Manager, Engineering - Creative Systems

Fabletics; United States; 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

401(k)

Annual Bonus Program

Equity Program

Job summary

Fabletics seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the Creative Systems team, guiding DAM, CMS, and creative automation platforms across web, app, retail, and marketing channels.

You will balance people leadership with hands‑on technical involvement, drive delivery rhythm, and partner with Product and Creative leadership on multi‑year platform direction and AI-enabled content workflows. This role reports to the VP of Engineering.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of software engineering experience and 3+ years as an engineering manager or team lead.
• Bachelor’s in CS, Engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience leading platform, integration, or content/CMS teams with DAM, CMS, or marketing automation tools.
• Strong technical foundation across C#/.NET, Node.js, Python, React, REST APIs, and AWS.
• AI-forward mindset with hands-on use of AI tools in development and testing.
• Excellent communicator; comfortable with senior stakeholders and occasional off-hours for launches.

Responsibilities

• Own growth, performance, hiring, and engagement for the squad; conduct 1:1s and coaching.
• Own delivery, sprint health, technical direction, and operating cadence across the squad.
• Lead release management and change communication across systems with multiple dependencies.
• Stay close to the code; participate in design discussions, PR reviews, and debugging.
• Serve as unblocker for integrations, builds, or launch-day issues and set technical bar.
• Collaborate with DevOps and QA Automation on CI/CD, test coverage, and observability.
• Drive AI-forward engineering adoption across planning, code review, testing, and automation of creative workflows.
• Ensure clean, well-documented integrations between DAM, CMS, and production workflows with partner surfaces.

Skills

People leadership

Delivery management

AI adoption

Cross-functional collaboration

System architecture

Hands-on coding

Education

Bachelor's in CS or Engineering

Tools

C#/.NET

Node.js

Python

React

REST APIs

AWS

Adobe

Figma

Contentful/Contentstack

Contentful

Bynder

Cloudinary

SFMC

Braze

Job description

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.

How do you fit in?

This is first and foremost a people leadership role — career development, performance, and day-to-day support of your engineers and QA partners — combined with ownership of the squad’s delivery rhythm (standups, ceremonies, planning, stakeholder alignment, and on-time, high-quality delivery). You’re also a hands‑on manager: management comes first, but you stay close to the work — code reviews, pairing on tough problems, prototyping integrations, and stepping in when a flaky pipeline, tricky content modeling decision, or launch‑day fire shows up.

Your first six months focus on relationships, learning the systems landscape, and owning delivery on the in‑flight roadmap. From there, you’ll partner with Product and Creative leadership on the multi‑year platform direction — unifying creative and commerce systems and embedding AI into how content is produced, managed, and personalized across DAM, CMS, and creative automation. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you’ll sit on the Fabletics Technology leadership team.

Creative Systems supports time‑sensitive launches, so this role requires a manager who’s accessible for the occasional launch-window escalation outside standard business hours — not nightly, but real. We take AI seriously, and this role is a big part of why: if you’re excited about how AI is reshaping creative production and the engineering behind it, this is the role for you.

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. This is where you’ll have the most impact.

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 maintain a roadmap that balances new capability delivery (creative and production workflows, DAM, creative automation and distribution) with platform health and integration investment.
• Own release management and change communication across systems with many upstream and downstream dependencies (creative tools, marketing platforms, ecommerce, retail, data).

Hands‑On Technical Contribution

• Stay close to the code: participate in design discussions, PR reviews, and debugging on the team’s most complex or highest‑risk work — and pick up tickets yourself when that’s what the team needs.
• Be the unblocker when integrations break, builds fail, or a launch is in jeopardy. Set the technical bar by example.
• Partner with DevOps and QA Automation on CI/CD, test coverage, and observability so what the team ships is reliable and built to last — especially during high‑volume creative moments and campaign launches.

AI‑Driven Team Enablement

• Set the standard for what AI‑forward engineering looks like on this team. Drive adoption of AI tools across planning, code review, testing, and documentation, and through automation of creative workflows (AI‑assisted asset tagging, content generation, integration testing).

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 (web, app, retail, email, paid, B2B partners) — including the Product master‑data connections that put style and season metadata cleanly into the DAM.
• Guide architectural decisions across a stack that includes Java‑based content and media platforms (DAM, video MAM), C#/.NET, Node.js, Python for AI/ML and automation, and React. Expect heavy emphasis on third‑party integrations, event‑driven webhook orchestration, file‑based pipelines (SFTP and high‑speed transfer), REST APIs, and AWS.

What You Can Bring

• 3–7 years of software engineering experience and 3+ years as an EM 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. Management is the primary lens through which you evaluate success.
• Experience leading platform, integration, or content/CMS teams; integration experience with DAM, CMS, marketing automation, or creative production tools (Adobe, Figma, Contentful/Contentstack, Bynder, Cloudinary, SFMC, Braze) is a plus.
• Strong technical foundation across C#/.NET, Node.js, and Python back‑end services, React, and REST API design — and comfortable staying hands‑on alongside management work (code review, design, debugging, picking up tickets when needed).
• AI‑forward mindset — daily user of AI‑assisted development tools and hands‑on with generative AI, with concrete views on how AI reshapes how teams plan, build, test, and ship — and how it’s reshaping creative production itself.
• 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 (AEM, MAM) is a plus.

Where We Are

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

Compensation & Total Rewards

At Fabletics we continue to build a culture of flexibility, to empower you to do your best and put yourself first. Our Total Rewards program rewards employees for their hard work, supporting their health, well‑being, families, and ultimately their life journey.

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

The annual base salary range for this position is from $150,000-$175,000. The range provided includes the base salary that Fabletics expects to pay for the role. Offered base salary will be dependent on factors including the scope and complexity of the role, candidate’s related work experience, subject matter expertise and work location.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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 champion a vibrant workplace culture that thrives on diversity and inclusivity. Fabletics encourages you to apply regardless of meeting all qualifications and/or requirements.