lululemon · 20 hours ago
Technology Director - Developer Excellence
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$190K/yr - $250K/yr
10+ years explululemon is an innovative performance apparel company focused on creating transformational products and experiences. The Technology Director - Developer Excellence will lead the Technology Practices and strategic platforms, ensuring engineering standards and driving technological excellence across all technology departments.
E-CommerceFashionWellnessLifestyleSportsApparelFitnessSporting Goods
No H1B
Responsibilities
Lead the Technology Practices, providing maturity guidelines and resources that empower teams throughout the enterprise
Strengthen the program that establishes and adopts engineering standards, ensuring scalability and future-proofing to accommodate business growth
Measure and improve engineering velocity, quality, and satisfaction
Build productivity dashboards across engineering teams
Establish industry standard metrics such as DORA and SPACE to capture the technical aspects of software development and the human and social factors that influence team performance
Influence yearly financial investment decisions by shaping and enhancing these practices and standards
Take ownership and operate strategic technical platforms, such as CICD and Observability, with the aim of accelerating organizational maturity and business value
Deliver and maintain core engineering tools, environments, and internal developer platforms (IDPs)
Provide Seamless onboarding for new developers with a goal of being able to checkin code within 1 day
Reduction in build and deploy times by X%
Utilize these platforms to drive secure and reliable technology development, supporting the sustained growth of lululemon commerce
Influence and guide Principal Engineering leadership through technical thought leadership, strategic partnership, investment alignment, and community building
Demonstrate a strong leadership style that inspires, motivates, delegates, and coaches teams to achieve high performance and passion for their products and services
Proactively build trusting relationships across the organization, including functional partners and global teams
Foster a culture of inclusion, diversity, and equity in alignment with the organization’s IDEA commitment
Qualification
Required
10+ years of related work experience, with direct work experience across a variety of Engineering disciplines, including creating and managing community of practices in large technology organizations (1k+ people)
5+ years is a senior leadership position like Technology Director, or relevant management experience
Role model and champion modern ways-of-working such as Agile, DevOps and related practices, actively participate in an architecture community
Strong communication and 'storytelling' skills – ability to articulate a vision or concept in simple terms to a broad audience at every level
Authorization to work in the United States is required for this role
Preferred
Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life
Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results
Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same
Lead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure
Foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships
Integrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn't take yourself too seriously
Benefits
Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
Paid time off
Savings and retirement plan matching
Generous employee discount
Fitness & yoga classes
Parenthood top-up
Extensive catalog of development course offerings
People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)
Company
lululemon
Lululemon is a technical athletic apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other sweaty pursuits.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
STORY3 Capital PartnersAdvent International
2021-06-01Post Ipo Secondary
2014-08-08Post Ipo Equity
2007-07-27IPO
Leadership Team
Meghan Frank
Chief Financial Officer
C
Carla Anderson
Senior Vice President
Recent News
2026-02-10
2026-02-10
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