# VP of Engineering, Product Platform at Squarespace

- Company: Squarespace
- What the company does: Create a website and grow your business with a free Squarespace trial. Start with customizable website templates, AI website builder tools, or a domain name. Backed by Accel and Index.
- Company website: http://www.squarespace.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $375K to $450K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: http://www.squarespace.com/about/careers?gh_jid=8159503
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/squarespace-vp-of-engineering-product-platform/

## 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 they're looking for

- 15+ years of engineering management experience, including leading engineering teams and developing technical leaders
- 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
- Fluency in at least some of this role's domains: identity/auth, design systems, APIs and extensibility, notifications/communications, or account experiences
- Track record of driving consolidation or modernization across fragmented systems without stalling the teams that depend on them
- Strong technical judgment, comfortable in architecture conversations with senior engineers while staying firmly in the product seat
- Executive presence: you can make platform investment legible and compelling to a CPO, CFO, and board-level audience

Tags: Engineering