Head of Engineering & Platforms, Product Organization

Position Title: Head of Engineering & Platforms, Product Organization (R-132766)
Travel: Up to 25% travel with an expectation to be in the office 3 days a week.
Education: Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in engineering, computer science, or related technical field preferred.

This is a People Leader role. The incumbent must be currently based in or willing to relocate to the Atlanta, GA area and work a hybrid work schedule.

Digital products are central to how we create value, serve customers, and shape consumer experiences. Our product organization empowers small, agile teams to move with clarity, speed, and purpose, making digital a core advantage. We're raising our standards across product, design, and engineering, deepening user connection, and rebuilding our foundational systems end-to-end.

We are building an in-house engineering capability from the ground up, establishing the technical backbone for our digital products and platforms. This team will define the architecture and build resilient, scalable systems that accelerate value delivery and enable our product vision. If you are an engineering leader who has built modern, product-led organizations and wants to do it again at a meaningful scale, we want to meet you.

About the Role:

The Head of Engineering & Platforms is the senior leader responsible for building and scaling the product management team for core customer and commercial experience platforms and the engineering capability that powers digital products for North America. This is a foundational, entrepreneurial role: this engineering organization is in its infancy, and this leader will take it from 0 → 1, establishing the Product Operating Model culture, systems, and technical backbone for how we build software going forward in the largest operating unit ($18Bn+) in The Coca-Cola Company.

This leader sets the engineering vision and technical strategy across the Customer Experience Landscape, ensuring our products and platforms are resilient, secure, scalable, and designed for high-velocity iteration. They will build modern engineering teams, elevate engineering excellence, and establish a platform architecture that accelerates product discovery, delivery and the ability to measure outcomes across multiple markets, bottlers, and global ecosystems.

• Architect the Product Organization's long-term technical vision, strategy, and platform roadmap for North America product experiences.
• Lead build-vs-buy decisions, strategically blending SaaS with proprietary tech. Ensure agile, resilient, observable, API-first architecture.

• Build a 100-150+ person engineering organization from scratch, fully embedded in our Product Operating Model.
• Hire, develop, and mentor leaders and ICs across full-stack, mobile, platform, data, and quality.
• Foster a culture of empowerment, ownership, and technical excellence.

• Implement world-class engineering practices: advanced CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps, observability, and incident response.
• Instill end-to-end ownership with clear SLAs.
• Drive continuous improvement in reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency using AI-driven tools.

• Partner seamlessly with Product leadership on discovery, experimentation, and outcome delivery.
• Forge strategic alliances across North America and Global Digital & Technology, aligning technical strategy with business priorities.
• Embed engineering deeply in customer understanding.

• Accelerate market impact through shared platform capabilities.
• Introduce cutting-edge tech, AI, and automation to improve customer and operational outcomes.
• Champion innovation tied to measurable value: speed, reliability, cost, and impact. Influence global platform strategy.

• Direct accountability for engineering talent and delivery embedded in the Product Organization, including product and platform engineering teams.
• Ownership of a ~$40M+ annual product engineering investment portfolio, spanning engineering capacity, platforms, cloud, and SaaS.
• Build and scale a 100-150+ person product engineering organization, directly leading 6-10 senior engineering leaders.
• Shape multi-year product platform roadmaps and modernization initiatives in partnership with Product leadership.
• Influence broader technology strategy through collaboration and alignment, not enterprise ownership.

• How product teams are staffed, structured, and empowered
• Platform architecture that enables or constrains product velocity
• Build-vs-buy choices for product capabilities
• Reliability and customer impact within product experiences
• Long-term sustainability of the product engineering model

• Modernizes how the enterprise builds, tests, deploys, and operates digital products by introducing advanced engineering practices, automation, and AI-enabled development tools.
• Drives the creation of scalable, reusable platform services that allow product teams to move faster, reduce redundancy, and deliver consistent experiences across markets and channels.
• Leads the architecture and technical strategy that enable new digital capabilities, including real-time data, personalization, mobile performance, service reliability, and multi-entity integration.
• Champions experimentation and rapid learning, enabling engineering teams to test technical approaches, validate patterns, and iterate quickly, while maintaining high standards for reliability and security.
• Identifies emerging technologies and brings forward solutions that improve performance, cost efficiency, developer experience, and long-term system scalability.
• Ensures innovation is purposeful, tied to measurable business outcomes, and aligned with commercial, customer, and operational strategies.

• Directly leads 6-10 engineering leaders, including engineering managers, directors, principal engineers, product leaders, platform leads, and quality leaders.
• Builds and scales a 100-150+ person engineering organization from the ground up, creating product focused team models, leadership development programs, hiring standards, and systems that support rapid learning and capability growth.
• Designs the engineering organization structure, including team topology, decision rights, and operating mechanisms that support empowered product teams.
• Builds engineering leadership bench strength, coaches senior leaders, and ensures robust succession planning for critical technical and managerial roles.
• Defines engineering career paths, competency expectations, performance standards, and a talent philosophy consistent with world-class product engineering organizations.
• Creates a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement, ensuring teams are empowered and aligned to enterprise outcomes.

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in engineering, computer science, or related technical field preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive engineering experience, including both leadership roles and hands-on time building scalable solutions.
• 10+ years in a business-facing role with many non-technical stakeholders, recommending and executing a technical vision to deliver business value.
• 7+ years leading engineering organizations, with proven success managing engineering managers, technical leads, and senior ICs.
• 3+ years implementing and leading engineering teams operating with a product operating model preferred.
• Demonstrated experience building or scaling an engineering organization, ideally in a high-growth or transformation context where foundational structures and practices needed to be created.
• Proven track record co-leading with Product, Design, and Data in an empowered product model, including shared responsibility for discovery, prioritization, and outcome delivery.
• Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to translate technical considerations into business impacts and build alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in complex, multi-entity, global/local ecosystems with distributed decision rights and shared platforms.

• Iconic Brands: Work on the world's most recognized brands while helping shape the next chapter of how they show up digitally for consumers and customers.
• Access to world class leaders: Partner directly with senior marketing, product, and digital leaders across North America and globally, contributing to decisions that touch 2Bn+ servings every day.
• A culture of continuous learning: Invest in your growth through programs like Coke University, LinkedIn Learning, and leadership development initiatives designed to strengthen both technical and leadership capabilities.