Engineering Manager
Company Overview
From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, market, sell and replenish products.
- Centric PLM™, the leading PLM solution for fashion, outdoor, footwear and private label, optimizes product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacture, realizing up to 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.
- Centric Planning™ is an innovative, cloud-native, AI solution delivering end-to-end planning capabilities to maximize retail and wholesale business performance, including SKU optimization, resulting in an up to 110% increase in margins.
- Centric Pricing & Inventory™ leverages AI to drive margins and boost revenues by up to 18% via price and inventory optimization from pre-season to in-season to season completion.
- Centric Market Intelligence™ is an AI-driven platform delivering insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to boost competitivity and get closer to the consumer, with an up to 12% increase in average initial price point.
- Centric Visual Boards™ pivot actionable data in a visual-first orientation to ensure robust, consumer-right assortments and product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.
- Centric PXM™, AI-powered product experience management (PXM) encompasses PIM, DAM, content syndication and digital shelf analytics (DSA) to optimize the product commercialization lifecycle resulting in a transformed brand experience. Increase sales channels, boost sell through and drive margins.
Job Summary
Join our team and help us revolutionize the fashion and lifestyle industry by empowering retailers andbrands to optimize their prices and inventory across channels. We are looking for an experiencedengineering manager to lead one of our cross-functional engineering teams in delivering high-quality,impactful products. In this role, you will oversee technical execution, manage the product developmentlifecycle, and ensure the team delivers value on time and in high quality. You will work closely with productmanagers to support the discovery process and provide technical guidance throughout the productlifecycle. Your team will include experts in software engineering, data engineering, data science, andquality assurance.
Key Responsibilities
- Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and support a diverse team of engineers, fostering their technical growth and career development. Provide regular feedback, encouragecollaboration, and inspire the team to achieve high performance and excellence.
- Technical Leadership & Decision-Making: Establish and guide the technical direction of your team, empowering them to make key architectural decisions aligned with the company'sbroader goals. Foster a culture of continuous improvement by driving best practices indevelopment, testing, and release management.
- Delivery Process Ownership: Take full ownership of delivering projects with efficiency and quality, managing the entire software development lifecycle. Optimize workflows, streamlineprocesses, and ensure timely delivery of high-impact features.
- Risk Management & Problem Solving: Proactively identify potential risks, both technical and operational, and create strategies to mitigate them. Actively solve complex problems andunblock the team when necessary, ensuring that the team's focus remains on high-impact work.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Experience: At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, with 2+ years in a leadership or engineering management role, ideally within a cross-functional team environment.Experience working with data scientists and data engineers is a strong plus.
- Technical Expertise: Strong proficiency in software development, with experience across multiple programming languages. Experience with SaaS products and a strong understanding ofdata-driven applications is a plus.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a diverse team of engineers, helping them achieve both technical excellence and career growth. Experience in leading teams in managingchange and supporting their continuous improvement.
- Collaboration & Communication: Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships across teams and engage with stakeholders effectively. Clear communicator,capable of articulating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Decision-Making & Problem-Solving: Strong ability to make informed technical decisions, balancing business goals with technical constraints. Excellent problem-solving skills with a data-driven, analytical approach to resolving challenges.
- Bias for Action & Continuous Improvement: A proactive, action-oriented mindset with a focus on driving results and continuous improvement within the team and the organization.
Salary & Benefits
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as the opportunity to work on challengingprojects that will help you grow your technical skills. Our remote work environment is built oncollaboration, flexibility, and respect, and we are committed to providing ongoing training andprofessional development opportunities for our team members.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.
