Director of Engineering - Size & Fit (All Genders) at Zalando
Zürich, ZH, Switzerland -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

07 Aug, 25

Salary

0.0

Posted On

07 May, 25

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Data Engineering, Clear Vision, Stakeholder Management

Industry

Information Technology/IT

Description
Responsibilities

THE ROLE

As Director of Engineering Size and Fit, you will be responsible for delivering customer centric, data-driven products that change the game for our customers and brand partners when it comes to finding the right fit. You will be leading leaders of our engineering organisation, spanning: Fullstack, Data, R&D, and App engineering. You will define and own our engineering strategy, technical roadmaps and delivery processes.
More broadly, you will establish a trusted relationship with your product, design and applied science counterparts and together define, own and execute on the long term vision and strategy. In addition, hiring strong talent to build up your teams and create an engineering organisation that is set up for long term growth and success.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS - WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF:

  • Prior experience having built and scaled a Virtual Try On solution, seeing scale through to XXm users.
  • Authentic and inspiring technical leader with a clear vision, collaborative approach, and commitment to build, empower and coach a high-performing engineering organisation.
  • 7+ years of Engineering leadership experience, including leading complex organisations of managers of managers, and built and led geographically-distributed engineering teams.
  • Depth of technical expertise within data engineering and moving ML-based solutions into production, to deliver compelling and delightful user experiences.
  • Prior exposure to Virtual Try On / 3D / Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality / Avatar solutions.
  • Highly collaborative; experience partnering closely with Applied Science, Product, and wider Engineering counterparts to craft overarching strategy and vision for a domain.
  • Highly strategic and analytical thinker.
  • Outstanding stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills; adept at translating technical strategy into business impact and vice versa.
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