Engineering Manager, Marketing Technology – Hybrid (Portland)

Columbia Brands USA; Portland (OR); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Columbia Sportswear is seeking an Engineering Manager, Marketing Technology to lead a team delivering platforms and capabilities powering customer engagement across our global brands. Based in Portland, Oregon, this role sits at the intersection of marketing and technology, pairing CRM, personalization, and analytics with scalable, secure software delivery.

You will mentor engineers, shape roadmaps, and partner with Marketing, Analytics, Digital Commerce, and Architecture to drive business

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading software delivery teams in a complex technology environment.
• Experience supporting Marketing Technology, CRM, customer engagement, consumer data, personalization, loyalty, or marketing automation initiatives.
• Experience partnering with business stakeholders to deliver technology solutions that support consumer acquisition, engagement, retention, or lifecycle marketing strategies.
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices, APIs, integrations, cloud technologies, and enterprise application architectures.
• Experience facilitating delivery across multiple technical disciplines and balancing competing stakeholder priorities.
• Proven experience developing engineers and other technology professionals while building high-performing teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combinati

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a cross-functional team of engineers, product owners, QA professionals, and software analysts.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Partner with Marketing, CRM, Analytics, Digital Commerce, Architecture, and Product teams to align technology investments with business priorities.
• Drive delivery of solutions supporting customer engagement, marketing automation, consumer data, personalization, segmentation, and digital communications.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions that help teams navigate technical dependencies, business priorities, and implementation tradeoffs.
• Partner with technical leads and architects to ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Support the evolution of Columbia's Marketing Technology capabilities, including customer data platforms, CRM technologies, marketing automation, and consumer engagement platforms.
• Collaborate with vendors and technology partners to successfully implement and maintain critical business capabilities.
• Use data, metrics, and operational insights to continuously improve team effectiveness and delivery outcomes.
• Help strengthen the connection between business stakeholders and technology teams by translating ideas into executable solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Systems thinking

Communication

Influence

Ambiguity management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IS

Tools

CRM platforms

Marketing automation tools

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Columbia Sportswear is seeking an Engineering Manager, Marketing Technology to lead a team delivering platforms and capabilities powering customer engagement across our global brands. Based in Portland, Oregon, this role sits at the intersection of marketing and technology, pairing CRM, personalization, and analytics with scalable, secure software delivery.

You will mentor engineers, shape roadmaps, and partner with Marketing, Analytics, Digital Commerce, and Architecture to drive business