Technology Director – Search and Recommendations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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The Home Depot

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1978

🏗️ Construction

📦 Logistics

🛒 Retail

💰 Debt Financing on 2007-07

Construction • Logistics • Retail

The Home Depot is a leading home improvement retailer, offering a wide range of building materials, home improvement products, lawn and garden products, and related services. The company operates both physical stores and an online platform, providing comprehensive solutions for DIY enthusiasts, professional contractors, and homeowners. The Home Depot is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, providing employment opportunities and benefits to a diverse workforce. Additionally, the company places a high emphasis on customer service and associate engagement to maintain its position as a trusted leader in the home improvement industry.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical strategy, roadmap, architecture, and delivery of The Home Depot’s .com and Mobile App products • Partner with functional and technical leaders to identify and plan capabilities for short- and long-term business needs • Develop and execute strategic plans supporting key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner • Drive strategic alignment and partnerships with functional and technical peers and leaders • Evaluate research, market analysis, third-party vendors, industry innovations, and technology platforms to inform strategy • Establish and nurture strategic vendor relationships and align vendors with enterprise strategic objectives • Apply technical and domain expertise to provide thought leadership and translate vision into action • Define and communicate value propositions, success metrics, and outcomes • Ensure quality and change control standards are met • Develop and implement sustainable, repeatable, reliable processes and oversee process improvement • Drive operational excellence, meet operational metrics, and prioritize external customer needs • Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports • Manage and coordinate strategic direction for staff • Attract, retain, develop, and motivate top talent • Conduct annual and mid-year reviews, review development plans, and provide performance feedback • Typically report to a Sr. Director or Vice President • Travel overnight 5% to 20% of the time

🎯 Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States • End-to-end ownership of Search, Personalization & Recommendations platforms • Experience leading high-traffic e-commerce systems spanning relevance and ranking, query understanding, personalization logic, and large-scale experimentation • Business-aligned technical strategy and roadmap execution • Experience with A/B testing, incrementality measurement, and multi-armed bandits • Experience overseeing ML-powered ranking and recommendation systems, behavioral data pipelines, real-time inference, feature stores, latency optimization, and resilience guardrails • Experience building and scaling senior engineering organizations • Knowledge of CI/CD, trunk-based development, test automation, DevOps, and SRE practices • Experience partnering with VP+ leaders across Product, UX, Data Science, Marketing, Finance, Legal, Risk, and InfoSec • Experience owning platform budgets and vendor strategy • Knowledge of data privacy, security, compliance, responsible experimentation, and ML governance • Experience leading at a Sr. Manager level or above within a fast-paced, multi-division, national company • Experience defining, communicating, and driving value propositions, success metrics, and outcomes • Experience shaping, aligning, and guiding execution of strategic direction for a domain or significant portfolio segment • Experience communicating, building influence, and developing relationships with functional and technical leaders and vendor partners • Experience selecting and leading strategic vendor relationships or acting as the primary point of contact for strategic partnerships • Experience managing and developing direct reports with their own span of control • Deep market and industry knowledge for a related portfolio segment or domain • Bachelor's degree or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job • Minimum 8 years of work experience