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About the Role
About the Role
Squarespace is looking for a VP of Software Engineering to lead our Product Platform organization. Product Platform exists to solve the problems that cut across every product team so those teams can ship better products, faster. Your customers are internal: the product teams taking Squarespace to market. What you own is the layer underneath them, spanning identity and access, user accounts, our design system, media, communications, APIs and service frameworks, the external developer environment, and the shared AI capabilities behind our newest products.
This is a platform-as-product leadership role - your mission is to consolidate overlapping capabilities, drive adoption of shared foundations, and turn the platform into a source of velocity and product quality.
We’re looking for someone who is excited to grow a leadership team, and who has demonstrated experience operating as a close partner to infrastructure, product management and commercial teams.
This position reports to Squarespace’s President and is based in NYC (3x/week hybrid).
About Squarespace
Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions of customers in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence, build an audience, monetize, and scale their business. Our suite of products range from websites, domains, ecommerce, and marketing tools, as well as tools for scheduling with Acuity and creating and managing social media presence with Bio Sites and Unfold. Our team of more than 1,700 is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland, and Aveiro, Portugal.
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Own the multi-year product strategy for Squarespace's product platform capabilities, from identity and accounts to design systems, communications, media, and developer-facing APIs
- check_circle Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineering managers across multiple platform domains
- check_circle Define what "platform as a product" means in practice: adoption metrics, internal customer feedback loops, intake and prioritization mechanisms, and clear service expectations
- check_circle Drive consolidation of fragmented and overlapping systems while sustaining delivery for the product teams that depend on them
- check_circle Shape the external developer experience — public APIs, documentation, and extensibility — as a growth surface, not just an integration layer
- check_circle Partner with product, design, security, and data leadership on architecture, sequencing, and investment trade-offs
- check_circle Influence company-level product planning so platform investments are shaped with the business, not downstream of it
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check 15+ years of engineering management experience, including leading engineering teams and developing technical leaders
- check Deep experience in platform engineering management: internal platforms, developer platforms, or shared services adopted by multiple product teams — you've owned adoption as a success metric, not just delivery
- check Fluency in at least some of this role's domains: identity/auth, design systems, APIs and extensibility, notifications/communications, or account experiences
- check Track record of driving consolidation or modernization across fragmented systems without stalling the teams that depend on them
- check Strong technical judgment; comfortable in architecture conversations with senior engineers while staying firmly in the product seat
- check Executive presence: you can make platform investment legible and compelling to a CPO, CFO, and board-level audience
- check Experience balancing internal customers, external developers, and end-user impact in one portfolio
About Squarespace Greenhouse Board
Verified hiring organization details.
Squarespace Greenhouse Board refers to the centralized recruitment and talent acquisition infrastructure utilized by Squarespace, a New York City-based technology company specializing in website building and hosting platforms. The board serves as the primary interface for managing the company's global hiring pipeline, candidate tracking, and talent operations, facilitating the recruitment of engineering, product, and design talent to support the company's integrated suite of web publishing tools and e-commerce solutions.