Engineering Manager - ML Platform

Company Description

H&M is on a journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today and tomorrow. Through collaboration, innovation, and technology, we challenge ourselves and the industry. To cater to the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, our tech organization delivers solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands. We are accelerating digitalization, and to stay relevant, we need to ensure we have strong leaders in place to bring our best capabilities, innovation ideas, and talented technologists to support the transformation of H&M. 
 
Would you like to work in an internationally agile-driven environment on solutions used in various parts of the world? Do you consider yourself a proactive, self-driven colleague who can take full ownership of the initiative working both independently and as part of a group? 

Job Description

The role has a dual focus – staff responsibility and delivery. As a ML Platform Engineering Manager, you will have staff responsibility over employees within the same/adjacent competence as your own. Your staff responsibility goes ML platform solutions and tasks include development conversations, salary review and other staff related activities. You will have the responsibility to build up a high-performing team of talented individuals. You will work in an agile team, with the responsibility for creating and designing solutions which fulfils organisational standards on Artificial Intelligence.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that new functionality is made available in accordance with industry best practice and H&M Standards and Guardrails for the full AI development life cycle.
• Translate product strategy and requirement into suitable, maintainable and scalable solution design.
• Collaborate closely with product owner and other cross-functional teams, share best practice as well as discuss and motivate design solutions.
• As staff responsible, you will be involved in the development and growth of your team members (both consultants and employees), providing vision and clarity on their journey.
• Responsible for working with performance management and salary review for their employees as well as budget planning, rolling forecasting, financial reporting.
• Work with multiple stakeholders and navigate complex ML Platform structuring and flow.
• Provide clear prioritization of new business needs vs. maintenance of current estate of ML Platform products. Ensure our vendors are performing up to our expectations, resolving any impediments.

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Experience: 

• Agile and product-driven mindset, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions. 
• Deep understanding of ML and its flow, proven working in a global context.
• Passion for ML with proven experience in building a successful community of practice. 
• Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence. 
• Demonstrable experience in stakeholder management at both executive and operational levels. 
• Full fluency in English, both written and verbal. 
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels within the organization. 
• Solution-oriented, with a proactive approach to challenges and a continuous improvement mentality. 
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills. 
• Create a strong team culture where people collaborate and grow together. 
• Experience with performance management, salary review, budget planning, rolling forecasting, financial reporting. 

Additional Information

What we offer

Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, flexible work life, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits etc. you are joining a unique value driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. There are endless opportunities to experiment and grow in any direction that you want and when you grow, we grow. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.  

Additional information

This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm. If your experience, skills, and ambitions are right for this role, please apply with CV in English. 
 
Please do not send applications to individual email address, due to GDPR, we only accept applications through our career page. We look forward to receiving your application! 
 
H&M Group is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability or age.