Vice President, Software Engineering

SIDEARM is the digital home of college athletics: the websites, the apps, the live video, the live stats, the content that turns a game into a season and a season into a lifelong allegiance. We are now rebuilding that platform from the ground up — and we are hiring the engineering leader who will lead us into the future. As Vice President of Software Engineering, you lead a team of 35+ engineers and own every software engineering discipline at SIDEARM — web, mobile, API and platform — and you are accountable for the craft, speed and reliability of everything we ship.

You report to Learfield's Chief Data and Technology Officer and sit on the SIDEARM leadership team. This is a builder's seat. You will set the engineering pace, grow the people who meet it, and deliver a modern platform that carries college sports fandom for the next decade.

Game day does not move for your release schedule, and that is exactly what makes this job fun. Essential Duties &

The Mandate AI-first. Embrace agentic AI in the PDLC and establish the right agents, the right governance and the right outcomes, at a pace that wows our schools and their fans. Rebuild the platform.

Lead the complete re-architecture of SIDEARM's products onto a modern CMS and cloud-native foundation, with a delivery pipeline that makes releasing routine. Make SIDEARM a world-class software organization. Install the practices that separate great software companies from the rest — technical standards, review and t