[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager @Stitch Fix

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Mobile Experience & Platform team at Stitch Fix. This team of approximately 12 engineers drives native iOS development, maintains our Android application, and builds the shared mobile foundations that enable exceptional client experiences.

This is a unique engineering leadership opportunity that combines people leadership, platform strategy, and shared product leadership. Your role is to create the clarity, alignment, and organizational structure that enables them to do their best work.

• Lead and develop an experienced team:
  • Coach, mentor, and support approximately 12 engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous growth.
• Shape the mobile experience and platform roadmap:
  • Develop a compelling mobile vision and partner with Product and Engineering leadership to prioritize investments that balance native client experiences, platform modernization, and long-term engineering health.
• Lead shared product strategy:
  • In the absence of a dedicated Mobile Product Manager, play a key role in identifying opportunities for mobile-first innovation, leveraging native device capabilities (such as push notifications, widgets, and Live Activities), and using data and client insights to shape investments.
• Orchestrate engineering capacity:
  • Partner with leaders across multiple product teams to understand priorities, anticipate demand, allocate engineers effectively across concurrent initiatives, and communicate delivery commitments and tradeoffs.
• Drive platform and operational excellence:
  • Ensure the reliability, performance, and long-term sustainability of our mobile applications. Oversee native iOS development infrastructure, testing, release management, and platform modernization, while ensuring Android remains stable, secure, and well-maintained.
• Empower technical experts:
  • Create an environment where senior and staff engineers have the autonomy, context, and support to make sound architectural and technical decisions aligned with business goals.
• Build cross-functional alignment:
  • Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, Design, Algorithms, and other partners to align priorities, navigate dependencies, and deliver cohesive client experiences.
• Advance engineering effectiveness through AI:
  • Champion practical AI adoption in engineering workflows to improve developer productivity, software quality, and delivery effectiveness.
• Create operational clarity:
  • Establish lightweight processes for portfolio visibility, capacity planning, and prioritization so engineers and stakeholders understand commitments and dependencies.
• Collaborate as a distributed team:
  • Work effectively across a distributed US team leveraging modern tooling (GitHub, Slack, Zoom) within an organization that treats data as a first-class citizen.

Qualifications

• Proven People Leadership: Significant experience leading and developing software engineers—including senior and staff levels.
• Product-Minded Engineering Leader: Comfortable shaping roadmaps, building business cases, and guiding product direction without a dedicated product manager.
• Data-Informed Decision Maker: Use quantitative data, client insights, and key engineering metrics to identify opportunities and evaluate outcomes.
• Resource and Delivery Orchestrator: Demonstrated success managing engineering capacity, expectations, and delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Empowering and Trust-Oriented: Build trust, delegate effectively, and create high accountability without micromanaging technical decisions.
• Strategic and Technically Sound: Strong technical judgment and ability to partner effectively with senior engineers on architecture, performance, security, and trade-offs.
• Clear Communicator and Influencer: Excel at navigating ambiguity, communicating tradeoffs transparently, and influencing decisions across organizational boundaries.
• Forward-Looking Technologist: Practical experience adopting AI tools and workflows to enhance engineering effectiveness.
• Domain Background: Experience in mobile application development, client-facing engineering, developer platforms, or similarly complex engineering environments.
• Team-Centric Mindset: Care deeply about fostering inclusive, healthy, and high-performing engineering cultures.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, benefits, and equity.
• Eligible for an annual bonus and ongoing grants of restricted stock units.
• Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits.