Job title: Technical Program Manager

Company: Lululemon India Tech Hub

Job description: About Lululemon India Tech Hub

The Hub is key to our business strategy. Weve grown quickly since our inception in 1998, and our continued global growth through market expansion is one of our five goals. We believe that this strategic investment in the India Tech Hub will support our growth, elevate the athletic apparel shopping experience and increase the global talent pool for our current and future technology needs. The India Tech Hub will help us work smarter and faster across our business’s value chain by unlocking the power of data and technology. In this centre, development work will focus on AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. Through the Hub, we will expand our capabilities in Product Systems, Merchandising and Planning, Digital Presence, Distribution and Logistics, and Corporate Systems. The team in India will work as an extension of the global Technology team on projects of strategic priorities.

Job Description

Who we are?

lululemon is a yoga-inspired technical apparel company up to big things. The practice and philosophy of yoga informs our overall purpose to elevate the world through the power of practice. We are proud to be a growing global company with locations all around the world, from Vancouver to Shanghai, and places in between. We owe our success to our innovative product, our emphasis on our stores, our commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we get to make in every community we are in.

About this team

This role is in Retail Services team in the lululemon technology organization. This team is responsible for creating apis and backend integration following microservices architecture on AWS cloud infrastructure stack. We are looking for an IT Technical Program Manager who can work closely with business stakeholders and technology teams to create delivery plans against product roadmap, manage projects, good at facilitation and knows how to get the right people involved at any given time to solve problems, thereby providing rich experiences to life for our guests. Projects will have both business and technology focus with emphasis on leading from front on automation and CI/CD initiatives with DevOps mindset.

Our team is fast-paced and taking on exciting new initiatives to support a fast-growing business. We strive to adopt leading-edge technology and seek to improve on the solutions continuously. We are not afraid to try new things, have fun, and encourage each other to take on new challenges. We support each other in growing professionally and personally. We fail forward and learn from our mistakes, thus creating a better path ahead. We create space for team members to share feedback and ideas that can help us continually grow as an organization.

We operate following agile framework and leverage multiple product teams across our various functions. We encourage our teams to norm and figure out the best way to deliver critical business initiatives. We institute a culture of fun and lightheartedness to enjoy work each day. We are inclusive and know that we are stronger as a team than as an individual.

Experience and Skillset:

• Have held ownership for the overall development life cycle of the feature/application and manage complex projects with significant bottom line impact.
• Have expertise in working with Product managers and architects in developing a strategy and road map to add compelling capabilities to the product/application.
• Experience working closely with Engineering team, architects to facilitate the best technical design and approach for application/feature development.
• Have expertise in Project management activities – prioritization, planning of projects and features, Stakeholder management, tracking & reporting on status, resolve blocking issues
• Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the teams ability to meet strategic technical goals.
• Excellent communication skills, able to flex style and work with all levels within the organization from individual contributors to Executives
• Ability to manage in both Agile and Waterfall environments.
• Ensures smooth implementation of new technologies and vendor integrations by using their expertise on their assigned domains and interfaces
• Collaborates with operations support and other teams to ensure robust production operations

Qualifications:

• 10+ Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
• 3+ years of technical program management experience
• 3+ years of experience as TPM managing projects java based full stack projects, microservices development and hosted in cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Solid software development background including java technologies, cloud platform (AWS) and Agile process.
• Software development experience in building web services and highly scalable applications
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in recruiting, hiring process, and growing the team.
• PMP and or Scrum certification considered an asset.
• Experience in Retail Systems, development, and delivery (highly valued)
• Experience creating and executing implementation strategies for complex systems
• Ability to validate estimates of effort and impacts for a variety of solutions and influence technical discussions and decisions
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to track and prioritize numerous tasks and to coordinate activities with a high sense of urgency
• Excellent presentation, verbal, written, interpersonal and listening skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills including collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation
• Strong collaboration skills to achieve business goals collectively across broad teams
• Challenges the status quo, champions change and influences others to change

Must-haves:

• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results
• Communicates with honesty and kindness and creates the space for others to do the same
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesnt take themselves too seriously

Expected salary:

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka

Job date: Fri, 20 May 2022 07:45:25 GMT

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