Vice President Engineering Core Developers

GoDaddy

11h • Remote

About The Position

GoDaddy powers the world's largest platform dedicated to Web Designers and Developers (WDD) who provide marketing services—including website building and maintenance—to their clients. GoDaddy is seeking a visionary Vice President of Engineering to lead our engineering teams for WordPress, Hosting and Security solutions across some of the most recognized brands in the space: GoDaddy, Pagely, ManageWP, and Sucuri. Reporting directly to our Product and AI CTO, a cornerstone of our Engineering Leadership Team — setting strategy, inspiring teams, and delivering extraordinary products at scale.
Working with our product management team to deliver products and platforms which accelerate delivery while encouraging an environment for a test and learn culture. Fusing forces and collaborating across collaborators, including senior engineering leadership, product management, marketing, site reliability engineering and data center to align and deliver on company goals.
If you are seeking the opportunity to develop the Future of the Web. Lead the Teams That Power it, bring a customer-centric view with a passion for gaining customer insights and translating data and observations into significant strategies and product experiences we encourage you to apply.

Requirements

• 15+ years in Engineering Leadership and Management in a global SaaS, internet, or software product organization, with a track record of growing responsibility and organizational impact
• Deep expertise in WordPress, Hosting, or Security; you understand the nuances of the WordPress ecosystem and can speak the language of developers and platform engineers alike
• A data-inspired leadership style; you leverage data science, ML, and hypothesis-driven validation to set direction and measure what matters
• Proven track record to lead at scale; you've successfully driven large, multi-functional initiatives requiring shared consensus across sophisticated, matrixed organizations
• Strong technical depth; including modern platform architectures, public cloud environments (AWS/GCP), multi-region applications, and complex product portfolio management

Nice To Haves

• A Bachelor's/Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering vision and strategy across WordPress, Hosting, Security, and Reseller businesses — owning the roadmap, architecture, and execution plans end to end
• Partner with Product and GTM leaders to manage trade-offs, align technology roadmaps, and ensure a flawless customer experience across all adjacent products
• Build a culture of experimentation; leading testing efficiency, velocity, and experimentation initiatives across engineering, UX, and site marketing to move every key critical metric
• Develop and lead a product quality scorecard; tracking performance, availability, and quality with regular executive-level reporting
• Lead and scale a 150+ person, multi-site engineering organization; encouraging engagement, career growth, and high performance through strong leadership and structured review cycles
• Build company strategy, contributing to 1 and 3-year corporate and divisional planning, and building platforms, APIs, and tools that power the entire organization

Benefits

• competitive pay
• generous time off
• parental and wellness leave
• healthcare
• retirement savings program
• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)-retirement plan
• paid sick time
• paid flexible time off
• paid parental leave
• life insurance
• short- and long-term disability
• AD&D insurance
• mental health or EAP programs
• remote or hybrid work options
• paid holidays
• paid Wellness days
• tuition assistance
• adoption, surrogacy, and fertility benefits
• dependent daycare and backup care benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan
• financial education and advice

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: Associate degree