SVP, Engineering

Underdog Sports

85d • $300,000 - $400,000

About The Position

As SVP of Engineering, you will lead and scale a multi-disciplinary engineering organization spanning product engineering, data engineering, security, infrastructure, technical compliance, and IT. You’ll be the technical and operational backbone — ensuring stability, velocity, and excellence — while partnering tightly with Product, Design, and the rest of the exec team to set and deliver on the roadmap.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in leadership roles within high-impact engineering organizations, ideally in fast-paced, consumer or data-intensive environments
• Proven track record scaling engineering teams through multiple phases of growth
• Deep expertise in technical domains including data infrastructure tooling, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), security, and large-scale distributed systems
• Experience in both strategic and hands-on contexts: able to dive into architecture, code reviews, design when needed
• A strong performance management mindset: coaching, career paths, accountability, metrics-driven
• Exceptional at cross-functional partner relationships, especially with Product, Design, and business stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills—able to distill complexity for executives, and inspire engineers
• Bias for action, ownership, urgency, and continuous improvement

Nice To Haves

• Experience in gaming, consumer platforms, or real-time systems
• Experience with regulated environments (e.g. compliance, audits)

Responsibilities

• Set the vision, strategy, and execution plan for all engineering domains (product engineering, data engineering, ML, security, infrastructure, IT), aligned with business goals
• Build, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering leaders and teams (managers, tech leads, ICs) across ~150+ engineers
• Drive performance management: ensure consistent feedback, coaching, goal setting, and development plans
• Establish clear metrics and accountability for engineering health (e.g. uptime, latency, MTTR, deployment frequency, error budgets)
• Oversee the technical architecture, platform roadmap, and infrastructure investments to scale the product and data stack
• Maintain strong collaboration with Product and Design: co-own planning, prioritization, tradeoffs, and delivery
• Own security, compliance, governance, and data privacy at the enterprise level
• Elevate operational excellence by helping strengthen CI/CD, observability, incident response, and technical debt reduction to improve productivity and reliability
• Manage budgets, resource allocations, vendor & tooling decisions
• Modernize engineering practices by driving adoption of AI-assisted development, automation, and continuous improvement in delivery pipelines
• Champion cultural and organizational shifts needed to scale engineering velocity and quality
• Represent engineering externally in engagements with regulators, industry groups, and key strategic partners
• Act as a culture carrier: embed Underdog values (ambition, urgency, ownership, teamwork) in how engineering operates

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior