Director, Planning & Allocation Technology

Director, Planning & Allocation Technology

• Full-time
• Workplace Type:
  Onsite
• Department: HQ - Technology
• Compensation: USD 181200 - USD 242550 - yearly

Vuori is re-defining what athletic apparel looks like: built to move and sweat in but designed with a casual aesthetic to transition into everyday life. We draw inspiration from an active coastal California lifestyle; an integration of fitness, creative expression and life. Our high energy fast paced retail environment is reflected in the clothes we make. We aim to inspire others to take on all aspects of their lives with clarity, enthusiasm and purpose…while having a lot of fun along the way.

We are proud to be an outlet for opportunity and for personal growth and success.

Vuori is one of the fastest-growing apparel brands in the world, and the way we plan andallocateproducthas tokeep pace.

We'relooking for a technically strong product leader to own the strategy and roadmap for our merchandise planning and allocation capabilities — spanning pre-season and in-season planning, top-down and bottom-up, and how inventory flows to our stores and distribution centers. You'll partner with Data Science to put machine learning and advanced forecasting into the hands of our planners, work closely with Merchandising and Planning leadership to shape how that work actually getsdone, and lead and grow a small team of Product Managers and Analysts.

This is a role for someone as energized by explainability and user adoption as by the technology itself — because the best forecast in the worlddoesn'tmove the business if planners don'ttrust it.

Whatyou'llget to do:

• Own the product roadmap for our merchandise planning and allocation capabilities,prioritizing business impact, technical feasibility, and adoption of readiness.
• Partner with Data Science as a technical peer to develop and product ionize forecasting capabilities — machine learning models, probabilistic forecasting, and attribute-based new-item demand modeling — and own the explainability requirements that make planners trust them.
• Drive adoption of system-generated forecasts as a primary measure ofsuccess andestablishforecast accuracy and forecast value-add measurement,so model performance and business impact stay visible.
• Partner with Planning, Merchandising, and Technology leadership to evolve the planning and allocation operating model around human-in-the-loop decision-making — helping define what the system decides, what the planner decides, and where exceptions escalat
• Keep a pulse on emerging technology across planning, forecasting, and AI, assessing what is genuinely production-ready and building it into the roadmap on a realistic timeline.
• Own the product requirements for the data foundation behind planning intelligence, partnering with Data Engineering on pipeline timing, data quality, and the data products forecasting and allocation depend on.
• Lead, coach, and develop a small team of Product Managers and Analysts, raising the bar on technical fluency,requirements ofquality, and outcome of ownership.
• Collaborate with on/offshore development partners on solution design and delivery and represent planning and allocation priorities in agile ceremonies and quarterly planning.

Who you are:

• 10+ years in product management, analytics, or planning technology, with meaningful exposure to retail merchandise planning, allocation, or demand forecasting.
• 2+ years managing or mentoring product managers or analysts, with the communication skills to explain technical trade-offs to merchants and planners, and business trade-offs to engineers and data scientists.
• You have shipped a machine learning or advanced analytics capability into a business user's day-to-day workflow — not a dashboard, and not a proof of concept that…