Senior Director of Engineering
Description
This is a new role that reports in to the Chief Product Officer, and looks after the tech team. You'll partner with the Senior Director of Product to help evolve our technology platform. Part of our long-term vision is the creation of a platform that transcends the barriers to entry for many entrepreneurs in fashion. Our intent is to make a career in personal shopping accessible to anyone with passion for luxury. We will do this using data science, and technology to provide the tools and physical operations to anyone, anywhere in the world to work at any time. We will do this by having the most technologically advanced platform and intuitive technology that helps our shoppers provide unrivalled customer service.
We are very open to all types of flexible working, please ask us at the interview stage.
Requirements
You Will:
Develop the technology team through a nurturing and transformational leadership style
Provide guidance to the engineering manager and technical leads who report to you
Develop cross functional squads and coach them to achieve our OKRs
Provide technical direction and solutions that are appropriate for the size of the challenges
Collaborate with product management team to bring together disparate systems in to a coherent platform to help us deliver on our mission
You Have:
Worked with social or e-commerce back office technical solutions
Experience setting up and gaining support for new processes and technologies
Technical expertise gained in e-commerce or social media companies
Experience identifying what solutions to build, buy or partner on
Worked in an early growth stage product organisation embedding technology processes
Benefits
Enhanced Parental Leave
Private medical insurance
Stock Options
Cycle to work scheme
Gym membership discounts
About Threads:
Want to help build the future of luxury fashion commerce? If so, you’ve come to the right place.
Threads is a creative, luxury fashion personal shopping and commerce business. Through social and chat-based media, we inspire our international client base to discover the rarest luxury items. We then search the globe to procure them for our clients; this is the future of retail.
Threads is in Tech City’s Future Fifty programme which recognises some of the UK’s fastest growing businesses, pioneering the best luxury shopping experience in the world!
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
Equity in selection practices
We do practise equity in selection because we want to provide underrepresented groups with access to opportunities, and us, access to great people We ask candidates to share their demographic data in the application so that we can prioritise under represented groups in the first part of our selection process to provide an equitable funnel. All candidate offers are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. If we have two candidates at the final stage, we choose the best candidate for the job.