Vice President, Engineering
A Place for Mom
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $175,000 - $185,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudJavaScriptNext.jsReactTypeScript
About the role
- Lead and mentor the Senior Living engineering organization (Sales Tech, Web, CRM/Salesforce, QA), fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and delivery excellence.
- Translate stakeholder-driven initiatives into actionable engineering plans and ensure consistent, predictable execution across teams.
- Establish and maintain clear delivery frameworks, planning cadences, and communication rhythms across the engineering organization.
- Ensure teams have the structure, tools, and support needed to deliver on roadmap commitments with high quality and reliability.
- Define and monitor key engineering metrics related to delivery performance, system stability, and operational efficiency.
- Oversee a cross-functional Salesforce engineering team that supports multiple product domains, ensuring alignment of priorities, resource planning, and technical execution across the Senior Living and other engineering organizations.
- Lead a centralized QA organization, including a QA Manager, responsible for defining and promoting quality assurance best practices, optimizing QA resourcing across multiple engineering orgs, and advancing AI-enabled testing tools and validation processes to improve speed and accuracy without compromising release quality.
- Partner closely with Product and TPM peers to align business priorities, refine requirements, and develop realistic delivery plans.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Data to ensure technology solutions meet business outcomes.
- Serve as a key liaison between engineering and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of scope, timelines, risks, and tradeoffs.
- Contribute to cross-functional planning and prioritization processes, ensuring engineering capacity is allocated effectively across initiatives.
- Oversee day-to-day technical execution and operational performance for Senior Living platforms, including CRM-integrated systems, lead management tools, and marketing web properties.
- Drive accountability for technical quality, security, scalability, and maintainability within the engineering organization.
- Partner with architecture and infrastructure teams to align on shared patterns, frameworks, and standards.
- Champion disciplined use of AI-assisted development tools to improve velocity, ensuring results are validated and quality remains uncompromised.
- Lead and develop a team of Engineering Directors and Senior Managers, fostering professional growth, accountability, and engagement.
- Build a culture of clarity, ownership, and continuous improvement focused on measurable outcomes.
- Partner with People and Talent teams to recruit, retain, and develop top engineering talent.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing other engineering leaders across multiple teams or domains.
- Proven ability to lead large, distributed engineering teams through structured, stakeholder-defined delivery initiatives.
- Strong operational and organizational skills — excels in roadmap execution, capacity planning, and delivery tracking.
- Experience leading or partnering with cross-functional development teams, ensuring architectural alignment, data consistency, and integration across multiple product domains.
- Demonstrated success managing or guiding centralized Quality Assurance (QA) functions, including implementing testing frameworks, AI-assisted QA tooling, and shared resourcing strategies across multiple engineering organizations.
- Experience with modern web technologies (React, Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript), API-driven architectures, and cloud environments (AWS preferred).
- Familiarity with CRM platforms (Salesforce experience strongly preferred) and integrations supporting sales and marketing operations.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to partner effectively with Product and TPM peers and build trust across business and technical audiences.
- Experience in delivery-focused environments where success is measured by predictable outcomes, quality, and business impact.
- Understanding of agile delivery principles, software lifecycle management, and engineering metrics.
- Experience leading remote or distributed teams with empathy and clarity.
- Proven ability to scale engineering and operational practices that balance speed with
Benefits
- 401(k) plus match
- Dental Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Paid Time Off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
engineering leadershiproadmap executioncapacity planningdelivery trackingQA functionstesting frameworksAI-assisted QA toolingmodern web technologiesAPI-driven architecturescloud environments
Soft skills
operational skillsorganizational skillscommunication skillscollaboration skillsempathyclaritytrust buildingprofessional growthaccountabilitycontinuous improvement
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s Degree in Engineering