Remote Vice President, Product Engineering

Summary

Join MyFitnessPal, a leading brand for improving health through better food choices, as the VP, Engineering. You will lead a large software development team, interface with executive leadership and product teams, and ensure successful software solutions. Experience in customer-centric environments is essential.

Requirements

• Successfully scaling engineering teams in a squad-formation working under the product operating model
• 15+ years of new product development engineering experience. Mobile preferred
• 10+ years of managing an engineering team
• Experience managing local, remote, offshore, and contracted teams, with a proven ability to work across teams in different geographic locations and time zones
• Have a passion for designing, developing, and deploying production-ready software
• Strong experience within the entire SDLC and maturing each stage
• Have practical development experience in one or more of the following programming languages: Java, Scala, Objective C, Swift, C++, Ruby, or Python
• B2C, cloud-hosted, and subscription-driven software solutions experience preferred
• Phenomenal interpersonal, analytical, problem solving, negotiating, influencing, facilitation, organizational, prioritization, decision-making, and conflict resolution skills
• An awareness of privacy and security by design principles is a plus
• Have a degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent real-world experience
• Identify with MyFitnessPal’s mission and values

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, manage, coach, and retain a world-class engineering team to keep pace with the company's growth and philosophy of high value for intellectual capital
• Understand existing skills and those needed to project the resources required to achieve company goals
• Assess each team and position for strengths, weaknesses, and appropriateness of assignments, restructuring the department and/or specific roles as needed
• Outline performance goals for teams and roles and manage to those goals
• Create bench strength for both risk avoidance and career growth
• Work closely with recruiting to hire additional team members in a timely manner as needed to reach full departmental capability
• Develop the overall engineering proficiency needed to support growth and drive stability during ambiguous times
• Ensure that the teams architect, build, test, and release high quality, reliable, maintainable, secure, performant software solutions
• Collaborate on strategy, roadmaps, and developing platforms and product feature sets that align to key business results
• Develop, integrate, and enforce a broad range of process activities to ensure the organization operates at an optimal level
• Set goals and prioritize key initiatives on a quarterly and annual basis
• Participate in company budgeting, with authority to execute on plans that are in accordance with the approved budget

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Parental planning
• Mental health benefits
• Annual performance bonus
• 401(k) plan and match
• Responsible time off
• Monthly wellness and technology allowances