Engineering Manager - Inventory Positioning - Hybrid - Seattle

Nordstrom Nordstrom · Retail · Seattle, WA

Engineering Manager for Inventory Positioning at Nordstrom, leading a team to use AI for optimizing inventory placement across a complex network of stores and distribution centers. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, enabling production deployment of ML models, and ensuring operational excellence.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and manage a team responsible for a complex platform for inventory positioning.
  2. Work with stakeholders to define and track KPIs, roadmaps, and priorities, aligning with business objectives.
  3. Work side by side with data scientists to enable the production deployment and optimization of ML models
  4. Drive cross-team collaboration to align technical strategy, manage dependencies, and ensure shared prioritization of deliverables.
  5. Recruit, develop, and retain top talent, building motivated teams that deliver high-quality solutions efficiently.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of relevant work experience in software engineering
  • 2+ years of experience managing teams.
  • Proven track record of shipping well-designed, scalable systems for digital data, tested for performance and reliability.
  • Experience with building cloud first distributed applications
  • Strong understanding of dev-ops best practices, including CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and production support.
  • Experience with agile methodologies such as SCRUM or Kanban.
  • BA/BS in Computer Science or a closely related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

  • Exposure to Supply Chain or Retail.
  • Experience with big data tools such as Spark and Airflow.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI
  • ML models

Other signals

  • AI models
  • inventory positioning
  • ML models