VP, Platform Engineering
Frontify
| Company | Frontify |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Sankt Gallen Metropolitan Area |
| Remote | Hybrid |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Director |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 29 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (ashby) |
Description
Frontify is the brand platform for leading organizations such as Volkswagen, Microsoft, and Telefónica. We make brands usable by every team that works on them — governed in one place, extended into every tool where the work happens, and readable by the AI that’s now part of the process.
Collaboration and curiosity drive us, and neither stops at an office door. Frontify started in St. Gallen and now works out of London and New York too, and wherever you sit, you’ll own real work.
We're all about helping brands turn ideas into impact.
Frontify’s brand platform transforms how teams organize digital assets, collaborate on projects, and create engaging campaigns. Our people empower thousands of marketers and designers — including teams at Uber, Microsoft, Volkswagen, and Telefónica — to build engaging brands.
With headquarters in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and offices in London and New York City, we share a vibrant culture built on creativity, collaboration, inclusion, and joy. And we’re on the lookout for new team members to share our vision. If you’re ready for a brand-new adventure, keep reading!
Your team
Your new team is a group of motivated, collaborative, and innovative Engineers. Working on-site, hybrid, or fully remote, they come together to create and evolve a well-loved product but always keep room for new ideas and approaches. Outside of work, they’re parents, gamers, bookworms, adrenaline junkies, and so much more.
Your Mission
As the Vice President of Platform Engineering, you lead a team of around 20 engineers and 4 managers across backend platform, frontend platform, DevOps, architecture, accessibility, and quality assurance. You set the platform technology strategy and own its execution.
Every product engineer builds on the platform you own, from cloud infrastructure to the internal developer platform to our AI tooling. Your mandate is to remove friction at the source, so stream-aligned product teams ship more, at higher quality.
Growing the people on your team matters as much as the platform itself. You mentor your engineers and managers, and you provide them with the support to develop in their roles and careers.
This role reports to the CPO/ CPTO and sits on the Product leadership team. Your closest partner is the VP of Product Engineering. You jointly set the priorities that determine where the platform invests, so the work you ship aligns with real product needs.
What you'll own
- Strategic platform leadership
You bring a strategic lens to the platform org. Reading where teams lose time, you identify leverage points and turn them into a clear, prioritized roadmap so the org invests in the highest-impact work first.
Tech debt is a deliberate choice in your hands. You make the technical calls that reduce friction and let product teams ship faster at higher quality.
The platform's security posture is yours. You surface platform-level vulnerabilities and close them before they become incidents.
The platform surfaces you're accountable for
- Internal Developer platform (IDP) and tooling that lowers cognitive load for stream-aligned teams.
- AI platform: model gateway over external providers, eval infrastructure, agent frameworks, LLM observability, safety controls.
- Infrastructure, cloud, and DevOps: reliability, scalability, cost efficiency.
- Frontend platform: design system, component library, shared build tooling.
- Backend platform: shared services, APIs, data infrastructure.
- Quality engineering: test automation, eval frameworks, quality standards.
- Architecture and technical standards across the engineering org.
- Security posture and platform-level vulnerabilities, ensuring they're accounted for and attended to.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
- You measure developer experience and act on what the numbers tell you.
- Product teams spend more time on
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