Vice President, Engineering - Studio, Gym & Enterprise

About the role

Join ABC Fitness and become part of a culture that’s as ambitious as it is authentic. Let’s transform the future of fitness—together!

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering across the Gym, Studio, and Enterprise product areas, including Ignite, Glofox, API platforms, and staff-facing operational experiences for clubs and studios.
• Own technical strategy, delivery execution, operational excellence, and engineering culture for the portfolio.
• Partner with Product and business leadership to define measurable customer, business, and operational outcomes.
• Translate company priorities into clear engineering plans, investment choices, sequencing decisions, and execution rhythms.
• Drive AI-enabled SDLC adoption across the Gym, Studio, and Enterprise engineering organization, partnering with the engineering enablement VP and peer leaders to roll out shared practices, support team transition, and improve productivity, quality, and operating discipline.
• Lead and develop a globally distributed engineering organization across North America, Brazil, Europe, and India.
• Improve delivery predictability, product quality, platform reliability, security posture, and operational efficiency.
• Drive modernization of legacy and current platforms, APIs, integrations, and staff-facing operational systems.
• Strengthen engineering operating rhythms, including planning, execution, dependency management, incident response, release readiness, and portfolio-level reporting.
• Partner with Customer Success, Support, and enterprise stakeholders to understand customer pain, resolve escalations, and prioritize systemic improvements.
• Build, coach, and develop engineering leaders, creating strong succession plans and clear accountability across the organization.
• Promote scalable communication practices, strong cross-functional alignment, and consistent execution across distributed teams.
• Represent engineering in executive discussions, product planning, customer conversations, and strategic transformation initiatives.

Requirements

• Engineering Leadership: 10+ years of software engineering leadership experience, including experience leading multiple teams, multiple product areas, or a large engineering portfolio.
• Executive Experience: Experience as a VP, Senior Director, or equivalent engineering leader in a SaaS, enterprise software, platform, commerce, payments, fitness technology, or complex multi-product environment.
• Organizational Transformation: Proven ability to lead engineering organizations through scale, modernization, operational improvement, and organizational transformation.
• Global Team Leadership: Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams across multiple regions and time zones.
• Technical Judgment: Strong technical judgment across architecture, APIs, cloud platforms, integrations, reliability, security, quality, and engineering productivity.
• Outcome Orientation: Experience partnering with Product and business leaders to translate strategy into measurable outcomes and executable engineering plans.
• Operational Excellence: Demonstrated ability to improve delivery predictability, operational discipline, platform reliability, and product quality.
• Talent Development: Experience leading leaders, developing senior technical and management talent, and building high-performing engineering cultures.
• Change Leadership: Ability to drive change across teams and influence peers without relying solely on direct reporting authority.
• Executive Communication: Strong executive communication skills with the ability to communicate portfolio health, risks, trade-offs, and technical strategy clearly.
• Strategic Execution: Ability to balance strategic leadership with operational accountability and hands-on problem solving when needed.

Qualifications

• Experience with fitness, wellness, membership management, billing, payments, commerce, CRM, or club / studio management platforms.
• Experience supporting operational systems used by business staff to manage day-to-day workflows.
• Experience supporting enterprise customers with complex integration needs, account-specific requirements, SLAs, escalations, and platform dependencies.
• Experience with API platform strategy, integration ecosystems, or enterprise platform capabilities.
• Experience modernizing legacy platforms while continuing to deliver customer-facing roadmap commitments.
• Experience improving SDLC practices through AI-assisted engineering, automation, CI/CD, testing strategy, developer tooling, or platform engineering.
• Experience leading engineering teams across North America, Latin America, Europe, and India.
• Experience operating in a private equity-backed, high-growth, or transformation-oriented software company.

Skills

• Outcomes over outputs: Focus on measurable customer, business, and operational outcomes, not just shipped features or completed projects.
• Systems over heroics: Build durable teams, platforms, and operating rhythms that scale globally. Value reliability, repeatability, and thoughtful execution over last-minute saves or dependence on a few key individuals.
• Clarity over complexity: Make priorities, ownership, architecture, and tradeoffs clear. If a system, plan, or decision is too complex to explain, it is probably too complex to operate effectively.
• Transformation with discipline: Embrace AI-enabled SDLC adoption and new ways of working, but do so responsibly, measurably, and with clear support for teams through the transition.
• Global alignment over local optimization: Lead as one engineering organization, focusing on global alignment rather than local optimizations.