Associate Director Engineering - HR Domain

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Best Buy

At Best Buy, we’re not just an engineering team; we’re an engineering community. By embracing change, teams of talented people are allowed to innovate and transform the way we work. We are the Best Buy People Technology Engineering team – an inventive group interested in focusing our skills and opinions on delivering transformative software solutions. We are constantly thinking about the future of great software and great teams, and work with the latest and greatest technologies.

As the Associate Director, Engineering – HR Domain

you will be leading a high-performance engineering team and partnering with various product, UX, business stakeholders and operational teams at Best Buy to deliver innovative solutions that will help deliver great customer experiences at scale. The People Technology HR Engineering Team is responsible for reinventing the Best Buy employee experience in service of our company goal of becoming one of the Best Places to Work. We will do this through the development of a world-class, consumer-grade, digital employee experience that will empower employees to manage their career paths and work life.

This is a key leadership role that will lead to technical excellence and agility with multiple product teams. You will interact with and influence other senior engineering and product leaders and partners throughout the organization. You should be data-driven and must be comfortable with ambiguity and capable of managing multiple initiatives simultaneously and, along with your team, drive them to completion.

The ideal candidate has already succeeded in building and leading teams to deliver digital experiences and customer-facing products with broad adoption in a high growth environment where priorities shift quickly. Key skills and activities for this role include the ability to prioritize and delegate seamlessly, communicate clearly, influence and build partnerships, and participate with teams building new software to teach and support technical excellence in Agile delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

Build high-performance, highly available, and scalable distributed systems.

Build the simplest possible thing that will continually deliver working software to customers.

Manage multiple engineering managers and/or senior managers across multiple product teams to deliver quality products.

Work closely with product managers and UX personnel to understand the product and customer experience requirements and partner to design and prioritize solutions that can meet the expectations.

Lead, coach, and inspire the team, while creating an inclusive team culture that enables all members of different disciplines to thrive.

Provide strategic and day-to-day guidance to the product and engineering team.

Make talent decisions (i.e., selection, development, performance management, and rewards), with significant input from other capability leaders.

Minimum Qualifications:

10 or more years of experience delivering enterprise-level software in a team-based environment.

4 or more years of people management experience

Desired Qualifications:

Strong problem-solving and thought partnership skills

Self-motivated with a focus on driving results and a strong sense of accountability

Ability to set technology direction and oversee successful delivery and/or support of the solution

Experience with the following Workday technologies: Studio, Advanced Reporting, EIB, Business Process HR, and Retail domain knowledge

Company info

Best Buy
Website : http://www.bestbuy.com