Description

Next League is hiring a Vice President of Engineering to lead our team through its next phase of growth. This is a hands-on senior leadership role reporting to the Chief Digital Officer, with ownership of our delivery practices and the technical platforms that underpin work for our clients. This role will continue the acceleration of our engineering modernization, scale our use of AI across client deliverables, and raise the technical bar across every engagement.

• Advance our AI-assisted engineering operating model and expand our generative and agentic AI capabilities, in collaboration with the broader Next League staff.
• Drive continued improvement in architecture and delivery quality across client engagements.
• Help shape where Next League invests in proprietary capability, where we lean on platform partners, and where we integrate best-of-breed third-party technologies.
• Define and champion an AI-grounded multi-year technology roadmap aligned with business growth and client needs across leagues, federations, teams, venues, and media organizations.

Requirements

Team Leadership & Operating Model
Lead, mentor, and grow Next League’s engineering organization.
Evolve how the team builds: AI-assisted development workflows, strong technical standards, tight product/design/engineering collaboration, and fast prototyping-to-production paths.
Maintain and extend technical standards across Infrastructure as Code, source control discipline, CI/CD pipelines, microservices decomposition, security-by-design, and performance testing at scale.
Ensure resilient and scalable delivery for live sporting events and other business-critical client environments.

AI, Data & Platform Innovation
Scale Next League’s production AI engineering practice across the Marketing Tech and Media Tech solutions we deliver for clients.
Lead the design of observability and operations practices: component-level metrics, product-level evaluation, and integrated dashboards for live event monitoring.
Guide the design and scaling of fan data and revenue platforms that deliver personalized, real-time experiences that drive revenue for our clients’ audiences.

Client Partnership & Executive Engagement
Collaborate with client technical leaders to define and build architecture, AI, and delivery solutions that drive outcomes aligned with their business objectives. Contribute technical depth and thought leadership to proposals, pitches, and discovery work, including co-authored content with cloud and platform partners. Represent Next League at industry conferences, partner events, and in published insights.