Manager, Engineering - Creative Systems

TechStyle Fashion Group; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Schedule

Discretionary Paid Time Off

Summer Fridays

Healthcare Plans

Employee Discounts

401k

Annual Bonus Program

Equity Program

Job summary

Fabletics, based in El Segundo, CA, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Creative Systems team. You will own squad performance, hiring, and day-to-day engineering, while staying hands-on through reviews, design discussions, and debugging when critical.

You will drive delivery cadence, partner with Product, Creative, Brand, and Marketing to align roadmaps with new capabilities, and advance AI-enabled workflows from planning to content generation.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of software engineering experience and 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent required.
• Strong background across modern web stacks and backend services.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Creative Systems squad, guiding delivery and quality.
• Collaborate with Product, Creative, Brand, and Marketing to align roadmaps.
• Stay hands-on with code reviews, design discussions, and debugging when needed.
• Drive AI tooling adoption for planning, testing, and content generation.
• Ensure clean integrations between DAM, CMS, and production workflows.

Skills

People leadership

C#/.NET

Node.js

Python

React

REST API

AWS

AI tools

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tools

DevOps

Job description

Fabletics is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Creative Systems team — the engineers behind how we produce, manage, and publish the creative that powers our brand across web, mobile app, retail, email, and paid media. The team owns three connected platform areas: our Digital Asset Management (DAM) and creative production tooling; our marketing and creative automation platforms (campaign setup, personalization, dynamic creative delivery); and our CMS / content platform. These systems sit at the intersection of Creative, Marketing, Merchandising, and Ecommerce, and they directly influence speed-to-market, content quality, and conversion.

This role primarily focuses on people leadership, delivery, and day‑to‑day engineering support. You’ll own the squad’s performance, hiring, and engagement while ensuring on‑time, high‑quality delivery. A hands‑on manager, you’ll stay close to the code through reviews, design discussions, and debugging when critical.

What you will do

• People Leadership & Development

  Own growth, performance, hiring, and engagement for the squad. Run 1:1s, coach, navigate performance conversations directly and early, and create stretch opportunities that develop engineers.

• Squad Delivery & Operating Rhythm

  Own delivery, sprint health, technical direction, and the operating cadence (standups, planning, retros, roadmap reviews). Keep the squad focused and unblocked. Partner with Product, Creative, Brand, and Marketing leadership to align roadmap with new capability delivery and platform health. Own release management and change communication across systems with many upstream and downstream dependencies.

• Hands‑On Technical Contribution

  Participate in design discussions, PR reviews, and debugging on the team’s most complex or highest‑risk work. Pick up tickets yourself when needed and unblock integrations or build failures. Set the technical bar by example and partner with DevOps and QA Automation on CI/CD, test coverage, and observability.

• AI‑Driven Team Enablement

  Drive adoption of AI tools across planning, code review, testing, and documentation, and automate creative workflows such as AI‑assisted asset tagging and content generation.

• Platform & Integrations

  Hold the team accountable for clean, well‑documented integrations between our creative and production workflows, DAM, creative automation tools, and the surfaces that consume them. Guide architectural decisions across a stack that includes Java‑based platforms, C#/.NET, Node.js, Python for AI/ML, React, event‑driven webhook orchestration, file‑based pipelines, REST APIs, and AWS.

What you can bring

3–7 years of software engineering experience and 3+ years as an Engineering Manager or team lead; Bachelor’s in CS, Engineering, or equivalent.

• Proven people developer who has grown engineers, navigated performance conversations, and built strong team cultures.
• Experience leading platform, integration, or content/CMS teams with integration experience with DAM, CMS, marketing automation, or creative production tools.
• Strong technical foundation across C#/.NET, Node.js, Python back‑end services, React, and REST API design; comfortable staying hands‑on with code review, design, and debugging.
• AI‑forward mindset: daily user of AI‑assisted development tools and hands‑on with generative AI, with concrete views on how AI reshapes planning, building, testing, and shipping.
• Excellent communicator, clear under pressure, and credible with senior creative, marketing, and technology stakeholders.
• Comfortable with occasional off‑hours availability for launch windows and time‑sensitive escalations.
• Familiarity with video processing pipelines (transcoding, codecs, MAM workflows) or Java‑based content platforms is a plus.

Where We Are

This role is remote‑friendly, with headquarters based in El Segundo, CA.

Compensation & Total Rewards

The annual base salary range for this position is from $150,000‑$175,000.

• Hybrid Work Schedule*
• Discretionary Paid Time Off*
• Summer Fridays*
• Healthcare Plans
• Employee Discounts
• 401k
• Annual Bonus Program
• Equity Program*

*Varied for retail, fulfillment and fully remote roles.

Equal Opportunity & Diversity Statement

Fabletics, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, compensate, develop, and promote regardless of race, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We encourage you to apply regardless of meeting all qualifications and requirements.