Director, Ecommerce Engineering

We are the champions of childhood

Hanna Andersson is a Portland, Oregon-based premier kids and baby clothing brand . Our clothes are made to play, made to last, and designed to let kids be kids . We have core commitments to design, quality, and sustainability, and we believe in helping families create meaningful everyday moments. These principles guide the Hanna Way, and lead to an experience authentically different from other children’s brands.
We cultivate our unique brand by hiring team members who believe in these values, own a customer service mindset, and who are innovative, results-oriented, and comfortable working in a collaborative and growth-driven work environment. We all share in our brand’s success, and we actively encourage our team members to maintain a healthy balance in their daily lives.

Position Summary

The Director of Ecommerce Engineering is a technology leader responsible for delivering secure, scalable, reliable, and high-performing digital commerce solutions that enable exceptional customer experiences and support Hanna Andersson 's long-term growth.

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, this role leads the ecommerce engineering organization through people leadership, technical stewardship, operational excellence, and cross-functional partnership. The Director is accountable for building high-performing engineering teams, delivering strategic initiatives, modernizing the commerce platform, and ensuring technology investments align with business objectives.

The Director will lead the evolution of Hanna's commerce ecosystem - including Salesforce Commerce Cloud, headless commerce, payment platforms, customer data capabilities and CRM, AI-enabled engineering practices, OMS, product information mangement, POS, and future omnichannel initiatives - while driving continuous improvement in engineering quality, delivery, reliability, and operational efficiency.

This is a full-time, exempt position. The role may be remote or hybrid based on business needs and requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams. The Director is expected to support critical production events, peak business periods, and high-priority initiatives while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

What You'll Do:

Engineering Leadership & Organizational Health

- Build, lead, coach, and retain a high-performing engineering organization of 1-4 scrum teams, through hiring, mentoring, performance management, career development, and contracting.

- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, quality of craft, continuous learning, and operational excellence.

- Establish clear expectations, monitor organizational health, and ensure the team has the skills, capacity, and engagement necessary to meet business objectives.

- Work closely with other IT leaders across Infrastructure, Data, Technical, Operations and Infosec to ensure platforms, integrations, and services meet enterprise standards for security, reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence.

Delivery Execution & Engineering Operations

- Own delivery of the ecommerce engineering roadmap, ensuring predictable execution of strategic initiatives, releases, operational priorities, and production support.

- Manage priorities, dependencies, risks, resourcing, and release readiness while improving delivery quality, transparency, and predictability.

- Continuously improve engineering operating practices, including Agile delivery, SDLC, QA, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, incident response, and operational support.

- Establish and monitor KPIs to assess team and stack performance and use data-driven insights to inform decisions.

Technical Leadership & Platform Stewardship

- Provide technical leadership across ecommerce applications, integrations, architecture, and platform modernization initiatives.

- Establish engineering standards that promote scalability, maintainability, ext