Technical Director

As a Tech Director - Retail, you will be a key early hire to lead our frontend developer team. You will pair your natural design instincts with a strong engineering and development foundation to build an intuitive, user-friendly experiences that retail consumers can interact with and leverage every day. You will bring experience as a technology leader and work hand-in-hand with media strategy, analytics, creative, and campaign strategy teams, facilitating the execution and proper tracking of all go-to-market retail technology initatives.
 
Experience required :

• Lead a team of front end and back end developers and work together on the critical

• path of retail projects

• Use modern web technologies to design and code responsive applications

• Partner with product leaders and designers to design amazing customer experiences

• Identify and utilize best in class retail technology partners

• Architect, implement and maintain best in class in-store technology experiences such as QR, AR, VR, interactive touchscreens etc.

• Work with Strategy, Creative, Project Management and Resource Management to deliver on time and in budget

• Identify and implement latest and greatest technology tools and processes

• Create and maintain tech documentation

• Management and leadership in developing teams in an Agile environment and being the voice of technology in a creative process

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar

• 6+ years relative work experience

• Strong understanding of web development and design constraints/possibilities preferred (HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular JS, Bootstrap, NodeJS, and Socket.io)

• Proven expertise with ad serving and DCO platforms with previous RFI / platform evaluation and on-boarding experience

• Expertise in retail technologies (QR, AR, VR, etc.)

• Strategic mindset to projects to be able to negotiate with clients in order to bring a technical vision to life. Having a balance of high-level and tactical mindsets is a must,

• as you will spend time both with clients and alongside your fellow teammates.

 
The Ideal Match:

• Process-driven and organized mindset; experienced and highly comfortable with establishing net new workflows from the ground up

• Strong knowledge and expereince in Retail.

• Experience leading teams on all parts of the stack (front end, backend, and middleware)

• Ability to solve complex design challenges with creativity, efficiency and with precision

• Keen sense of evaluating prioritization; Comfortability with communicating ongoing shifts in workflows and urgencies to your team

• Experience influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed

• Must be self-directed, confident, detailed, hands on and able to work in a fast-paced environment

• Hold weekly one-on-one meetings with each team member to discuss wins, issues,

• and to work on goal setting / advancement

• Excellent communication, both written and spoken to speak distill information for technical and non-technical teams

• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives

• Experience leading automation solutions

• Experience using code best practices and code repositories

• Proficient with API design and other 3rd party integrations

• Proficient with Microsoft Office 365 and Workfront, a plus

• Constantly curious about all things retail tech