Vice President of Engineering

About the Company

Sparsa AI is a Singapore based Industrial-AI Startup, building the next generation of agentic AI platform to transform how physical industries—such as manufacturing and logistics—make decisions and optimize their operations. Our AI agents orchestrate complex workflows across business functions and enterprise applications including ERP, MES, CRM and supply chain environments to resolve real-world constraints and unlock productivity.

About the Role

Vice President of Engineering

India

Core Responsibilities

• Define, own, and continuously evolve the end-to-end product roadmap in alignment with company vision and market demand.
• Translate output from the Chief AI Officer-led innovation stream into deployable enterprise-ready products.
• Prioritize product features and initiatives based on customer needs, business impact, and technical feasibility.

Product Lifecycle Leadership

• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle: concept → MVP → iterative releases → scale.
• Set and uphold delivery, quality, and performance standards across the product organization.

Infrastructure & Deployment Ownership

• Own the architecture and operations of cloud-native infrastructure used to support product deployment and scaling.
• Lead development and oversight of AI/ML Ops systems ensuring robust, automated, and secure model training, testing, and deployment pipelines.
• Ensure alignment of product infrastructure with enterprise IT security, compliance, and integration requirements.

Product-Market Fit & GTM Alignment

• Partner closely with the leadership team to align product strategy with GTM execution.
• Drive delivery success for Agentic AI solutions across our growing customer base, ensuring measurable outcomes and operational reliability.
• Interface with key customers and partners to understand emerging needs and drive product-market fit in targeted (real economy) industries.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in

  product or platform leadership

  , ideally in AI startups or SaaS environments.
• Demonstrated success delivering customer-facing software and ML/AI solutions from zero to scale.
• Strong ability to connect customer problems with technical solutions, and manage trade-offs.
• Experienced in building and leading cross-functional teams (product, engineering, cloud, MLOps in agile environments).
• Proven experience building and scaling multi-tenant SaaS platforms with strong observability, compliance, and performance.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native ML architecture, MLOps best practices (CI/CD, versioning, drift detection), and integrating third-party tools across AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Fluent English & German language skills.
• A high degree of mobility and flexibility in location is preferred.

Required Skills

• Hands-on exposure to LLM agents, orchestration frameworks (LangChain, Semantic Kernel, etc).
• Experience with developer platforms, agent SDKs, or enterprise integration stacks (e.g., SAP, MES, RPA).
• Experience with mainstream ERPs like SAP/Oracle etc.
• Experience in ERP and MES products like SAP, Siemens etc.

Preferred Skills

• You are a builder and executor, not just a strategist.
• Thrive in ambiguity and are energized by both 0→1 and 1→N product challenges.
• Have deep empathy for both internal dev teams and external enterprise users.
• Share Sparsa’s mission to provide a Digital Workforce as a Service (DWAAS) through agentic AI.

Pay range and compensation package

• Executive-level role at a visionary AI company with presence in Asia and Europe.
• High ownership, equity participation, and impact on product and company direction.
• Direct collaboration with the founding team (CEO, CSO, CAIO).
• A platform to build something transformative for global industries.

Equal Opportunity Statement

If you are passionate about building transformative products at the intersection of AI and industrial operations, we invite you to shape the future with us. This is your opportunity to lead Product delivery in a fast-growing company that is redefining how the real economy works. At Sparsa AI, you'll work alongside an exceptional team, solve real-world problems, and leave a lasting impact on global industries. Let’s build the future of Industrial AI-Agents—together.

If you have the chops, let’s connect!