Grainger
Director, Product Engineering
Grainger, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
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 Pricing is an engineering leader for people, process, and delivery management. You have an engineering 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 hybrid role based in our Chicago Offices.
You Will:
As a newly formed domain, you will manage a team involving an Engineering Manager and be directly involved in managing other teams.
You will provide direction for Pricing with a focus on the engineering aspects such as resiliency, data modeling, architectural alignment, and maturing the Agile processes driving the Pricing teams.
Domain responsibilities:
Feature prioritization and delivery: You will lead multiple Pricing development teams that build promotional capabilities for Grainger.com and tools to support Grainger’s pricing strategy.
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.
Domain Delivery: The Director will remain aware of timelines, commitments, and forecasts of large deliverables.
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.
Facilitate agreement: It is important that the teams, tech leads, product management, data science team and architects always stay in agreement.
Pricing health: The Director will monitor the health of not just a single team, but the entire domain.
Domain modeling: If the need arises to evaluate the boundaries that exist within the domain, the Director is participant in the conversation.
Team responsibilities:
Personnel Management: The Director directly manages a group of Engineering Managers.
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.
Lifecycle Management: The Director will oversee the health and efficiency of the SDLC for their domain.
Technology Champion: The Director will be an advocate for the technology that the teams in their domain create.
You Have:
5+ years of people management experience.
10+ years of demonstrated experience in SDLC using Agile methodologies, continuous delivery, cloud and modern engineering approaches to solve business problems.
Requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems or a related study or equivalent project-related experience.
Rewards and Benefits:
With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger.
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
Paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year.
Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period.
Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations and tuition reimbursement.
A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical and social wellbeing programs.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment. With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.
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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 Pricing is an engineering leader for people, process, and delivery management. You have an engineering 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 hybrid role based in our Chicago Offices.
You Will:
As a newly formed domain, you will manage a team involving an Engineering Manager and be directly involved in managing other teams.
You will provide direction for Pricing with a focus on the engineering aspects such as resiliency, data modeling, architectural alignment, and maturing the Agile processes driving the Pricing teams.
Domain responsibilities:
Feature prioritization and delivery: You will lead multiple Pricing development teams that build promotional capabilities for Grainger.com and tools to support Grainger’s pricing strategy.
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.
Domain Delivery: The Director will remain aware of timelines, commitments, and forecasts of large deliverables.
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.
Facilitate agreement: It is important that the teams, tech leads, product management, data science team and architects always stay in agreement.
Pricing health: The Director will monitor the health of not just a single team, but the entire domain.
Domain modeling: If the need arises to evaluate the boundaries that exist within the domain, the Director is participant in the conversation.
Team responsibilities:
Personnel Management: The Director directly manages a group of Engineering Managers.
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.
Lifecycle Management: The Director will oversee the health and efficiency of the SDLC for their domain.
Technology Champion: The Director will be an advocate for the technology that the teams in their domain create.
You Have:
5+ years of people management experience.
10+ years of demonstrated experience in SDLC using Agile methodologies, continuous delivery, cloud and modern engineering approaches to solve business problems.
Requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems or a related study or equivalent project-related experience.
Rewards and Benefits:
With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger.
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
Paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year.
Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period.
Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations and tuition reimbursement.
A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical and social wellbeing programs.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment. With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.
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