Senior Engineering Manager - Merchandise

Role overview

Senior Engineering Manager for Stitch Fix’s Merchandising Engineering team, leading and growing engineering teams while owning and improving the end-to-end procurement journey—from product discovery and buying decisions through purchase orders and physical receipt in warehouses.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow engineering teams with a people-first, empathetic, ownership-oriented culture.
• Own and improve the procurement lifecycle: product discovery → buying decisions → purchase orders → warehouse receipt.
• Mentor and develop engineers, setting clear technical and execution standards.
• Partner with business stakeholders, algo/science, product management, and design to set priorities and plan the roadmap.
• Facilitate technical design discussions, remove blockers, and align stakeholders.
• Drive engineering programs focused on reliability, productivity, process, and quality.
• Recruit and retain high-performing engineering talent and build diverse teams.
• Ship features that delight internal users (buyers, planners, pricing, product lifecycle partners).

Requirements

• 4+ years of leading and managing high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong strategic thinking and proactive identification of business opportunities.

Nice-to-haves / additional signals

• Comfort working in a distributed team across multiple time zones.
• Experience improving workflows, reducing manual effort, and building scalable systems with measurable business impact.

Team context

The Selection Product Team supports inventory intelligence and merchandising decision-making through tools spanning Product Catalog, Buying, Selling / Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), directing over $100M in inventory investments and enabling $1.3B+ annualized revenue.