Sr Manager, Software Engineering

Gap; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive PTO

Merchandise discount

Health coverage

Wellness program

Parenthood benefits

Retirement planning

Job summary

Gap Inc. in Seattle seeks a seasoned engineering leader to guide large global teams, drive scalable architectures, and deliver high‑performing technology solutions in an Agile environment.

You will mentor engineering managers and engineers, shape product delivery, and champion automation, CI/CD, and strong engineering practices across the organization. Collaborate across functions and communicate strategy to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead large global engineering organizations and empower leaders to run independent high‑performing teams.
• Provide mentorship, oversight and technical direction across product delivery, technology choices and critical production issue resolution.
• Drive DevOps practices, automation, CI/CD and modern software engineering to simplify and improve business processes.

Job description

About the Role

In this role, you will lead large global engineering organizations, empower leaders to run independent high‑performing teams to design highly scalable and high‑performing technology solutions in an Agile work environment. You will provide leadership, mentorship and oversight to a high‑performance team of engineering managers and engineers across product delivery, technology decisions, and best practices in resolving critical production issues to simplify and improve business processes through the latest in technology and automation. You are a technical expert and lead through the requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, and support phases of a product.

What You'll Do

• Establishes, leads and influences the vision of the product by contributing to software design and architecture that results in high performing technology.
• Develop and enhance software providing strategy and direction to solve complex business problems by keeping customer experience at the forefront.
• Lead and model a DevOps mindset by applying automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery in everything we do.
• Foster innovation by applying best practices and learning from emerging technologies and through working collaboratively within a matrix.
• Provide engineering leadership and collaborates and influences within a matrix environment influencing at senior levels.
• Thought leader contributing to the development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people in projects and assignments of diverse scope.
• Lead and facilitate teams creating highly collaborative environment.

Who You Are

• In‑depth understanding and application of leading teams including establishing organizational goals aligned with product vision to achieve business success.
• Demonstrated deep understanding of modern software development, emerging trends and industry and competitor intelligence.
• Superior communication skills with proven ability to guide senior levels and cross‑functional teams both internal and external.
• Facilitate delivery partnership through right level of planning, coordination, alignment, and leadership visibility occurs to ensure on time, on budget delivery of initiatives.
• Strategic thought leader and problem solver able to lead through others developing creative solutions.

Benefits at Gap Inc.

• One of the most competitive paid time off plans in the industry
• Merchandise discount for our brand products at franchise stores and their websites
• Comprehensive health coverage for employees, same‑sex partners and their families
• Health and wellness program: free annual health check‑ups, fitness center and Employee Assistance Program
• Comprehensive benefits to support the journey of parenthood
• Retirement planning assistance

Gap Inc. is an equal‑opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. We have received numerous awards for our long‑held commitment to equality and will continue to foster a diverse and inclusive environment of belonging. In 2022, we were recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers and one of the Best Employers for Diversity.