Job ID: 248287
Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 350 Mission St, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Information Technology
Remote Eligible:Hybrid Schedule

Company Overview:

At Sephora we inspire our customers, empower our teams, and help them become the best versions of themselves. We create an environment where people are valued, and differences are celebrated. Every day, our teams across the world bring to life our purpose: to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the Extra Ordinary in each of us. We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

The Opportunity:

As a leader of Sephora’s Front-End Engineering practice, you will be responsible for the technical strategy for foundational frameworks and client-side technology systems for Sephora.com. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Digital Client Experience, you will be key to long-term strategic direction and supporting ongoing agile delivery by a diverse, distributed engineering organization. You will manage a team of seasoned systems and application architects to build on a tradition of high-quality experiences and capability. You will work closely with other engineering and technology teams, pro duct management, and your business partners to lead and execute an ambitious portfolio of initiatives. 

• Manage a team of managers, architects, and engineers, provide leadership to much larger cross-functional group of teams across all parts of the organization
• Set long term strategy for client-facing applications including Javascript applications with Node.js, React.js and emerging frameworks, including supporting technologies to provide high availability, stability, security, accessibility, seo and superior client experience
• Responsible for one or more cross functional product delivery teams
• Create innovative new technical solutions to known business problems
• Provide technical guidance and maintain standards for delivery of multiple key online initiatives, partnering closely with technology and business partners
• Own and manage the front-end technology stack, its foundation and implementation for sephora.com and other properties
• Recruit and hire top talent for the front-end engineering team
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture team to establish and maintain standards for your domain
• Work with other engineering and product leaders to evolve our delivery processes and drive cross-team collaboration and cooperation
• Provide training and professional development opportunities for full-time employees
• Demonstrate our Sephora values of Passion for Client Service, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect for All, Teamwork, and Initiative.

We’re Excited About You If You Have 

• 10 years of engineering leadership responsibility; retail or ecommerce experience is a plus
• Experience developing and delivering using Agile methodologies
• Prior hands-on experience with front-end technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, node.js, React/Angular, CDNs,
• Experience designing API strategies for high performing applications
• Understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, object-oriented-programming (OOP), functional programming, frameworks and technologies
• Demonstrated experience manage effectively through organizational growth and change
• Capability to move quickly between strategic and tactical, understanding context, connecting seemingly unconnected ideas and taking action
• Experience managing large and growing CapEx and OpEx budgets
• Strong communication skills (verbal and listening) as well as the ability to influence key decision makers and understand their points of view
• Strong leadership, negotiation and execution skills with the ability to drive results, deliver and excel, and own it when you don’t

The annual base salary range for this position is $201,240.00 - $248,400.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant’s qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job. Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses. Sephora offers a generous benefits package to full-time employees, which includes comprehensive health, dental and vision plans; a superior 401(k) plan, various paid time off programs; employee discount/perks; life insurance; disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; and an employee referral bonus program. This job will be posted for a minimum of 5 days.

While at Sephora, you’ll enjoy… 

• The people. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented leaders and teams – people you can be proud to work with.
• The learning. We invest in training and developing our teams, and you will continue evolving and building your skills through personalized career plans.
• The culture. As a leading beauty retailer within the LVMH family, our reach is broad, and our impact is global. It is in our DNA to innovate and, at Sephora, all 40,000 passionate team members across 35 markets and 3,000 stores, are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

You can unleash your creativity, because we’ve got disruptive spirit. You can learn and evolve, because we empower you to be your best. You can be yourself, because you are what sets us apart. This, is the future of beauty. Reimagine your future, at Sephora.

Sephora is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military/veteran status, or disability status. Sephora is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Sephora will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.