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Vice President, Architecture
UserTesting
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud Platform
About the role
- Define, integrate, and communicate the vision for Architecture, Infrastructure, and DX, ensuring alignment with business objectives, product strategies, and long-term R&D priorities
- Establish and oversee architectural principles, frameworks, and standards that drive consistency, security, scalability, and resilience
- Shape the evolution of cloud infrastructure, networking, observability, and platform reliability ensuring cost efficiency, performance, compliance, and operational excellence
- Champion and improve developer productivity and workflows through tooling, automation, CI/CD pipelines, frameworks, and best practices
- Provide strong and decisive leadership across Architecture, Infrastructure, and DX; build, mentor, and scale high-performing teams
- Partner with engineering, product, design, and security leaders to integrate architecture, infrastructure, and DX priorities into roadmaps and investments
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies and industry trends; evaluate opportunities to drive differentiation
- Guide, design and operationalize decisions that enable rapid growth while ensuring system reliability and customer satisfaction
- Provide architectural due diligence and integration strategy for mergers and acquisitions
- Evaluate and influence adoption of enterprise-wide tooling and systems across departments
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks across architecture, infrastructure, and developer workflows
- Serve as a thought leader internally and externally, representing UserTesting’s technical vision with executives, partners, and the developer community
Requirements
- 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering
- At least 7+ years in senior leadership roles spanning architecture, infrastructure, or developer experience
- Proven track record of strong and decisive leadership, including making high-impact decisions and leading through growth and ambiguity
- Demonstrated success in scaling large, complex SaaS platforms and aligning technical strategy with business outcomes
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), APIs, data platforms, and observability
- Strong background in developer platforms, CI/CD, automation, and developer productivity practices
- Knowledge of enterprise-grade security, compliance, and governance frameworks
- Experience building, scaling, and inspiring multiple high-performing technical teams
- Experience evaluating and selecting enterprise-wide tooling and systems, including for non-engineering departments
- Experience supporting M&A due diligence and post-merger integration from a technology and architectural perspective
- Exceptional collaboration, influence, communication, and storytelling skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringarchitectureinfrastructuredeveloper experiencedistributed systemscloud-native infrastructureAPIsdata platformsobservabilityCI/CD
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationinfluencecommunicationstorytellingmentoringdecision-makingrisk mitigationteam buildingstrategic alignment
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineeringadvanced degree preferred
