Director, Product Engineering

at W.W. Grainger, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Work Location Type:Hybrid

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we're dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified company, we're looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

Position Details:
The Director of Engineering in Search is an engineering leader for people, process, and delivery management. You have a search background and can guide creation and priority of features and capabilities through leadership, execution, facilitating communication, and understanding the boundaries of their specific domain applying their technical mindset. You will report to the Sr. director of Product Engineering. This is a remote position.You Will:
You will manage a team of Senior Engineering Managers and Engineering Managers.
You will provide direction for Search with a focus on the engineering aspects such as technical dependencies on product and category services, interactions with data science teams and services that provide user search intention and suggestions, architectural agreement for modernized search, and maturing the Agile processes driving the Search teams.
Domain responsibilities:
Feature prioritization and delivery: You will lead multiple Search development teams that build search capabilities for Grainger.com and company partners using search.
Modern Engineering and Cloud Technologies: Promote and embed skills that allow the use of the cloud, containers, serverless, and the use of test automation.
Product and Architecture Agreement: The Director will ensure that there are regular agreement/backlog refinement sessions for the work coming into the domain. These meetings will provide ongoing structure to maintain connection between Engineering, Architecture, Data Science and Product.
Domain Delivery: The Director will remain aware of timelines, commitments, and forecasts of large deliverables. Working with the Product group and their engineering managers, they will try to correct any people issues with the delivery of work and make sure that the teams within their domain have the support, skills, and tools required to deliver high-quality software.
Software Development Process Improvement: It is the charge of the Director to ensure that their Engineering Managers are agents to nurture a culture of continuous improvement for engineers, teams, and even the managers themselves. You will also work with the Director of Engineering Effectiveness and Technical SMEs to create upskilling programs when needed.
Facilitate agreement: It is important that the teams, tech leads, product management, data science team and architects always stay in agreement.
Search health: The Director will monitor the health of not just a single team, but the entire domain. Using metrics to watch trends and reveal antipatterns, the Director will support Engineering Managers when the need arises for Performance Management, but the Director should mostly be concerned with how the health of the Search system is performing, as a team.
Domain modeling: If the need arises to evaluate the boundaries that exist within the domain, the Director is participant in the conversation. Help Grainger make the best possible choices with any such moves.
Team responsibilities:
Personnel Management: The Director directly manages a group of Engineering Managers and is indirectly responsible for all the engineering teams under those managers. Issue of team personnel could require their attention or their direct intervention.
Built-in Quality: The Director will monitor quality metrics (Ex. Escaped Defects, Mean Time to Resolution) to ensure that the Engineering Managers are encouraging a culture that places heavy emphasis on building quality into the software that is written. Using methods like Test-driven Development, the Director should help to create a system for teams to deliver their best work.
Lifecycle Management: The Director will oversee the health and efficiency of the SDLC for their domain. You should work with all departments, teams, and individuals to ensure the methods of software... For full info follow application link.

Grainger is an Equal Opportunity Workplace and an Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.