THE BUSINESS
We are Everyday Luxury™.
It's what we do and how we do it — together.
It's working alongside world-class talent in pursuit of world-class results.
It's maximizing your potential in a high-performance culture.
It's knowing that wherever you are, you belong.
It's elevating your world — and the world of those who love and will love Aritzia.
It's You. And an endless runway of opportunity.
With a Global Support Campus in Vancouver and additional Support Office hubs in major cities across North America — including Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and Seattle — our workplace network is strategically designed to support our People and serve our Clients a frictionless experience. So, you can do what you do best — with us.
THE TEAM
The mission of the AI Enablement Department is to empower domain teams to deliver AI solutions that unlock business value through strategic guidance and AI infrastructure.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Aritzia is growing, and the AI Enablement team in our Technology division is growing with it. This is a unique opportunity to architect and oversee the foundational infrastructure that powers Aritzia’s AI evolution. As the Principal AI Platform Engineer, you will use your technical expertise and strategic vision to establish the overarching philosophy, principles, and technical guardrails that shape how we design, deploy, and scale AI. You will own our AI platform roadmap — curating a network of world-class partners and building robust development platforms, multi-modal AI pipelines, intelligent autonomous agents, and self-service tools that empower our enterprise to work smarter and faster. With a secure-by-design mindset, you will establish the critical infrastructure and monitoring frameworks required to ensure our AI usage is responsible, ethical, resilient, and continuously aligned with our unique brand voice. You will bridge the gap between emerging AI trends and practical applications, fostering enterprise-wide AI literacy and supporting a culture of continuous learning. With your valuable contribution to the business in this role, the opportunities are endless — from a rewarding career in Technology to continued growth with Aritzia.
THE ROLE
As the Principal AI Platform Engineer, you will:
- Design and own the strategic roadmap for the enterprise AI platform, establishing the core technical architecture that powers Aritzia’s AI capabilities.
- Lead the engineering of critical platforms, including robust development platforms, that empower the organization.
- Build and manage a network of world-class technology vendors and partners, ensuring the AI platform ecosystem is innovative, scalable, and aligned with strategic business goals.
- Perform feasibility studies on emerging AI trends and collaborate with internal/external tech experts to accelerate advanced, practical adoption.
THE QUALIFICATIONS
The Principal AI Platform Engineer has proven skills, education, and/or applicable certifications:
- Enterprise AI Infrastructure & LLMOps / MLOps Architecture: Deep architectural expertise in enterprise cloud AI ecosystems (e.g., Azure AI Studio, AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI) to build and provision scalable developer environments and agentic orchestration frameworks
- Experience with AI guardrails engineering, model observability, and drift detection, and establishing autonomy limits and action authorization controls for agentic systems
- Experience with cognitive search, RAG, multi-modal visual embeddings, and enterprise data architecture
- Experience with vector databases and data orchestration
- Experience with application integration and embedded AI architecture
- Experience with technical vendor evaluation and AI strategy
- A commitment to learn, apply, champion and enrich Aritzia's Values and Business and People Leadership principles
- The skills to collaborate strategically with cross-functional partners in the pursuit of shared business outcomes
- The ability to set clear objectives and design a strategy that inspires the team
- A dedication to quality and investing in results and new business opportunities that add value
THE PERKS
Some of the industry-leading benefits you will receive working at Aritzia:
- Product Discount — Maybe you’ve heard of our famous product discount? Or our exclusive private shopping events? You have now.
- Baby Leave Program — We provide up to 16 weeks of paid time to support you and your growing family.
- A-OK Commissary & Cafe — Everyday Luxury dining, exclusive to Aritzia. Our in-house bistro and cafe is a private oasis where employees can enjoy curated, subsidized Everyday Luxury dining.
- The SET — Our in-office fitness studio and gym with state-of-the-art equipment, custom-created classes and optional personal training. Open 7 days a week, it works out well.
- Aritzia Virtual Wellness — Because your health, happiness and safety matter, we provide 24/7 resources to support you in your wellbeing goals, whether they’re physical, mental, social or financial.
- Aspirational Workplace — Our offices are specially designed to be spaces of creativity, productivity and inspiration. They’re also dog friendly. Woof.
- Amenities — Additional amenities include a private parent’s room, shower facilities with elevated complementary conveniences, bike rooms and more.
- The Extras — We also offer a multitude of other perks like dry-cleaning, hotel and restaurant discounts, self-care promos and on-site medical care.
ARITZIA
Aritzia is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Our goal is to be inclusive, diverse, and representative of the communities where we work while creating an environment where every person can enjoy a successful career. This commitment applies to all candidates and employees regardless of race, ethnicity, citizenship, creed, place of origin, religion, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, disability, age, and any other protected characteristic.
Requests for accommodation due to a disability or any other protected characteristic can be made at any stage of the recruitment process and during employment by contacting our People & Culture Team.
We’re committed to making your experience positive and transparent. Please note, our recruiters will only contact you using an @aritzia.com email address. If you receive recruitment-related messages from other domains, please disregard them.
Skills Required
- Enterprise AI infrastructure architecture experience (Azure AI Studio, AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI)
- LLMOps / MLOps architecture and provisioning scalable developer environments
- Experience designing AI guardrails, model observability, and drift detection
- Experience with cognitive search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Experience with multi-modal visual embeddings and enterprise data architecture
- Experience with vector databases and data orchestration
- Experience with agentic orchestration frameworks and autonomous agent limits/authorization
- Application integration and embedded AI architecture experience
- Technical vendor evaluation and AI strategy experience
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and set clear technical strategy
Aritzia Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Aritzia and has not been reviewed or approved by Aritzia.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus 24/7 virtual wellness access for employees and their families. Recent enhancements around fertility and gender‑affirming care underscore breadth of coverage.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is topped up by the company and extends to all parents through birth, adoption, or surrogacy. Family access to mental‑health specialists further supports dependents.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Perks include a meaningful merchandise discount, designated wellbeing time, and on‑site fitness facilities at select campuses. Feedback suggests these lifestyle offerings add tangible value alongside base pay.
Aritzia Insights
What We Do
Aritzia is a design house with an innovative global platform. We are creators and purveyors of Everyday Luxury, home to an extensive portfolio of exclusive brands for every function and individual aesthetic. We’re about good design, quality materials and timeless style — all with the wellbeing of our People and Planet in mind. Founded in 1984 in Vancouver, Canada, we pride ourselves on creating immersive, highly personalized shopping experiences at aritzia.com and in our 115+ boutiques throughout North America — for everyone, everywhere. OUR APPROACH Aritzia means style, not trend, and quality over everything. We treat each in-house label as its own atelier, united by premium fabrics, meticulous construction and an of-the-moment point of view. We handpick fabrics from the world’s best mills for their feel, function and ability to last. We obsess over proportion, fit and that just-right silhouette. From hand-painted prints to the art of pocket placement, our innovative design studio considers and reconsiders each detail to create essentials you’ll reach for again, and again, and again. If it isn’t just right, it isn’t Aritzia. We’re honored to be recognized by Forbes as one of Canada’s Best Employers (2023). The ranking is based on survey results from 12,000 working Canadians. Everyday Luxury. To Elevate Your World™️
