About the company
Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, serving millions of customers in over 200 countries.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineering managers across multiple platform domains
- Define what "platform as a product" means in practice: adoption metrics, internal customer feedback loops, intake and prioritization mechanisms
- Drive consolidation of fragmented and overlapping systems while sustaining delivery
- Shape the external developer experience — public APIs, documentation, and extensibility
- Partner with product, design, security, and data leadership on architecture, sequencing, and investment trade-offs
- Influence company-level product planning
Requirements
- 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
- Fluency in at least some domains: identity/auth, design systems, APIs and extensibility, notifications/communications, or account experiences
- Track record of driving consolidation or modernization across fragmented systems
- Strong technical judgment
- Executive presence
- Experience balancing internal customers, external developers, and end-user impact
Conditions
- Based in NYC (3x/week hybrid)
- Reports to Squarespace's President
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Fertility and adoption benefits, Headspace subscription, retirement benefits with employer match
- Flexible paid time off, 12 weeks paid parental leave
- Education reimbursement, donation match, ERGs, dog-friendly workplace, free lunch and snacks, hack week twice per year