Product Area Lead Engineer - Evaluate & Decide (Customer Domain)

Company Description


If you are a senior engineering leader, interested in leading a digital transformation, helping H&M Group build new capabilities and competences that will accelerate the growth as one of the largest fashion retailers, takes us towards more modern technology landscape, this is the job for you!
We are now looking for a Product Area Lead Engineer to lead our Evaluate & Decide product area within the Customer domain of our H&M Business Tech organization.
About this Product Area:
Evaluate & Decide is a new area we are creating within the Customer domain. This area focuses on the latter stage of the purchase journey, providing our customers with a relevant experience and information to help them make a confident purchase decision on our products, increasing our conversion and reducing unnecessary returns. This product area includes products such as Fit & Keep Product Story, Customer Feedback, and Experimentation. This area will take an omni-scope, considering digital and store channels, as well as all brands and regions across the H&M Group.


Job Description


You will co-lead the Evaluate & Decide product area, currently consisting of 8 product teams (approximately 70-120 people), together with the Product Area Manager.
You work with a focus to lead the technical development, architecture and engineering practices, and the required transformation to take it to the next level.
Your teams enable our customers to evaluate and decide on the right products, based on accurate recommendations, product fit & keep and detailed article data, building highly optimized, data-driven experiences using experimentation, web and visual analytics.
You will also be part of the Customer domain leadership team, where you will work closely with your fellow Product Area Lead Engineers to identify dependencies and align roadmaps as well as progress our digital transformation. In addition, you will build trusted relationships with collaboration partners across the H&M Group, inside and outside of Business Tech, and work closely with relevant partners to align the product area strategy with our brand strategies.
You will have staff responsibility/direct reports for all Competence Leads for Software Engineers in the area, supporting their growth and development as well as recruiting new talent. Together with your co-lead, you will support the product teams in your area to take a more customer-centric, agile approach (e.g., taking data-driven decisions, practicing a hypothesis-led approach).
Your responsibilities will include:
Responsible for overall engineering and technology architecture definition and decisions in the area, according to Enterprise Architecture guidelines.
Monitor vendors and market regularly for the latest technology and best practices.
Work with Enabling platform teams to secure efficient usage of technology platforms.
Own engineering quality and accountable for technical standards and systems in the area.
Responsible to provide input to QBR on critical technology priorities that will enable continued product development and scaling.
Ensure technical teams understand the overall direction, vision, delivery process and responsibilities for any given initiative.
Drive consistency in practice, process, toolset, and architecture within the area.
Responsibility for overall work environment of your team including creating an explorative environment and culture that embraces acting, learning, and adapting.



Qualifications
You have great leadership skills and believe in a culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. You empower others to fail, learn, and grow and celebrate success as much as failure. We believe that you are a curious leader, focused on value creation, growth and serving customers with full ownership and accountability. You have a holistic mindset and are skilled in breaking down silos, enabling collaboration, and empowering teams in a changing environment. We call this servant leadership.
We also believe that you have:
Ability to successfully lead an organization with 70-150 employees and 8-14 product teams in an agile environment.
At least 5+ years in a leadership/managerial position developing and scaling cutting-edge software products preferably from a retail/ecommerce industry.
Proven advanced training in information technology, computer science or equivalent.
Deep knowledge in modern architecture principles and distributed systems (e.g. API first, cloud-native modular application design, microservices, test automation, CI/CD), interest in the latest technology trends as well as experience in modernization approaches and migration patterns.
Experience in building data-driven e-com experiences using state-of-the-art front-end technologies.
Experience in large scale article and attribute management, product recommendations, and analytics.
Experience in conducting user research, usability testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping and analytics.
Ability to understand the complexity of H&M business and the role of foundational technology as an integrated part of the business
Fluency in business English.



Additional Information
Location: Stockholm preferred
We will be acting fast to fill these roles and interview on-going so please apply as soon as possible but not later than February 7th.
If you have any questions about the recruitment, please contact our recruiter – Nidhi Illman on nidhi.illman@hm.com