← Vincent Coste

Resume

Engineering Director with 15+ years building and scaling 0→1 products to global reach. Product-first leader who takes accountability across organizational boundaries to deliver complex technical and product outcomes.

Meta

2020–now · San Francisco

Director of Engineering, Meta Business Agent

May 2025–now
  • Lead engineering for LLM-powered business agents deployed across Messenger, Instagram and Meta Business Suite, used by 4M weekly active businesses. Partner with central GenAI platform teams to turn evolving model and agent capabilities into customer-facing workflows.
  • Own the end-to-end integration between agents and Meta’s messaging infrastructure: business configuration, conversational interfaces and product infrastructure, for customer support, lead qualification, product discovery, booking and commerce.
  • Take agent experiences from early product development to production at scale. Grew the engineering organization to about 80–90 while keeping the focus on shipping.

Director of Engineering, Messenger & Facebook

Aug 2024–Apr 2025
  • Owned a portfolio of 0→1 initiatives across Messenger and Facebook, including marketing messaging, consumer experiences and AI search, while continuing to lead Messenger Communities and Broadcast Channels.

Senior Engineering Manager, Broadcast Channels

Jul 2021–Jul 2024
  • Co-founded Broadcast Channels with a product counterpart and led engineering from concept through launches on Instagram, Messenger and Facebook, growing it to nearly 1B users.
  • Took accountability beyond my direct scope, aligning engineering teams across organizational boundaries through architecture and execution reviews, cross-team staffing and key technical decisions.
  • Helped move messaging from bounded group fanout (1:56) to effectively unbounded one-to-many delivery, connecting long-horizon platform investments to launch and scaling needs.

Engineering Manager, Messenger Communities & Visual Messaging

Jul 2020–Jul 2021
  • Built the initial team and shipped the alpha of Messenger Communities (later 70M+ daily users), alongside visual messaging work in Messenger.

Getaround

2019–2020

Global VP of Engineering

  • Led engineering across four international sites during a critical company turnaround, aligning product priorities, architecture and execution with business constraints.
  • Restructured the organization and delivery model, reducing burn by 80% while helping restore a path toward profitability.

Remix

2017–2019 · acquired by Via for $100M

VP of Engineering

  • Built the engineering foundation for an expanding mobility software platform, scaling the team while sustaining execution quality.
  • Incubated three new product lines — two became durable revenue drivers — while tripling revenue in the core business.

Omada Health

2013–2017

VP Engineering · Director of Product Engineering · Head of Mobile

  • Joined as employee #9 and helped take an early digital-health product through multiple stages of growth, progressing from product engineer to engineering leader.
  • Built the company’s first iOS application and Rails API, then developed the mobile product and the engineering practice around it.
  • Evolved engineering into full-stack product teams, improving end-to-end ownership and sustaining reliable releases for more than three years.

Earlier

2008–2013

Co-founder, Software Engineer & Product Manager · ChooseYourBoss

2011–2013
  • Co-created and launched a new product from concept to market within Figaro Classifieds, spanning discovery, product design and implementation.

Consultant · OCTO Technology, Paris

2009–2012
  • Software architecture and agile engineering engagements for Canal+ Overseas, Médiamétrie and Pages Jaunes.

Software Engineer Intern · Siemens Corporate Research, NJ

2008–2009

Education & additional

MSc in Software Engineering, EPITA — École d’Ingénieurs en Informatique, Paris (2003–2008). French (native), English (fluent). Co-author of Les géants du web (OCTO Technology).