H&M Group is on a journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today and tomorrow. Through collaboration, innovation, and technology we challenge ourselves and the industry. To cater to the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers,  
our tech organisation delivers solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.      

We are accelerating digitalisation and to stay relevant, we need to ensure we have strong leaders in place to bring our best capabilities, innovation ideas and talented technologists to support the transformation of H&M Group. 

This is a full-time position with placement in Stockholm, Sweden.

Candidates with EU work permits ONLY!

Job Description 

As an Engineering Manager / Technical Product Manager at H&M Group, you will be responsible for our API Developer Portal team while partnering with teams and areas to support our Unit in driving the integration Platforms & Services mission and roadmap. You'll get to hire your own team of developers, build your ways of best working and be the front runner for an exciting new Developer Experience. You have also kept your coding skills sharp and bring an unwavering passion for managing the dynamics of a fast-paced environment. You are responsible for optimizing the API Developer Portal for best-in-class developer experience of discovering, publishing and consuming APIs within H&M Group. You will work closely with related teams and relevant stakeholders to clearly understand the requirements and needs to support our engineers in their development of business solutions using our APIs.

If building and leading your own team while developing delightful user experiences excites you, then this opportunity is for you!  

 
Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Strategize, drive, prioritize and maintain the product backlog.
• Clearly and effectively communicate with other teams and relevant stakeholders.
• Mentor, lead and provide technical guidance to a team of software engineers in the design & development of H&M API Developer Portal
• Effectively scale the team by attracting and mentoring extraordinary people at various levels of experience to grow a well-balanced, high performing team
• A chance to set the best technical standards for how we enhance the engineering and user experience while building a team to do so. We truly believe in empowering our teams
• Own the full lifecycle for your team’s development, from ideation to production to develop fully scalable, reliable, resilient features end-to-end.
• Collaborate with other, enterprise-wide distributed product teams to deliver/consume new capabilities.
• Develop strong relationships and work cross-functionally with many teams across organizations and functions, and as a result, increase the impact of the team’s work.
• Optimize the portal for site speed and scalability. 

Qualifications 

• 5+ years of software engineering work experience, including hands-on technical management building holistic web-based software solution, API design, and interactions between servers and clients
• Minimum of 5+ years of product management with demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
• Problem solving skills, and 3+ years’ experience full stack coding
  • front end – HTML / CSS / JavaScript / React
  • back end – JavaScript / NodeJS / Cosmos, Redis, Mongo, MySQL DB / Express, Apache web servers   
• Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management
• Experienced Architect and/or Technical Lead for wed-based solutions setting /following technical best practices
• Experience with microservice architecture is a strong plus
• Experience in building CICD technologies: GitHub, Azure, Yaml
• Experience with Graphic design applications, Mobile & web development
• Experience working in an Agile development environment driven by OKR methodologies 
• Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills  

Working with tech at H&M Group   
The fashion and retail industries are going through a transformation, driven by customers' technology and sustainability expectations.  
At H&M Group, we want to shape the future of fashion and lifestyle by harnessing the power of smart tech and data. With our 74-year history of innovation, we understand the need to collaborate and co-create with engineers and tech specialists around the world to achieve our vision. 

   
What  we offer       
You are joining a unique value-driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, learning communities, wellness and parental benefits, there are a lot of opportunities to experiment and grow in the direction you want. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.  

H&M Group is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability or age. 
Learn more about our I&D work https://youtu.be/veRbl9Cijts   

Additional information   
This is a full-time position based in Stockholm. Please apply as soon as possible but no later than 14th of August.  
We will review and interview applicants on-going. If you have questions, please contact Talent Acquisition Partner Martin Madsen at martin.madsen@hm.com.