Job Description

Company Description
Are you a senior tech leader passionate about creating customer and business value using modern technology? Would you like to take part in shaping the future experience for customers around the globe and across multiple brands? Are you interested in leading a digital transformation, helping us build new capabilities and competencies that will accelerate the growth of one of the largest fashion retailers? We are now looking for a Product Area Lead Engineer to lead our Digital Checkout product area within the Customer domain of our H&M Business Tech organization. About this Product Area: Digital Checkout’s mission is to provide a seamless and efficient digital checkout experience for our customers, built on modern, decoupled common omni-capabilities usable across any touchpoint. Working closely with collaboration partners within Business Tech and across the company, your teams will ensure we understand the needs of both our customers and our store colleagues to develop and deploy solutions that deliver an exceptional experience and achieve the ambition of our healthy, relevant store portfolio. The area is responsible for supporting all brands and regions across the H&M Group.


As Product Area Lead Engineer, 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. You will co-lead the Digital Checkout product area, currently consisting of 9 product teams (approximately 80 people), together with the Product Area Manager. 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). 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. 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 your product 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, 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:

• The ability to successfully lead an organization with 80-100 employees and 8-10 product teams
• At least 5+ years in a technical leadership/managerial position developing and scaling software products preferably from a larger retail industry, driving modern and efficient digital & omni experiences, and preferably successful checkout solutions
• Familiarity and interest in the customer and retail and e-com trends
• 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 and DevOps), interest in the latest technology trends as well as experience in modernization approaches and migration patterns.
• Ability to understand the complexity of H&M business and the role of foundational technology as an integrated part of the business.
• Consistent track record of creating customer and business value through modern technology, including experience working with OKRs
• Superb communication and collaboration skills, with experience bringing together multiple stakeholders across teams to align on a common mission
• Fluency in business English.

Additional Information
H&M is committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability, or age.