VP, Engineering

America's Test Kitchen (ATK) is seeking a hands-on VP, Engineering to lead our entire software development organization and to help drive the next phase of our digital platform strategy. This critical leadership role is focused on cultivating technical excellence, organizational maturity, and high-impact delivery, across our website, app, and digital subscription and MarTech platforms. The successful candidate will be a seasoned leader who thrives on mentoring and coaching engineering leaders and managers, developing a strong, scalable organizational structure, and ensuring our technical strategy directly enables ATK's business growth goals. This is a newly created role that will report to the Chief Product and Technology Officer. Core Leadership Responsibilities Organizational and People Leadership: • Mentor and Coach Leaders: Provide direct coaching and professional development to engineering leaders to strengthen their technical, strategic, and people leadership skills. • Scale the Organization: Strategically plan for the growth and structure of the 20-25 person engineering team, ensuring appropriate role clarity, accountability, and career paths. • Drive Engineering Excellence: Instill best practices for software development, quality, scalability, and performance across all engineering teams. • Cultivate Culture: Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance culture that values ownership, continuous improvement, and thoughtful risk-taking. Technical Strategy and Execution: • Executive Technical Leadership: Define and articulate the long-term technical vision and roadmap for ATK's core digital platforms, with a core emphasis on both the MarTech and subscription technology stack and customer-facing website and app capabilities. • Strategic Alignment: Partner closely with Marketing, Product, Design and Content leaders to translate ambitious business objectives into clear, achievable technical strategies and project plans. • Delivery Oversight: Ensure effective, predictable, and high-quality delivery of all major engineering initiatives across the organization using modern project management methodologies. • Technical Governance: Oversee the architecture, security, and integration of all new tools and features, establishing standards for data integrity and system reliability. Skills and Experience Required Strategic Leadership & Coaching: • Proven Leadership: 5+ years in a senior engineering leadership role (Director or VP) managing organizations of 20+ engineers, including managing other managers/leaders. • Coaching Expertise: Demonstrated track record of successfully mentoring, coaching, and developing engineering management talent. • Organizational Design: Experience structuring and scaling a software team for efficiency and sustainability. Domain Expertise & Technical Acumen: • MarTech/Subscription: Deep, hands-on understanding of the modern MarTech landscape. • Execution Management: Exceptional program and project management skills for large, cross-functional initiatives (spanning multiple systems and teams). Expertise with tools like Jira or similar. • Communication & Influence: Superior ability to communicate complex technical strategies clearly and confidently to executive leadership and translate business needs for technical teams. • Cloud Infrastructure: Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and operations. Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience. • 10+ years of progressive experience in software development • Experience in customer-facing websites and apps in a product technology environment. Location: This position can be based in our Boston, MA headquarters or is open to qualified remote applicants. Salary Range: $240,000 - $260,000 The range provided is based on what we reasonably expect to pay for this job as of the time of posting. The actual salary offered will be determined based on multiple factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, job-related knowledge, skills, geographical location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. About America’s Test Kitchen: The mission of America’s Test Kitchen (ATK) is to empower and inspire confidence, community, and creativity in the kitchen. Founded in 1992, the company is the leading multimedia cooking resource serving millions of fans with TV shows (America’s Test Kitchen, Cook's Country, and America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation), award-winning magazine (Cook’s Illustrated) and limited-edition newsstand issues, cookbooks, a podcast (Proof), FAST channels, short-form video series, and the ATK Essential Membership for digital content. Based in a state-of-the-art 15,000-square-foot test kitchen in Boston’s Seaport District, ATK has earned the trust of home cooks and culinary experts alike thanks to its one-of-a-kind processes and best-in-class techniques. Fifty full-time (admittedly very meticulous) test cooks, editors, and product testers spend their days tweaking every variable to find the very best recipes, equipment, ingredients, and techniques. Learn more at Why America’s Test Kitchen: We're passionate about cooking, and about creating the best place to work. We're small enough for your ideas to make a big impact, and large enough to offer you opportunities to grow professionally at any stage of your career. We want you to take risks and make mistakes — that's how innovation happens in our test kitchen, in our offices, and in life. We at America’s Test Kitchen believe food media can be a powerful force for social change. 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