Position Summary:
Peloton is looking for a Director of Engineering – Ecommerce Web Content that will help scale Peloton’s $1+ billion ecommerce channel. This leader will be responsible for growing an expert team and executing the roadmap of innovative features by partnering with your peers in product management, design, marketing, member support, and international teams. You should have a passion for the web, ecommerce, technical and operational excellence, and relentlessly championing best practices in a continuously evolving and dynamic environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, and mentor a team of engineering managers and staff engineers for professional development
- Align our technology with the goals of the business and strategic objectives
- Manage and identify organizational-wide risk, dependencies and remove blockers when needed
- Define and deliver the technical roadmap for multiple quarters to a year
- Drive continuous improvement using data and information from teams to identify issues and ways to improve
- Lead by example and serve as a role model for the company by building a culture of learning, respect, transparency, and trust
- Build the toolset and platform required to accelerate experimentation, optimize for performance, and enable faster rollout of marketing landing pages with minimal development impact
- Facilitate technical discussions across teams and organizations
- Establish technical KPIs to measure the effectiveness of your teams and impact on acquisition metrics
- Evangelize and advocate for technical and operational excellence
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members from Product, Design, and Marketing in order to deliver against quarterly and annual roadmap initiatives.
- Deliver top of funnel, engagement, and personalization features that drive higher purchase intent and improve conversion
- Instill a culture of ownership, learning, automation, re-use, and engineering efficiency through the use of common design patterns and industry best practices.
Required Education & Experience:
- Strong project management skills with the ability to scope and assess the risk of large development and testing efforts that span multiple teams and organizations in a high-paced, high-growth environment
- Proven experience with modern front-end web technologies, architectures, and building high performant user-friendly experiences on the web.
- Subject matter expertise in e-commerce
- You earn trust with your direct team and stakeholders: you listen, you are inclusive, you treat others with respect, and you are willing to be vocally self-critical
- 5+ years managing and leading engineering teams
- 10+ years of experience in building highly scalable software products and platforms
- Strong customer obsession: you enjoy obsessing over getting the customer experience right
- Excellent communication, listening, and collaboration skills
- Strong understanding of Agile, Lean, and DevOps principles