VP of Platform Engineering

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Data science techniques, DevOps, Effective communication skills, GraphQL, Machine learning techniques, Planning and organization

Job Description

At Realtor.com, we are building products that empower millions of home buyers, renters, dreamers, and real estate professionals. We aim to radically simplify the home buying/selling process, and to help more people achieve the dream of home ownership. To help us achieve this mission, we are looking for a VP of Platform Engineering to drive the long-term data engineering strategy.

As a part of our team, you’ll engage with an amazing and inclusive group of teammates and leaders, learn and innovate, have a huge impact, and have a great time doing it. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment and have a desire to grow yourself while making a meaningful impact on our business and users, then make the move!

In this role, you will provide technology leadership, partner closely with company leadership, align roadmaps to business outcomes, and lead a diverse and distributed team of highly-skilled engineers. You’ll be a key member of the Engineering Leadership team, reporting to the CPTO. Let’s make a difference, together.

Responsibilities Include:

What You’ll Do

• Lead all of our core platform teams including data, content, AI/ML, Martech, developer platform and search engineering teams as we continue to scale, and build a high-performance, world-class engineering organization
• Evangelize and champion paved path adoption across our engineering organization
• Own the technical vision for our core platform that supports the company’s long-term strategic goals
• Partner with company leadership to develop a technology strategy that enables our products and user experiences to be more data-driven and deeply personalized
• Be an advocate for our users, and drive innovation in the consumer experience of home shoppers, renters and sellers
• Provide passionate, innovative and inspiring leadership and support for our data and content engineering organization
• Partner closely with tech leaders across News Corp Global Tech and help shape direction of parent company tech strategy
• Work closely with data scientists on data exploration and scale our machine learning platform
• Connect an obsession with the consumer to data-driven decision-making and the need for a world-class cloud data platform
• Recruit strong engineering talent that represents the diversity of our audience, with clear and consistent hiring strategies
• Build and maintain a culture of humility, execution excellence, collaboration, mentorship, and open feedback

Who You Are

• An analytical and thoughtful leader who leverages data and metrics to drive decision-making
• Prior experience leading an engineering organization of 75 or more developers
• Passionate about building and scaling engineering orgs that emphasize an inclusive culture, with teams that are both eager to learn and deeply curious
• Extensive experience with architecture and design of large-scale data platforms, including batch, streaming and real-time data processing
• Experience with modern platform stacks (e.g graph QL, modern DevOps, Containerization etc)
• A highly-collaborative partner, who enjoys working closely with product management, science and analytics teams to align the organization on joint goals
• An engaging communicator, who makes complex and nuanced topics accessible to the larger organization through relevant examples and storytelling
• Have demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior executives and managing stakeholders
• Have proven experience attracting, retaining, and growing top engineering talent

Location:

This role is hybrid out of Austin, TX. We balance accelerated creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration and flexibility, from inside and outside of our office walls. For this role, one can work three days of their choice in our Austin office and the remaining two days from home.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, realtor.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, realtor.com will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. People are our foundation—the core that drives us passionately forward. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.