Vice President Of Engineering

For the past 25 years, Forum One has been turning ideas into impact. We’re a digital agency that works to extend the influence of our clients on important issues in health, education, the environment, and more.  Every day, our team of more than 140 digital strategists, engineers, designers, and creators help leading nonprofit organizations and government agencies make an impact in the world.  We're also an employee-owned (ESOP) company that treats our team with respect, advances their careers, and is actively working to be a more diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible organization. This is your opportunity to join a company helping those doing good in the world – do more, reach more, and achieve more!

As VP of Engineering you will play the key leadership role to ensure that Forum One delivers technical solutions that help our clients in their world-changing work. You will lead all aspects of our technical services – our largest team in the company.

What you’ll do:  

• You’ll set the technical roadmap to guide our growth, and manage the senior team in steering us in operations and engineering improvement – across overall technical strategy, digital experience development, developer operations, website  hosting, and more.   
• You’ll be closely involved in marketing, thought leadership, and business development to grow the business.
• You’ll ensure we have the skills, systems, and oversight to deliver high quality technical work to meet client needs. You’ll work closely with all our services teams to ensure we deliver integrated solutions.
• You’ll lead the recruiting, career development, and management of our diverse and growing 40+ person technical services team. 
• You’ll be a part of Forum One senior leadership team, setting company direction, and helping us advance as a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible organization. 
• You’ll work closely with the CEO and other VPs across the company every day.
• You'll manage a substantial budget for staff development and training, and technical infrastructure.

What would be nice: 

• Proprietary digital experience platforms (e.g., Sitecore)
• API-based systems and services  integration (e.g., Salesforce)
• Data visualization development
• Cloud engineering and monitoring (AWS, micro services)
• Experience with SAAS hosting platforms (Pantheon, Acquia, Platform.sh)
• Software testing and quality assurance tools
• Location near our offices in the Seattle area or Washington DC area is a plus. 

Why you’ll love it here:

• Working with talented, highly motivated colleagues, you’ll be part of a team that is building a great organization while serving important clients who are changing the world.
• Competitive salary and benefits, 401(k) match, Commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts .
• Participation in the Forum One Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), which is a non-profit trust that owns a majority of the company for the financial benefit of our employee owners. 
• Flexible schedules, excellent office work environments (when relevant!), emphasis on employee growth and development – including tuition reimbursement..
• 15 Vacation days (starting), in addition to Sick Leave & Floating Holidays, and paid parental leave, and company-provided laptops.

What we value:

• We’re passionate about our work – our clients’ missions matter, and we apply our passion in support of clients who are addressing the most critical global issues.
• We’re great partners – we’re collaborative, approachable, creative, inclusive, and reliable.
• We’re continuous learners – we are always expanding, refining, and improving our craft, value, and impact—as individuals and as a team.
• We’re inquisitive problem solvers – we’re dedicated to finding the right solution, which requires actively engaging varied perspectives, and approaching our work with flexibility, humility,  and open minds.
• We get things done – we are thoughtful and thorough, but we don’t waste time or hesitate to tackle problems head on.
• We do the right thing – we make decisions for Forum One and our clients with the highest integrity, respect, fairness, and honesty. 

Forum One contracts with the federal government, subjecting it to federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Forum One will require you to be vaccinated. Forum One will permit limited medical and religious exemptions. Upon offer of employment, you will be asked to provide your vaccination status.

Forum One provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetics.