What if your leadership could shape large-scale, business-critical digital products across a global organization? At H&M Tech, the Engineering Manager plays a critical leadership role, accountable for technical execution, delivery quality, and operational excellence.
The Product domain provides capabilities to design, create, source, and produce customer‑relevant assortments. It covers the full product lifecycle from product design, sourcing, purchasing, to production execution, and is organized into four focus areas that each own a distinct part of this lifecycle. The Product team will support the Production Office with technology and data use cases that help colleagues explore opportunities, improve decision-making, automate manual work, and create measurable value in production processes.
We are currently recruiting for 3 Engineering Manager positions within our Product domain. These opportunities span the Product & Purchase and Product Sourcing areas, where you will lead one of our engineering teams supporting Sourcing Partnership Flow, Purchase Flow, or Labels & Tags
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Strategic & Delivery Leadership
- Own end-to-end technical delivery for one or more large-scale and complex products or services.
- In service contexts, own both roadmap and delivery accountability; in product contexts, partner with Product Managers to shape execution.
- Translate business and product goals into clear technical direction, execution plans, and measurable outcomes across technology and data-enabled products.
- Partner with Production Office stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and deliver technology and data use cases that solve real operational needs and improve ways of working.
- Work in close dual leadership with the Product Manager to balance product priorities, technical feasibility, delivery capacity, and long-term scalability.
- Secure and allocate engineering capacity across multiple teams aligned with strategic priorities.
- Establish scalable, secure, and resilient data platforms, pipelines, and data products that support analytics, experimentation, and operational use cases.
- Lead through senior engineers while retaining overall accountability for engineering quality, delivery timelines, consistent standards, and operational excellence.
Operational Excellence
- Shape and enforce engineering quality, simplification, and continuous improvement across teams.
- Define and monitor KPIs to drive operational performance and business outcomes.
- Ensure stable, resilient, compliant, and secure operations, including effective incident handling and adherence to architectural standards.
- Lead proactive management of risks, dependencies, and technical debt.
- Embed responsible technology practices into delivery, including privacy, security, bias awareness, monitoring, and clear operational ownership.
- Oversee vendor and managed service delivery, ensuring performance, compliance, contractual alignment, and cost efficiency.
Financial Accountability
- Own and manage tech costs (budget, forecast, actuals) across large-scale products or services.
- Ensure strong financial discipline and cost efficiency aligned with TCO objectives.
- Contribute to investment planning and prioritization aligned with business goals.
People & Culture
- Lead, coach, mentor, and develop senior engineers, leaders, and teams while setting best practices for engineering excellence.
- Build high-performing, inclusive, and psychologically safe environments in the team.
- Ensure teams have the right competencies, structure, and support to succeed.
- Promote sustainable ways of working and support team well-being.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as a senior technical leader influencing enterprise-level decisions and priorities.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, security, and business stakeholders to align direction.
Ensure transparency with clear communication of progress, risks, and dependencies.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
You will lead an engineering team within one of our Product Tech areas—Product & Purchase or Product Sourcing—supporting one of the strategic product teams: Sourcing Partnership Flow, Purchase Flow, or Labels & Tags. You will lead a Product team consisting of various Engineers and operate at the intersection of engineering, data, product, architecture, and business. The team will work closely with the Production Office to understand concrete use cases, shape scalable data and technology solutions, and turn business needs into reliable products that support production teams in their daily work.
You will work in dual leadership with the Product Manager, where you bring engineering leadership, delivery accountability, technical direction, and operational excellence while the Product Manager drives product vision, prioritization, and value realization. Together, you will align priorities, shape the roadmap, and ensure data and digital capabilities are designed, built, governed, and scaled across the Product in close collaboration with architects, specialists, security, analytics, and senior stakeholders.
WHO YOU ARE
We are looking for an experienced 10+ years engineering leader with a strong track record of delivering complex, large-scale technology solutions. You bring deep technical understanding combined with impactful leadership, enabling teams and leaders to perform at their best.
You thrive in complexity and ambiguity, confidently making trade-offs that balance short-term delivery with long-term scalability, resilience, and quality.
You bring:
- Corporate leadership experience with direct budget responsibility, including planning, forecasting, prioritization, cost management and accountability for budget outcomes.
- Proven people leadership experience, including recruitment, performance management, coaching, feedback and employee development.
- Ownership of delivery outcomes from planning through execution, with accountability for scope, timeline, quality, risks and dependencies.
- Engineering leadership in a corporate custom software development environment using Microsoft technologies, including Azure.
- Strong technical understanding of modern engineering practices, including agile, DevOps, scalable architecture, cloud platforms, and confidence working closely with engineers on technical decisions and delivery.
- Ability to balance business value, technical feasibility, delivery capacity, and long-term scalability while creating clarity across product, engineering, architecture, and business.
- Experience working with vendors and external partners.
WHO WE ARE
H&M is a global company of strong fashion brands and ventures. Our goal is to prove that there is no compromise between exceptional design, affordable prices, and sustainable solutions. We want to liberate fashion for the many, and our customers are at the heart of every decision we make.
We are made up of thousands of passionate and talented colleagues united by our shared culture and values. Together, we want to use our power, our scale, and our knowledge to push the fashion industry towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.
Help us re-imagine fashion and together we will re-shape our industry. Learn more about H&M here.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE
At H&M, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. We offer our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe.
We offer all our employees at H&M attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.
In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment types and countries.
JOIN US
Our uniqueness comes from a combination of many things – our inclusive and collaborative culture, our strong values, and opportunities for growth. But most of all, it’s our people who make us who we are.
Take the next step in your career together with us. The journey starts here.
*We are committed to a recruitment process that is fair, equitable, and based on competency. We therefore kindly ask you to not attach a cover letter in your application.
Skills Required
- 10+ years engineering leadership experience
- Corporate leadership experience with direct budget responsibility (planning, forecasting, cost management)
- Proven people leadership experience including recruitment, performance management, coaching, and development
- Ownership of delivery outcomes from planning through execution, including scope, timeline, quality, risks and dependencies
- Engineering leadership in a corporate custom software development environment using Microsoft technologies, including Azure
- Strong technical understanding of modern engineering practices including Agile, DevOps, scalable architecture, and cloud platforms
- Experience establishing scalable, secure data platforms, pipelines, and data products for analytics and operational use cases
- Experience working with vendors and external partners, managing vendor delivery and contracts
- Ability to lead senior engineers and build high-performing, inclusive teams
- Experience managing tech costs and financial accountability across large-scale products or services
H&M Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about H&M Group and has not been reviewed or approved by H&M Group.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, pharmacy and vision options with low employee costs and free dental are available, alongside telehealth and inclusive offerings such as transgender, bariatric and fertility coverage. These features are highlighted as solid for U.S. retail roles, with some availability for part‑time positions depending on eligibility.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Vacation, flexible wellness days, company‑paid holidays and a paid birthday off are offered, with some paid time off available to part‑time staff. The time‑off structure is presented as generous within the retail context.
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Parental & Family Support — Eight weeks of paid parental pay for mothers and fathers is provided, complemented by adoption assistance and healthy pregnancy/babies programs. These family supports add depth to the core medical coverage in the U.S. package.
H&M Group Insights
What We Do
Founded in 1947, H&M Group is a global design company with ~4,702 stores in 76 markets and 56 online markets. At H&M Group, we believe in making great design available to everyone. It’s essential in everything we do. Our family of brands and business ventures offer customers around the world a wealth of fashion, beauty, accessories and homeware, as well as modern menus with fresh and local produce at some of the brands’ in-store eateries. But design is so much more than just products; it’s about clever design processes, efficient product flows, creating experiences that enrich, and smart solutions that benefit all our customers. Sustainability is always at the core of our business. Not only because we like to do what’s right — but it’s also beneficial for our business. We will continue to push for change and lead the way towards a more inclusive and sustainable fashion future. Do you want to join us? We will trust you with great responsibility right from the start, reward a passionate mindset and encourage an entrepreneurial spirit. When you start a career with H&M Group, there’s no limit to where it can take you. H&M Group's Moderation Policy: Welcome to H&M Group’s official LinkedIn page. Ask questions, exchange ideas and meet members and employees from all over the world. This page is moderated daily and we always do our best to answer each one of you in a timely manner. Please remember to keep a friendly tone and in line with LinkedIn’s legal terms at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement Comments and posts that contain foul language, are off-topic or unnecessarily rude will be deleted. We also encourage you to report any inappropriate content. We use an external tool to handle the comments on our page, so please note that your comments can be stored. For questions, please contact our team at [email protected].
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