
- Use data and build working demos to earn CTO/CPO buy-in in order to dedicate the engineering team to agent development