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James Norton

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VP Engineering at Birdie
📍 Elstree, England, United Kingdom

James Norton is the VP of Engineering at Birdie, an experienced technologist passionate about building great teams and developing talent. He previously led engineering departments of over 80 people at Cazoo, focusing on strategic alignment and agile practices. Colleagues describe him as a highly skilled, astute, and professional leader.

He is considered a master of the JavaScript language with a stronger understanding of back-end architecture than many of his front-end developer peers.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
VP Engineering
Job Level
Senior
Location
Elstree, England, United Kingdom
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Developing Tech Talent
His personal introduction highlights a passion for building great teams and developing awesome talent to deliver high-quality software.
Scaling Tech Teams
As Engineering Director at Cazoo, he led a department of 80 engineers, architects, and quality engineers distributed across three countries.
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Career

Work history

6-2025
VP Engineering
Birdie
9-2024 - 5-2025
VP Product Engineering
RedCloud
11-2022 - 6-2024
Engineering Director
Cazoo
3-2020 - 11-2022
Head of Engineering
Cazoo
11-2019 - 2-2020
Software Engineering Manager
Habito
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Woodhouse Sixth Form College
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