Founded in 2000, FAM Brands designs, manufactures, and sells men’s and women’s sportswear and active wear apparel to major retailers, big box stores, and specialty boutiques across the country and throughout the world. Our portfolio of proprietary brands features Marika, Wildfox, Three Dots, and Balance Collection, while a partial list of licensing partners includes Orvis, Jessica Simpson, Eddie Bauer, and Woolrich.
With the capacity to produce over 75 million units per year, our mission continues to be making top-quality apparel accessible to everyone at an impressive value and an irresistible price.
That's the FAM Brands difference.
This role serves as the primary technical counterpart to the Director of AI & Emerging Technologies. It is designed to deepen technical execution capability while allowing leadership to expand into enterprise strategy, organizational AI adoption, portfolio governance, roadmap ownership, executive alignment, and business transformation.
This is a management-track position. Depending on the capability and leadership potential of the candidate, this role may be filled at a manager level from the outset, with a clear succession path toward a senior technology leadership role as the team scales.
Anthropic & Claude: Required Platform Experience
• Hands-on experience with Anthropic's Claude platform is required for this role.
• This individual is expected to be a practitioner, educator, and internal advocate for Claude and AI-native thinking at FAM Brands.
• Every member of the DWI team contributes to FAM's culture of AI innovation and serves as an active resource for AI enablement and education across the organization.
Business Engagement Expectation
The Architect is not purely an internal systems builder. This individual is expected to actively engage with the business: identifying new AI use cases and opportunities across the enterprise, partnering with functional stakeholders to uncover where agentic systems, orchestration, or AI-enabled workflows can drive measurable value, and contributing directly to the AI opportunity roadmap.
This role is one of two foundational pillars of FAM's emerging modern infrastructure and technology leadership team. As the practice scales, this individual is expected to grow into a senior technology leadership position.
Core MissionBuild, architect, and operationalize scalable AI systems and integrations across enterprise platforms while actively identifying new opportunities to apply AI across the business, educating internal stakeholders on AI capability, and maturing the technical engineering capability of the DWI team.
Key Focus Areas- AI orchestration systems and agentic AI workflows
- MCP-based architectures and enterprise integrations
- LLM application development using Anthropic Claude and complementary platforms
- Context-aware AI execution and human-in-the-loop systems
- AI workflow governance and cross-platform integrations
- Business-facing AI opportunity identification and roadmap contribution
- Internal AI education, advocacy, and knowledge sharing
- Mentoring and technical leadership development within the team
Area
Requirements
Languages
Python, TypeScript, React
Data / APIs
PostgreSQL, REST, webhooks, API architecture
Cloud
Cloud-native architecture, Azure preferred
AI Platforms
Anthropic Claude (required), OpenAI, Gemini ecosystems
AI Techniques
RAG / GraphRAG, AI workflow orchestration, agentic systems
Enterprise Systems
ERP, HRIS, PLM, supply chain, workflow automation
Leadership & Education Expectations
- Mentor junior developers and analysts; establish engineering best practices
- Operate as a player-coach with clear management track potential
- Partner with business stakeholders to identify and develop new AI opportunities
- Serve as an internal educator and advocate for Claude and AI-native thinking
- Contribute to roadmap development and AI strategy alongside the Director
- Help build the infrastructure and technology leadership foundation for the practice
COMPENSATION
At FAM Brands, we are committed to fair and transparent compensation. Salary ranges for positions are based on job level, location, and market data. We offer competitive benefits and are dedicated to equal pay for equal work. Specific salary offers depend on each candidate’s qualifications and experience. FAM Brands also offers all employees participation in our annual bonus program (Non-Sales) or commission program (Sales).
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Disclosure: Your personal information may be shared with service providers assisting with recruitment and as required by law.
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For questions or to exercise your rights, contact [email protected].
By applying, you acknowledge you understand our privacy practices.
Skills Required
- Hands-on experience with Anthropic's Claude platform
- Experience with Python, TypeScript, and React
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL, REST, webhooks, and API architecture
- Experience with Cloud-native architecture, preferably Azure
What We Do
Three Decades of Leadership In The Fashion Industry Founded in 1985 by Frank Zarabi, FAM Brands provides innovative fashion, design, brand development, and distribution solutions to a wide range of retail and wholesale clients and partners. Our unique performance materials and versatile apparel designs-along with our competitive pricing strategies-have enabled us to become leaders in apparel industry. Our ability to thrive, centers around impeccable design and excellent branding. Our designers and production teams collaborate closely with our factories to create exception fashion strategies and details. Our world-class brands include Marika, Balance Collection, Bally Total Fitness, Tehama, Peace and Pearls, Eddie Bauer, Orvis, Woolrich, and more. We are the trailblazers for activewear. Champions of fitness. We're for simple, elegant and vibrant designs. Our employees are star-reachers, bridge-builders, leaders and teammates. We are family-owned and operated. We are FAM Brands. We are growing and focused on strategic initiatives. Our factories are safe and our employees are valued. We are worldwide, world-class, forward-thinking and forward-looking. We work hard and believe in the work we do. We're for executional excellence and achieving our dreams. We are FAM Brands.
