Vice President Engineering Core Developers

GoDaddy is a leading platform for web designers and developers, seeking a visionary Vice President of Engineering to lead their engineering teams for WordPress, Hosting, and Security solutions. The role involves driving engineering vision and strategy, partnering with product leaders, and managing a large multi-site engineering organization to align and deliver on company goals.

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

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