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: Bachelors degreerequired;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 torelocateto the Atlanta, GA area andworka 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'reraising 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,establishingthe technicalbackbone for our digital productsand platforms.This team will definethe architectureand build resilient, scalable systems that accelerate value delivery and enable our product vision. If you are anengineering leaderwho hasbuiltmodern, product-led organizations andwants to do it againata 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 corecustomer andcommercialexperience 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, andestablisha platform architecture that acceleratesproduct discovery,deliveryand the ability to measure outcomes across multiple markets, bottlers, and global ecosystems. The Head of Engineering & Platforms is a critical partner to leaders across the enterprise within both North America and the globe. Together, they shape integrated digital experiences and ensure engineering is tightly embedded in discovery, experimentation, and the delivery ofcustomer, partner, and associate facing solutions. This role requires deep technical judgment, business acumen, a product-oriented mindset, and the ability to build and scale engineering capabilities in a complex, multi-entity operating environment. The leader will define not just how we build technology, but how technology creates true business value and a strategic advantage for the System. What You'll Do for Us Key Responsibilities: Define Engineering Vision & Strategy: ArchitecttheProductOrganizationslong-term technical vision, strategy, and platform roadmapfor North Americaproduct experiences. Lead build-vs-buy decisions, strategically blending SaaS with proprietary tech. Ensure agile, resilient, observable, API-first architecture.
Build & Scale a Product-Led Engineering Org: 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.
Drive Engineering Excellence & Velocity: 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.
Champion Cross-Functional Leadership: 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 deeplyincustomer understanding.
Ignite Innovation & Platform Leverage: Accelerate market impact through shared platform capabilities. Introducecutting-edgetech, AI, and automation to improve customer and operational outcomes. Champion innovation tied to measurable value: speed, reliability, cost, and impact. Influence global platform strategy.
Scope & Impact: 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 100150+ person product engineering organization, directly leading 610 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.
Complexity & Judgement: The Product Organizationoperateswithin a deeply matrixed system spanning Company Operating Units, global platforms, and bottling partners. This role demands strong judgment in balancing product autonomy, enterprise standards, and platform reuse. Decisions made in this role shape: 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 productexperiences Long-term sustainability of the product engineering model
The judgment bar is high, with accountability centered on product outcomes, platform durability, and team effectiveness. INNOVATION
Modernizes how the enterprise builds, tests, deploys, andoperatesdigital 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,validatepatterns, and iterate quickly, whilemaintaininghigh standardsfor reliability and security. Identifiesemerging technologies and brings forward solutions that improve performance, cost efficiency, developer experience, and long-term system scalability. Ensuresinnovation ispurposeful, tied to measurable business outcomes, and aligned with commercial, customer, and operational strategies.
This leadersetsthe technical foundation and cultural norms that will shape the organizations innovation capacity for years to come. SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Directly leads 610 engineering leaders, including engineering managers, directors, principal engineers, product leaders, platform leads, and quality leaders. Builds and scales a 100150+ person engineering organization from the ground up, creatingproductfocusedteam models, leadership development programs, hiring standards, and systems that support rapid learning and capabilitygrowth. 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.
What You'll Need REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelors degreerequired;advanced degree in engineering, computer science, or related technical field preferred. 15+ years of progressive engineering experience, includingboth leadershiproles 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+ yearsleadingengineering organizations, with proven success managing engineering managers, technical leads, and senior ICs. 3+ years implementing and leadingengineering teamsoperatingwith 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. Proventrack recordco-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 tooperatein complex, multi-entity, global/local ecosystems with distributed decision rights and shared platforms.
What We Can DoForYou
Iconic Brands: Work on theworlds most recognized brands while helping shape the next chapter of how they show up digitally forconsumers and customers. Access to world class leaders: Partner directly with senior marketing, product, and digital leaders across North America and globally, contributing todecisionsthattouch 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.
Skills: Product Vision; Agile Methodology; Product Design; Product Organization; Product Management Leadership; Data Designing; Delivering Value; Engineering Development; Digital Capabilities; Platform Strategy; Digital TechnologyThe Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States. 
Pay Range:$210,000 - $237,000 Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:50 Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.
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