Front End Web Dev Mgr

Title – FEWD Manager
Location: Bengaluru, India
Reports to: Director, FEWD

Summary

This role leads a team of front-end web developers – part of a multi-disciplinary product team which 
focuses on envisioning, designing, developing, and delivering customer facing commerce and 
engagement experiences for our family of brands. This role is responsible for hiring, developing, and 
managing talent for our front-end team and be responsible for task management, capacity planning, 
process development, continuous improvement, and the professional development of members of 
your team. This is a hands-on role – carrying out regular team coaching and mentoring, while leading 
by example through hands-on project management, technical design review, development, and 
support.

Responsibilities :


• Keep up to date on emerging trends, technologies, and market developments.

• Ensures that the front-end development team is consistently delivering working software that 
is attuned to requirements and adheres to quality standards.

• Coaches and mentor's members of immediate team to develop the skills and practices 
necessary for individual development and realization of our business goals.

• Contributes to establishment of talent pipeline.

• Provides solutions to process, project, and organizational issues within the team through 
communication and consensus building.

• Leads multiple simultaneous development projects and helps the team prioritize around 
constraints, timing, and capacity.

• Leads front end development team through change and helps them to arrive at technology, 
process, and personnel solutions and improvements.

• Ensures that front end development team understands agile practices and is adhering to 
these practices.

• Collaborates on the development and maintenance of standards for front-end technology.

• Responsible for all aspects of product/project delivery, including cross-functional team 
collaboration.

• Communicates and collaborates across product team boundaries to ensure alignment of 
purpose and focus on priorities that bring value to the business.

• Understands the priorities of the business and cross-functional product teams and ensures 
that the development team is focusing on delivering value in these areas.

• Interfaces with managers of other functions to operationalize platform strategy.
Scope of Decision Making

• Devises and implements internal team processes that maximize the efficiency of the team.

• Actively engaged with leadership at all levels across the larger front-end team and can 
engage in and assist with decision making that impacts the team as a whole.

• Maintains knowledge of and can effectively choose how to enact Agile principles within the 
team to achieve business goals.

• Understands the process and technology decisions of cross-functional teams and how these 
impact the day-to-day operations of the front-end development team; can communicate 
internal team processes to partners where they might impact other team processes and 
decision making.

• Acts independently and with good judgement to fulfill projects; knows when to manage 
complexity up.

• Develops a broad working knowledge of product team goals across the platform and can 
communicate these to front end development team.

• Can identify and manage up decisions made within the font-end team that could impact 
other areas of the platform or business.

• Can identify and manage up third-party vendor relationships and technical issues that could 
impact other areas of the platform or business.

Qualifications and Skills


• Ability to provide strong, consistent leadership and prior experience managing a team of 
developers.

• Strong background in front-end development with both technical and visual expertise

• Expert in Web Standards, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Deep knowledge of and discipline in the application of Web development best practices

• Experience with agile methodologies and supporting practices, tools, and technology.

• Experience with automated testing, continuous integration & deployment, and supporting 
tools and technology.
Years of Related Experience & Education

• 10-12 years hands-on site-building experience, with a focus on retail brands or 
other environment with very high standards for presentation-layer build/customer 
experience

• Minimum 3 years' experience managing a team of Web developers, preferably in a heavily 
cross-functional environment.

• Experience leading developers organized into product teams using Agile methodologies.

• Experience working for retail brands or other environment with very high standards for 
presentation layer is a plus.

• E-commerce experience preferred.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant experience