Engineering Manager, WMS

About the role

This role is for a hands-on manager who can lead two teams end-to-end, keep delivery predictable, and stay close enough to the systems to make good calls under pressure. You should have strong engineering fundamentals yourself: this isn't a role for someone who's drifted away from the technical side of the job.

Responsibilities

• 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, since 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Skills

• Strong communication: You communicate clearly with engineers, PMs, and executives. You translate technical complexity into business language and vice versa.
• 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.
• 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 are evolving. 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 and independent technical judgment.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Elixir or another functional, concurrency-oriented language (Erlang, Scala, Clojure).
• Background in warehouse management, logistics, or another real-time operational system.

What We're Looking For

• Strong engineering fundamentals.
• People management fundamentals.
• Delivery ownership.
• Comfort with ambiguity.
• Production mindset.

Required Soft Skills

• 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 are evolving. 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 and independent technical judgment.

About Stord

Stord is a cloud-based supply chain platform that enables brands to compete and grow through end-to-end logistics solutions. We process over $10B in commerce annually and operate across Order Management (OMS), Warehouse Management (WMS), Transportation Management (TMS), Consumer Experience, and Demand Planning. We are backed by leading investors and are rapidly scaling our engineering organization to match our ambitions.