Grainger · 1 day ago
Director, Product Engineering
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$176K/yr - $294K/yr
7+ years expGrainger is a leading broad line distributor serving millions of customers worldwide. They are seeking a Director of Product Engineering to lead their Search organization, focusing on delivering advanced search capabilities across digital platforms and managing engineering teams.
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Responsibilities
Lead multiple cross-functional teams responsible for powering search on Grainger.com and other digital touchpoints
Shape the roadmap in close partnership with Product, Architecture, and Data Science
Ensure Grainger’s search stack — from indexing to ranking to retrieval — is modern, resilient, and delivering measurable business impact
Champion a hybrid retrieval strategy that blends traditional techniques (e.g., Solr) with ML and semantic models
Manage and mentor a group of Engineering Managers and Senior Managers
Build a strong, inclusive, and high-performing culture grounded in psychological safety, continuous learning, and technical excellence
Drive clear goals, accountability, and autonomy across teams
Support hiring, onboarding, career growth, and succession planning
Strengthen agile practices, engineering quality, observability, and operational rigor
Use metrics to assess system health, delivery velocity, and customer outcomes
Partner with peers across the organization to remove blockers, align strategy, and prioritize wisely
Champion DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native best practices (containers, serverless, IaC, etc.)
Ensure strong alignment between engineering, product, data science, and architecture
Facilitate healthy tension, resolve ambiguity, and enable smart tradeoffs
Identify gaps in org design, domain boundaries, or team charters — and advocate for change
Represent the Search organization across engineering leadership and with executive stakeholders
Qualification
Required
7+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers
Proven track record of leading teams that build and scale complex search or information retrieval systems
Deep experience with Agile, CI/CD, cloud platforms (ideally AWS), and modern software engineering practices
Strong product thinking and a bias for impact
Excellent collaboration, communication, and influence skills — especially across disciplines
A passion for people development and team health
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
Preferred
Familiarity with ML-powered search or close partnership with data science teams (bonus: semantic search, vector retrieval, personalization)
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
23 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.
Company
Grainger
As a leading business-to-business organization, more than 4.5 million customers worldwide rely on Grainger for products in categories such as safety, material handling and metalworking, along with services like inventory management and technical support.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
D. G. Macpherson
Chief Executive Officer
Nancy Berardinelli-Krantz
Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
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