VP of Engineering (@Remote)

Job Description

Do you get excited by data? Does the idea of “feed item ranking” make you want to dive in? Do you want to be at the center of all of our key initiatives, improving the value of everything we deliver?

Are you looking for a role where you can impact the success of every single team at one of Seattle’s most successful startups? A role where you can figure out how we apply data and analytics to our most critical decisions, ensure that OfferUp is available to all our customers, and create a secure platform for everyone?

We are looking for a VP of Platform Engineering to lead our horizontal teams, with a primary focus on data and relevance:

Transform our Data Platform

The primary focus of this role is massively increase the velocity at which we better understand our buyers, sellers and products and how they interact on our platform, enabling experiences that will unlock revenue.

You will deliver a data infrastructure that provides accurate and timely information to the business and allows us to rapidly release/maintain models, rapidly test and learn across all of engineering, and scale as rapidly with our business.

Being successful here is less about knowing the latest ML buzzwords and more about understanding how the right data at the right time to the right person makes all the difference, and how to operationalize ML and data analytics to support the business.

Deliver a secure, highly-available, cost-effective infrastructure

In addition, you will achieve a public-company quality information security posture, drive our cloud infrastructure and strategy, and define customer-centric availability for all of engineering.

Success involves navigating competing priorities, investing in the right tools, and creating the right safeguards and process.

Delight OfferUp employees with high-quality tools

And finally, define and execute on a strategy for developing/supporting and maintaining key internal tools for developers, NOC, Customer Service, and other internal customers.

This role can be in Bellevue, Washington or @Remote in the following states: Washington, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia.

Here’s more of what you will get to do:

• Influence and Interact regularly with c-staff and the board of directors
• Define strategies across the entire company
• Solve large, open-ended, problems with multiple tradeoffs and competing priorities
• Regularly influence cross functional leaders with contributions to discussions and decisions at the highest levels
• Drive a culture of incremental delivery and innovation

You’ll thrive in this role if you have: (All OfferUp employees are required to receive full Covid-19 vaccinations, per CDC guidelines. OfferUp will review accommodation requests due to a medical reason, or because of a sincerely held religious belief.)

• “Think big, act fast”
• Experience with modern data science, ML / AI concepts and how to effectively operationalize them
• Experience with a “devops” culture
• Shipped large scale products in an agile environment
• Able to lead at a high level, or dive into the details as needed
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with product management
• Demonstrated ability to work in ambiguous environments across diverse stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to set an ambitious goal and work toward it incrementally, validating our hypotheses and delivering end user value along the way
• Proven history of shipping/managing products in highly collaborative environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with non-technical and technical audiences across all levels of the organization
• Good emotional intelligence
• 15+ years of relevant work experience, including 7+ years of management experience

Helpful, but not required:

• Experience with Information Security
• Experience with 24x7 Operations
• Experience at both public companies and startups

About OfferUp:

OfferUp is dedicated to changing the way people buy and sell in their communities. As the largest mobile marketplace for local buyers and sellers in the U.S., the company offers iOS and Android apps that make selling an item as easy as snapping a picture from your mobile device. Founded in April 2011, OfferUp is reinventing local commerce by helping consumers uncover value through simplicity and trust. In 2020, OfferUp combined with letgo to reach more than 20M monthly users.

More About OfferUp At a Glance

• #2 U.S. shopping app in Q1 of ‘21, Top 5 in App Store and Google Play Store for three years.
• 100M+ Downloads, 20M+ monthly users
• 56M People used OfferUp last year (1 in 4 people over the age of 14)
• OfferUp works directly with nearly 2,000 US law enforcement agencies to build trust in local communities by creating safe in-person locations for OfferUp transactions.
• Billions of dollars worth of transactions are facilitated via the OfferUp marketplace every month

OfferUp is changing the way people buy and sell locally, and we’ve built a dynamic team to do it. To learn more about what it’s like to work at OfferUp, check out our blog: https://blog.offerup.com

OfferUp provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, OfferUp complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

OfferUp expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of OfferUp’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.