lululemon

Who we are

lululemon is a yoga-inspired technical apparel company up to big things. The practice and philosophy of yoga informs our overall purpose to elevate the world through the power of practice. We are proud to be a growing global company with locations all around the world, from Vancouver to Shanghai, and places in between. We owe our success to our innovative product, our emphasis on our stores, our commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we get to make in every community we are in.

Job Summary:

The Global Digital Technology organization is seeking a talented team leader that will oversee development team(s) working to delivery lululemon’s mobile experiences. In this role you will be responsible for ensuring the success of your team and will proactively identify the most high-value deliverables and keep your team focused on shipping quality code. By partnering closely with the product and project leads you help manage project scope and ensure stakeholder expectations are managed and met. Your experience building production systems in cloud-native and hybrid environments where “automation” and “Infrastructure as Code” are guiding principles that enable you to guide teams and partners toward best practices that allow progress to be made quickly and sustainably.

You are an independent manager who is comfortable managing team members with different skill sets from your own and you can communicate expectations clearly to all team members. In addition to strong management skills, you act as a leader for the technical roadmap for your team and you communicate timeline, scope and risks to partners and stakeholders, and lead the delivery of major initiatives on clear timelines. You identify areas of strategic technical debt, do the cost/benefit analysis for resolving this debt and communicate suggested timelines for prioritizing this to the management team.

You demonstrate leadership by supporting the growth and development of your team as a whole and individually. Goal-setting is as integral to lululemon as yoga and you facilitate your team’s participation in our Vision & Goals program. This is not about your performance. This is about defining what is authentically important for you and your team and then setting out to make it happen.

Core Accountabilities:

• Lead world-class mobile engineering team to deliver multiple high performing native iOS and Android apps, and services globally.
• Cultivate and establish best practices for mobile applications while conforming to work with the lululemon way so that engineers can streamline delivery and maximize quality with limited impact from cross-functional concerns so that business needs can be delivered on in a concise and confident way.
• Ensure your team produces software that is resilient, monitorable and maintainable
• Adjust process and timeline to ensure that high quality deliverables are produced
• Identify and remove roadblocks to success
• Identify and encourage improvement ideas and advocate and acquire support
• Implement and evangelize continuous delivery with a focus on speed, risks, and fast end user feedback so that business requests can be quickly delivered and measured against KPIs.
• Identify staffing needs and hire in qualified talent to fit the technical needs so that business requirements can be delivered on with a stable and predictable timeline and have fun doing it..

Required Skills, Experience:

• 5+ years experience in senior engineering of iOS or Android development
• 3+ years experience in a people leadership role
• Deep experience with iOS development. Android development is great to have also
• Deep experience with AWS services and pipeline automation
• Comfortable working in complex and large-scale environments
• Prior experience in the retail industry (Nice to have)

Our “must haves”:

• Proven work ethic with utmost integrity
• Desire to excel and succeed
• Actively live and breathe the lululemon culture and lifestyle
• Self-awareness, with a desire for constant self improvement (goal –oriented)
• Entrepreneurial spirit and an egoless nature
• Self motivated, passionate, empathetic, approachable
• Outgoing, energetic, upbeat and fun!

NOTE: Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest. lululemon is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This Equal Employment Opportunity policy applies to all practices relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, transfer, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. While management is primarily responsible for seeing that lululemon equal employment opportunity policies are implemented, you share in the responsibility for assuring that, by your personal actions, the policies are effective.

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