[Remote] VP, Engineering (Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Athletic Media Company is a leading sports media organization that provides in-depth coverage of various teams and athletes. They are seeking an experienced VP Engineering to lead their software engineering team, focusing on defining technical strategies and managing product development across multiple platforms. Responsibilities • You will be responsible for managing the hiring process as additional engineers join our team, with a focus on diversity and inclusion, and staffing and structuring your teams to meet business needs • Manage your team of leaders and help them to deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced, agile, high-growth environment • Make technology, infrastructure, architectural, and hiring decisions to meet anticipated demands and scale • Evaluate trade-offs and effectively prioritize tasks within each team in alignment with strategic initiatives and company goals • Collaborate closely with product, design, editorial, data science, and marketing teams to define strategy, execute on roadmaps, and remove roadblocks • Hold regular 1:1s, evaluate performance, and provide consistent productive feedback • Help engineers learn the skills needed to advance in their career • Work with engineers and product managers to iterate on and improve team processes and efficiency • Contribute to important company-wide initiatives like diversity and inclusion, technical brand, and hiring process Skills • 8+ years of experience managing an engineering team • Experience leading a team building a consumer product on both web and iOS/Android, evaluating architecture tradeoffs and helping team make technical decisions • Direct experience scaling a small to medium/large team highly desired (but not required) • Experience with some portion of our tech stack, and an appetite to learn the remainder: AWS, Javascript (React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo/GraphQL), PHP (Wordpress), MySQL/DynamoDB, ElasticSearch • Enthusiasm to work in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment • A strong desire to stay connected to the codebase—this can be a hands-on role if desired Benefits • Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans. • Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses. • 401k retirement savings plan and employer match. • Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave. Company Overview • The Athletic is an online media company that specializes in online news publishing for the sports industry. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • The Athletic has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023, 1 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.