Engineering Manager, WMS

Stord is a cloud‑based supply chain platform that empowers brands to compete and grow through end‑to‑end logistics solutions. We process over $10B in commerce annually across Order Management (OMS), Warehouse Management (WMS), Transportation Management (TMS), Consumer Experience, and Demand Planning.

• You’ll manage engineering on the system that runs Stord’s live fulfillment operations, where reliability and correctness matter every single day.
• The platform work underway in WMS is directly tied to Stord’s growth trajectory, and you’ll have real influence over how it gets built.
• You’ll own two full engineering teams from day one, with real scope and real technical decisions, not a coordination role sitting on top of someone else’s teams.
• We use Elixir as our preferred stack, giving you the chance to build deep expertise in a language built for exactly this kind of real‑time, high‑throughput system.

• Own the complete people management lifecycle for two engineering teams: hiring, 1:1s, performance management, and career development.
• Set sprint goals and delivery commitments for both teams, and hold them to a consistent, predictable cadence.
• Run team ceremonies (planning, retros, standups) in a way that builds trust and team health, not just tracks tickets.

• Drive your teams’ contribution to ongoing platform enhancement initiatives within WMS.
• Translate business priorities into concrete team goals and technical work breakdown.
• Partner with product and other WMS engineering managers to sequence enhancement work against ongoing platform needs.

• Own the reliability of the systems your teams maintain, as WMS runs live fulfillment operations with no room for silent failure.
• Build a production mindset on your teams: monitoring, failure modes, and operational readiness as part of the design process, not an afterthought.
• Lead your teams through incidents in your area of ownership, from response through root‑cause resolution.

• Partner with peer WMS engineering managers to align priorities, standards, and technical approach across teams.
• Represent your teams in WMS‑wide planning and roadmap discussions.
• Keep your teams’ work coordinated with the rest of the WMS platform so priorities don’t drift out of sync.

• Strong engineering fundamentals. You have a real technical background and can engage credibly in design discussions, code review, and architecture decisions with your teams, not just process and delivery.
• People management fundamentals. You’ve managed engineers directly: hiring, performance reviews, feedback, and career development, not just project coordination.
• Delivery ownership. You can run a scrum team (or two) through predictable, consistent delivery cycles and communicate progress, risk, and blockers clearly to leadership.
• Comfort with ambiguity. You can set clear direction for your teams even when priorities or requirements shift, without needing everything spelled out before you act.
• Production mindset. You think about reliability, monitoring, and failure modes as core parts of how your teams build, especially for systems running live operations.

• Ownership & Accountability:
  You own outcomes, not just activities. When your team ships, you take pride. When something breaks, you take responsibility and fix the system.
• Strong Communication:
  You communicate clearly with engineers, PMs, and executives. You translate technical complexity into business language and vice versa.
• Delegation & Multiplication:
  You scale through people, not heroics. You have a history of developing team members and multiplying impact through others.
• Navigating Ambiguity:
  You set direction when requirements evolve. You build alignment across teams and functions without formal authority.
• Balanced Judgment:
  You balance innovation with pragmatic delivery constraints. You know when to push for quality and when to ship.
• Directed AI‑Assisted Development:
  You understand how AI coding tools work as a productivity multiplier and can guide your team’s adoption while maintaining quality…