VP, Product Platform & Engineering

This position is not eligible for sponsorship now or in the future and requires local commuting to the office.

About the Role

The Vice President of Product & Platform Engineering will lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of the technology platforms that enable the company’s product operating model. This executive owns the end-to-end architecture across infrastructure, platforms, applications, and DevOps, ensuring product squads/trios are fully enabled to build, deploy, and scale customer solutions with speed and autonomy. They will develop a scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platform ecosystem that accelerates innovation while maintaining reliability, performance, and operational excellence. As a hands-on technical leader, the VP will bridge product strategy and engineering execution, providing the architecture, tooling, and infrastructure necessary to support modern product development and deliver scalable, resilient technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Platform & Infrastructure Strategy
  • Define and lead the long-term platform engineering strategy supporting the organization’s product roadmap and growth.
  • Own the architecture and delivery of core platform capabilities, including infrastructure, developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and shared services.
  • Establish a scalable, resilient cloud architecture and infrastructure foundation.
  • Drive adoption of modern platform engineering practices such as internal developer platforms, platform-as-a-product, and self-service infrastructure.
• Architecture Leadership
  • Own enterprise-level application and platform architecture.
  • Define standards for system design, microservices architecture, APIs, and data architecture.
  • Ensure platforms and services are designed for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
  • Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure architectural alignment across product squads.
• Product Operating Model Enablement
  • Enable the organization’s product squad/trio operating model by providing shared platform services, architecture frameworks, and developer tooling.
  • Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, and Engineering leaders to ensure squads can build and deploy quickly without reinventing core capabilities.
  • Ensure teams have access to reusable components, APIs, and platform capabilities that accelerate delivery.
• DevOps & Engineering Enablement
  • Own DevOps strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering productivity tooling.
  • Drive improvements in developer experience, release velocity, and system reliability.
  • Lead adoption of observability, monitoring, and incident management practices.
  • Build a culture of automation, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement.
• Reliability, Security, & Scalability
  • Ensure platform and infrastructure systems meet high standards of uptime, security, and compliance.
  • Partner with security and compliance teams to embed secure-by-design engineering practices.
  • Establish and maintain SRE and operational excellence practices.
• Core Leadership Competencies
  • Strategic Mindset: Leads long-term platform and architecture strategy aligned to product and business growth. Bridges product strategy with engineering execution and platform enablement.
  • Ensures Accountability: Owns end-to-end architecture, platform, and DevOps delivery. Sets and enforces standards for performance, security, reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Builds Effective Teams: Builds and develops high-performing engineering and platform teams. Coaches leaders and fosters a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.
  • Customer Focus: Enables product squads to deliver customer value quickly and safely. Provides scalable platforms, tools, and reusable components that improve customer outcomes.
  • Cultivates Innovation: Drives adoption of internal developer platforms and self-service infrastructure. Builds a developer-centric ecosystem that accelerates innovation across teams.
  • Decision Quality: Makes high-impact architectural and technical decisions for scale, security, and reliability. Prioritizes infrastructure and tooling investments to maximize delivery velocity and stability.
  • Communicates Effectively: Aligns with Product, Engineering, Security/Compliance, and Data leadership. Communicates complex technical strategies with clarity and executive impact.
  • Complex Ecosystem Delivery: Orchestrates delivery across infrastructure, architecture, DevOps/SRE, and platform domains. Leads large-scale cloud, distributed systems, and platform transformations.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience (12+ years) in software engineering and platform/infrastructure leadership, including leading large-scale engineering or platform organizations.
• Proven track record building and scaling cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and modern product operating models.
• Deep technical expertise in cloud platforms, microservices, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, DevOps/SRE, container orchestration, observability, and API/service architectures.
• Strong strategic and communication skills, with the ability to translate business goals into technical strategy and align diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success building high-performing engineering teams and driving developer experience and productivity in fast-paced environments.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with SaaS or large-scale digital platforms, internal developer platforms, and modernizing legacy systems to cloud-native architectures.
• Familiarity with product-led development and agile squad models.

Company Values

An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the following core values:

• Own It: Focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
• Do What’s Right: Champion integrity and good character. Model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment, and act courageously.
• Choose Courage Over Comfort: Lean into conversations, decisions, and actions that move the business forward, even when uncomfortable. Challenge assumptions, address issues early, and prioritize progress over ease.
• Win Together: Grow and inspire people together. Collaborate, value differences, think and act globally, foster an engaging work environment, and recognize and develop others.