Senior Engineering Manager, Stitchfix
Mobile Experience
$163.5-240.5k
This position is eligible for new hire and ongoing grants of restricted stock units depending on employee and company performance
Online personal styling
Be an early applicant
Online personal styling
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$163.5-240.5k
This position is eligible for new hire and ongoing grants of restricted stock units depending on employee and company performance
1001+ employees
Company mission
To change the way people find clothes they love by combining technology with the personal touch of seasoned style experts.
Role
Who you are
- Success in this role requires strong communication, people management, data analysis, technical expertise, and relationship-building skills
- Success in this role requires the ability to know when to listen, coach, influence, advocate, and lead effectively
- Our engineering team partners across the company to deliver high-value solutions and operates in an agile, collaborative, and multi-time-zone environment
- You have 5+ years of experience cultivating and managing diverse, inclusive, and high-performing engineering teams
- You bring 7+ years of experience building and rapidly scaling real-time solutions within the software engineering discipline
- You have 3+ years of experience with hands-on native mobile application development
- You excel at hiring, promoting, and performing talent reviews for software engineers with care and intention
- You’ve successfully led product engineering teams working on customer-facing and/or business-critical systems
- You have experience leveraging observability and data analysis tools like Datadog and Looker
- You are familiar with the iOS and Google Play release processes and release monitoring
- You understand modern iOS development tech stacks and best practices
- You possess excellent analytical skills and communicate effectively across multiple modalities
- You take initiative,operate with accountability and deliver results
- You are bright, kind, and motivated by challenge
- You can prioritize, simplify, and make a path toward results and not dwell on perfection
- You might have experience managing remote or co-located software engineering teams
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager with a background in native mobile development to lead a group of 8-10 mobile engineers that craft new and improve existing features within our mobile applications
- The Mobile Experience team works closely with other engineers, product management, data science, UX design, finance, enterprise analytics, and others to enable great client outcomes
- Our mobile applications are a key area in which our clients engage and communicate with Stitch Fix
- Your work will have a direct impact on the user journeys and capabilities of our iOS and Android apps. This role reports directly to the Senior Director of Core Experience
- At Stitch Fix, engineering managers focus on people management, team culture, strategic alignment, and operational execution
- Lead a team of 8-10 software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and teamwork while supporting their professional growth through feedback, delegation, coaching, and mentorship
- Drive the team’s roadmap and prioritize features and technical investments in alignment with stakeholders, cross-functional partners, and other engineering teams to deliver customer and business value
- Build a diverse and talented team by sourcing, identifying, and hiring candidates from a broad range of backgrounds, ensuring inclusivity and complementing the team’s strengths and capabilities
- Define and align the team’s scope, goals, and key metrics with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and leadership
- Guide architectural and implementation decisions to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost-effective engineering solutions
- Establish and maintain effective processes, ceremonies, and norms to ensure the team operates as a healthy, self-organized unit
- Take accountability for the team’s performance and consistently deliver sustainable, measurable results
- Build strong partnerships across the organization, gaining alignment and support to achieve desired outcomes
- Use high-quality data analysis and empirical evidence to frame business opportunities or challenges for leadership, the team, and cross-functional partners
- Manage the team’s app release rotations to ensure seamless delivery
- Monitor feedback from our iOS and Android applications and prioritize bug fixes
Our take
Shopping online for clothes is not always a fun experience. Finding clothes you like is only half the battle. Sizing guides and return policies seem to have been designed to be challenging to understand, and can also vary wildly from company to company.
Stitchfix sets out to change this by making online clothes shopping personalized and hassle-free. Customers take a survey on their personal tastes, and pay a one-off fee for a stylist, to receive a box of 5 personalized items. Then, they simply pay for any items they keep, or return what they don't want free of charge. The stylists fee is deducted from the first purchase and if they keep all 5 items, they receive a discount.
Stitchfix's unique blend of technology, and human touch in styling, allows the company to deliver its personalized experience at scale, with its growing data sets putting them in a great place to predict consumer trends and preferences. Unfortunately, the company has been hit hard by the current economic climate - cutting staff back in June 2022 as well as again in early 2023. Only time will tell if this once exciting brand will be able to bounce back from this bump in the road and find success again in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2014
$30m
SERIES C
Oct 2013
$12m
SERIES B
Total funding: $47.6m
Company benefits
- Leadership, managing people program, career journey & other training opportunities
- Company equity for eligible roles
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited vacation for qualified roles
- Competitive parental leave
- Enjoy 40% off of Fixes plus access to quarterly sample sales
- Collaborative workspaces - Open floor plan with standing desks & living room seating throughout
Company values
- Integrity
- Be an owner
- Raise the flag
- Keep equity at the center
- Innovation
- Put the client first
- Boldly create the future
- Solve at high speed
- Trust
- Win as a team
- Debate & commit
- Celebrate Stitch Fix grit
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Katrina Lake
(CEO)BA in Economics from Stanford. MBA from Harvard Business School. Previously 2 years as an Associate at The Parthenon Group and 2 years as an Associate at Leader Ventures.
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