Vice President, Engineering

11 hours ago

🗽 New York – Remote

Although this job is listed in New York, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $175k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🖥 Software Engineer

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A Place for Mom

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Marketplace • B2C

A Place for Mom is a U. S. -based senior care referral and marketplace that helps families find, compare, and arrange senior living and home care options, including assisted living, memory care, independent living, nursing homes, and home care providers. The company connects families with local senior living advisors, publishes guides, reviews and awards, and offers tools like cost calculators and personalized recommendations. Its service is free to families and is funded by participating senior living communities and home care providers.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2000

🏪 Marketplace

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• 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