The Athletic · 1 day ago
VP, Engineering (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$270K/yr - $300K/yr
8+ years expThe 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.
JournalismNewsSports
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
Qualification
Required
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
The Athletic
The Athletic is an online media company that specializes in online news publishing for the sports industry.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$139.46MKey Investors
Bedrock Capital PartnersFounders FundEvolution Media
2022-01-06Acquired
2020-01-21Series D· $50M
2019-05-29Series C· $21.76M
Leadership Team
Adam Hansmann
Co-Founder & President
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David Ortenberg
SVP, Operations
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