Leap Powered Brands:Ring Concierge, Frank and Oak, Naadam, Something Navy, GoodLife, Mark Welden, UpWest, Public Rec, Vincero, Yoga Democracy, KES, Aurate, Little Word Project and many more.

Leap develops and operates modern physical retail stores for emerging brands. Via the Leap platform, brands rapidly deploy efficient, modern stores that work in concert with their e-commerce customer experiences. Brand stores powered by Leap deliver outstanding customer experience and powerful insights that enable emerging brands to grow and innovate more quickly and more profitably, with significantly. We're excited by the opportunity to reinvent retail for the next generation of leading brands and consumers.

We're searching for a dynamic and entrepreneurial Market Manager to oversee our fast growing Chicago Market.The Market Manager plays an integral role in curating the foundation for ourbrick-and-mortar business and acting as liaison between our brand and our customers. Being the face of Leap, our team will have an immediate and direct impact on the success of the business and brand awareness in our home market. Our team not only provides an exceptional shopping experience but treats their store with a sense of pride and ownership.

As a Market Manager, you will help build out this exciting new retail model for Leap, while gainingfirsthandexposure to a few exciting and prominent brands. You will take pride and ownership in being part of the best team and know that you are an integral part in shaping the next frontier ofbrick-and-mortarretail.

What You’ll Do

• Directly manage thein-storelocation and oversee the eight stores and growing in the Scottsdale cluster.
• Take pride in demonstrating a World Class work ethic.
• Be a trustworthy leader who guides with integrity at all times and continually acts in the best interest of the brand and the customer.
• Create a nurturing work environment filled with people who respect one another and who enjoy building a sense of community.
• Manage ahigh-volumebusiness that is transaction and operations focused, ensuring the team'sabilityto multitask, shipmentprocessing andetc.
• Build out and approve staffing schedules for teams.
• Demonstrate sales leadership by playing an active role in sellingenvironment.
• Ensure presentation of all displays, fixtures and visuals are reflective directives.
• Identify and communicate any product concerns and inventory insights for Area. 
• Ensure teams are able to properly process shipments in a timely manner.
• Monitor the movement of all inventory and ensure that staff adheres to all Shipping/Receiving policies and procedures, and meet inventory shrink requirements.
• Liaise directly with the Retail Operations team to manage and react to potential changes with leasing calendar, brand rotation, etc., to keep up the flow of operations between brands.
• Build and maintain effective communication with members of corporate office and other stores.
• Ensure the selling floor is consistently neat, clean, organized and reflects standards set forth by visual initiatives.
• Ensure employees image and grooming standards are adhered to at all times, reflective of the brand vibe and image.

Our Ideal Candidate

• You take pride in being smart, fun, andself-motivated.
• You have 4+ years of big box or high volume retail management experience.
• You're excited to work for an emerging brand and about contributing to the company’s growth.
• You have sharp analytical skills, including basic retail math, understanding of capacity levels, calculating inventory on-hands, tracking sales throughout your shift, etc.
• You’re comfortable using technology to perform all job functions including sales reporting, communication between stores and HQ offices, managing inventory, and corresponding with customers.
• You're experienced with customers and motivated to help them through the store experience from start to finish.
• You love being organized and have an eye for details.
• You place value on being a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit.
• You'd describe yourself as positive, passionate about fashion, high energy, and eager to learn.
• You're excited to increase brand exposure in your personal market.
• You're able to work a retail schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays (40n hour work week).
• Comfortable working with/using a ladder and lifting a maximum of 50lbs.

Leap Assets

• Career growth opportunities
• Exceptional employee discount on product
• Continued education (e-learning and training)
• Medical, vision and dental insurance, 401(K)

In order to achieve our mission, we need to work hard to create a diverse community of Leapers to support the brand and customers we serve and help us all grow and thrive individually and as a team. Our differences make our organization special and are paramount to our culture. Your age, skin color, beliefs, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, parental status, vet status, gender identity are valued.

About Leap:

Leap is building the world's largest network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems, and scale.  The Leap Platform enables brands to deploy stores that work in concert with ecommerce more rapidly and at significantly reduced cost and risk.  Brand stores powered by Leap bring modern brands to life with compelling, immersive customer experience and data driven operations. 

At Leap, our diverse, growing team is excited by the opportunity to power the next generation of leading consumer brands with a vibrant presence in local communities throughout the country.  We're one of the fastest growing companies in the retail/ecommerce space - since launch we've powered stores for dozens of brands, and we're adding more brands and stores each week.

Our brand customers are modern brands who lead or aspire to lead their categories today and tomorrow, and *outstanding* people are literally at the core of our product.  Our organization is composed of a diverse range of talented individuals and teams.  With functions like Real Estate, Store Design & Development, Retail Operations, Marketing, Engineering, Product Management and Data Science, we're a truly unique company and our shared ambitions and core values tightly align and drive us to succeed.

Our staff are what make our organization so special and honoring our culture and values as we hire, onboard, engage, develop and support our teams is paramount.

Come take this leap with us. Your ideas, thinking, and voice are wanted.

Senior Data Engineer

Mission For The position:

The Analytics Engineering team effectively and sustainably provides data solutions and tools across the organization. We integrate, transform, and improve volumes of data at the project or enterprise level for streamlined processes, greater efficiencies, and smarter, more informed decision-making. This team is high-energy, dynamic and in a business-critical domain space. This role is an opportunity to make a real difference in the data space, and we need confident, experienced people eager to bring in solutions, with a demonstrated ability to learn fast and make that happen.

Key Responsibilities:

You'll work closely with our business teams to make sure the most awesome, high-potential brands join the Leap platform. You'll also help analyze our existing brands and store operations to make sure we're maximizing and optimizing their performance. You'll pair regularly with analytics and engineering to make sure that common analyses get automated, so that we can spend our collective brainpower on the new and unusual.

What You'll Do:

• Support the data needs of Analytics, Machine Learning, and Business.
• Lead technical initiatives by architecting the solution and collaborating with team members and peers to execute the solution
• Architect, design, implement and maintaining multi-layered SQL and Python processes
• Design flexible and scalable data models
• Enhance the tooling and frameworks to support complex Extract Transform Load (ETL) processes
• Troubleshooting discrepancies in existing databases, data pipelines, warehouses, and reporting
• Function as mentor and adviser for team members
• Advise on Best Practices and innovative designs/solutions

Our Ideal Candidate Has:

• A Bachelor’s degree or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of previous experience in data engineering with a focus on database related technologies
• Expert technical knowledge of SQL and database related technologies.
• 2+ years of experience working with Cloud Data Warehouse Technologies such as BigQuery, Snowflake, or Redshift.
• 1+ years of experience working with Python, dbt, Airflow or other workflow orchestration frameworks.
• Deep understanding of relational database modeling principles and techniques.
• Experience architecting, designing, and implementing ETL solutions with peers and stakeholders.
• Experience with data streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Apache Flink, Apache Beam, etc).
• Experience with data visualization technologies such as Looker, Tableau, or Microstrategy.
• Experience supporting organizations using Machine Learning.

In your first month, you will:

• Go to our stores, ask questions, try on products, buy products, return products, and experience being a customer first-hand
• Plunge into our existing databases to answer straightforward analytics questions
• Pair with our engineers to understand our existing ETLs and data 
• Communicate constantly with an encouraging, supportive team

Leap EEO Statement

However, you identify, whatever your path to get here; Leap celebrates diversity and is committed to maintaining a safe, rewarding, and inclusive environment where Leapers thrive individually and as a team. To achieve our mission, building the world's largest network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems, and scale; we need to work hard to foster a diverse community to support the brands and customers we serve. These aren't just words; this is who we are. We know that our differences are what make our organization special and are paramount to our culture. Your age, skin color, beliefs, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, parental status, vet status, gender identity are valued.

About Leap:

Leap is building the world's largest network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems, and scale.  The Leap Platform enables brands to deploy stores that work in concert with ecommerce more rapidly and at significantly reduced cost and risk.  Brand stores powered by Leap bring modern brands to life with compelling, immersive customer experience and data driven operations.  At Leap, our diverse, growing team is excited by the opportunity to power the next generation of leading consumer brands with a vibrant presence in local communities throughout the country.  We're one of the fastest growing companies in the retail/ecommerce space - since launch we've powered stores for dozens of brands, and we're adding more brands and stores each week.

Our brand customers are modern brands who lead or aspire to lead their categories today and tomorrow, and *outstanding* people are literally at the core of our product.  Our organization is composed of a diverse range of talented individuals and teams.  With functions like Real Estate, Store Design & Development, Retail Operations, Marketing, Engineering, Product Management and Data Science, we're a truly unique company and our shared ambitions and core values tightly align and drive us to succeed.

Our staff are what make our organization so special and honoring our culture and values as we hire, onboard, engage, develop and support our teams is paramount.

Come take this leap with us. Your ideas, thinking, and voice are wanted.

Machine Learning Operations Engineer

Mission for the position:

As a senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer you willdevelop a self-service foundation for applications of machine learning that will provide scalable business impact.Machine Learning Operations Engineers empower our Machine Learning Engineers to bring their powerful predictive models to production where they drive business critical decisions for Leap and our brand partners. You’ll have the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of Machine Learning infrastructure and make foundational decisions about the architecture of the platform.

Key responsibilities:

You'll collaborate with machine learning engineers, data engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver systems that enable fast paced ML development.You'll ensure that applications and data pipelines meet production standards and performance expectations.You'll also regularly pair with our Product and Engineering teams to truly automate applied ML solutions into our testable, monitorable software platform.

What you'll do:

• Design and build Leap’s next generation ML feature store
• Develop infrastructure for training and serving ML models at scale 
• Design self-service and user-friendly tools, APIs, and services that power all of ML at Leap
• Partner with machine learning and data engineers to solve complex feature engineering, data ingestion, pipeline and governance problems for machine learning solutions
• Provide technical mentorship, guidance, and quality-focused code review to ML engineers
• Take ownership of production systems with a focus on delivery, continuous integration, and automation of machine learning workloads
• Serve as a trusted advisor on the application and implementation of ML across Leap

Our ideal candidate has:

• A Bachelor’s degree or Masters in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience (ML-focused highly preferred)
• 1+ years of experience developing cloud-native solutions 
• Technical experience using modern data tools like dbt and BigQuery
• Familiarity with the practical aspects of machine learning. Prior experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or Data Scientist is a big plus.
• Knowledge of Machine Learning orchestration frameworks like GCP Vertex AI, AWS Sagemaker, Flyte, Metaflow, Prefect, Kubeflow, etc.
• Knowledge of big data processing tools like Spark, EMR, etc.

In your first month, you will:

• Go to our stores, ask questions, try on products, buy products, return products, and experience being a customer first-hand
• Plunge into our existing databases to understand our existing data structures and pipelines
• Learn the fundamental unit economics of our stores and our business 
• Pair with our engineers to understand our existing ETLs and data
• Pair with our ML engineers to understand their training and deployment needs
• Communicate constantly with an encouraging, supportive team

About Leap

Leap is building the world's largest network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems, and scale.  The Leap Platform enables brands to deploy stores that work in concert with ecommerce more rapidly and at significantly reduced cost and risk.  Brand stores powered by Leap bring modern brands to life with compelling, immersive customer experience and data driven operations.  At Leap, our diverse, growing team is excited by the opportunity to power the next generation of leading consumer brands with a vibrant presence in local communities throughout the country.  We're one of the fastest growing companies in the retail/ecommerce space - since launch we've powered stores for dozens of brands, and we're adding more brands and stores each week.

In 2021, just our third full calendar year in business, we grew 4x+ by every measure and are heading into 2022 with 50 stores open, 30+ active brands in our store footprint (500+ total registered) and a team of 300+ and poised to grow another 5x in the near term.  The year ahead promises to be even more exciting, with new platform capabilities launching, an ambitious revenue plan and expansion of our operations and customer base across existing and new markets. 

Our brand customers are modern brands who lead or aspire to lead their categories today and tomorrow, and *outstanding* people are literally at the core of our product.  Our organization is composed of a diverse range of talented individuals and teams.  With functions like Real Estate, Store Design & Development, Retail Operations, Marketing, Engineering, Product Management and Data Science, we're a unique company.  Our shared ambitions and core values tightly align and drive us to succeed. Our staff are what make our organization so special and honoring our culture and values as we hire, onboard, engage, develop and support our teams is paramount.  

Come take thisleapwith us. Your ideas, thinking, and voice are wanted.

Mission for the position:

As a data practitioner and senior leader of the function, you’ll build and manage a core team of data and analytics professionals. You’ll bring world-class expertise, practices, and tools to an already high-caliber team. You’ll make this team and tools deeply integrated with Leap’s product and engineering teams and tools. You’ll help define and promulgate high standards and expectations for our ML engineers, analytics engineers, and analytics managers.

As Vice President of Data, you’ll work outside your team to collaborate with functional teams on building data literacy and savvy throughout the business. You’ll work closely with Product to make sure Leap’s data is leveraged thoroughly and accurately in brand-facing tools. You’ll work closely with Sales and Real Estate to build data-driven practices and workflows. You’ll work closely with our People team to build data-driven and modern hiring and management practices. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Hire and cultivate a growing team of analytics engineers, managers, and ML practitioners
• Contribute to productive work alongside engineers and analysts
• Use a Product mindset to evaluate opportunities, priorities, and strategies
• Use an Engineering mindset to drive standardization and automation
• Be encouraging, supportive, kind, fun, sensitive, honest, a great teacher, and above all, a great student

Competencies for Success:

• 10 years+ full-time analytics/data engineering work experienceand familiarity with modern practices
• Experience hiring and managing ML engineering practitioners
• Experience with modern ELT pipelines and tools (dbt, Stitch, Bigquery, etc)
• Experience with modern ML frameworks and deployment frameworks
• Familiarity with Python and conventional software development processes, like environment promotion, version control, and automated testing
• Almost compulsive need to organize and clarify 
• Humility and high aptitude for learning and self-improvement
• High level of comfort working along a dynamic and evolving roadmap
• Innately curious, wants to understand all parts of Leap’s business, encourages innovation and creative problem solving with others
• Entrepreneurial mindset and working style - self-starting, highly accountable, ability to anticipate problems and define and implement effective solutions

Outcomes & measures of success:

• Increased utilization of Leap network data by our brands to grow their businesses
• Better data-driven decision-making by internal Leap functions
• Increased data literacy and self-sufficiency among Leap staff

Why take the leap? 

• The mission at Leap - to build the world’s largest network of branded retails stores – powered by data, systems, and scale, is literally transforming the future of retail, and all Leapers contribute to making this happen.
• We offer a competitive salary, performance bonus, employee option grants, 401K, paid sabbatical, heritage holidays, charitable donation match, discounts across all our brands, meaningful health, and well-being benefits and MORE! 
• We believe and invest in professional development and internal advancement.
• We offer a work environment that is diverse, inclusive, and FUN! 

Leap EEO Statement

However, you identify, whatever your path to get here; Leap celebrates diversity and is committed to maintaining a safe, rewarding, and inclusive environment where Leapers thrive individually and as a team. 

To achieve our mission, building the world's largest network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems, and scale; we need to work hard to foster a diverse community to support the brands and customers we serve. These aren't just words; this is who we are. We know that our differences are what make our organization special and are paramount to our culture. Your age, skin color, beliefs, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, parental status, vet status, gender identity are valued.

To achieve our mission, building the world's largest network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems, and scale; we need to work hard to foster a diverse community to support the brands and customers we serve. These aren't just words; this is who we are. We know that our differences are what make our organization special and are paramount to our culture. Your age, skin color, beliefs, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, parental status, vet status, gender identity are valued.

Leap Powered Brands:Ring Concierge, Frank and Oak, Naadam, Something Navy, GoodLife, Mark Welden, UpWest, Public Rec, Vincero, Yoga Democracy, KES, Aurate, Little Word Project and many more.

Leap develops and operates modern physical retail stores for emerging brands. Via the Leap platform, brands rapidly deploy efficient, modern stores that work in concert with their e-commerce customer experiences. Brand stores powered by Leap deliver outstanding customer experience and powerful insights that enable emerging brands to grow and innovate more quickly and more profitably, with significantly. We're excited by the opportunity to reinvent retail for the next generation of leading brands and consumers.

We're searching for a dynamic and entrepreneurial Market Manager to oversee our Georgetown cluster in DC.The Market Manager plays an integral role in curating the foundation for ourbrick-and-mortar business and acting as liaison between our brand and our customers. Being the face of Leap, our team will have an immediate and direct impact on the success of the business and brand awareness in our home market. Our team not only provides an exceptional shopping experience but treats their store with a sense of pride and ownership.

As a Market Manager, you will help build out this exciting new retail model for Leap, while gainingfirsthandexposure to a few exciting and prominent brands. You will take pride and ownership in being part of the best team and know that you are an integral part in shaping the next frontier ofbrick-and-mortarretail.

What You’ll Do

• Directly manage thein-storelocation and oversee the eight stores and growing in the Scottsdale cluster.
• Take pride in demonstrating a World Class work ethic.
• Be a trustworthy leader who guides with integrity at all times and continually acts in the best interest of the brand and the customer.
• Create a nurturing work environment filled with people who respect one another and who enjoy building a sense of community.
• Manage ahigh-volumebusiness that is transaction and operations focused, ensuring the team'sabilityto multitask, shipmentprocessing andetc.
• Build out and approve staffing schedules for teams.
• Demonstrate sales leadership by playing an active role in sellingenvironment.
• Ensure presentation of all displays, fixtures and visuals are reflective directives.
• Identify and communicate any product concerns and inventory insights for Area. 
• Ensure teams are able to properly process shipments in a timely manner.
• Monitor the movement of all inventory and ensure that staff adheres to all Shipping/Receiving policies and procedures, and meet inventory shrink requirements.
• Liaise directly with the Retail Operations team to manage and react to potential changes with leasing calendar, brand rotation, etc., to keep up the flow of operations between brands.
• Build and maintain effective communication with members of corporate office and other stores.
• Ensure the selling floor is consistently neat, clean, organized and reflects standards set forth by visual initiatives.
• Ensure employees image and grooming standards are adhered to at all times, reflective of the brand vibe and image.

Our Ideal Candidate

• You take pride in being smart, fun, andself-motivated.
• You have 4+ years of big box or high volume retail management experience.
• You're excited to work for an emerging brand and about contributing to the company’s growth.
• You have sharp analytical skills, including basic retail math, understanding of capacity levels, calculating inventory on-hands, tracking sales throughout your shift, etc.
• You’re comfortable using technology to perform all job functions including sales reporting, communication between stores and HQ offices, managing inventory, and corresponding with customers.
• You're experienced with customers and motivated to help them through the store experience from start to finish.
• You love being organized and have an eye for details.
• You place value on being a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit.
• You'd describe yourself as positive, passionate about fashion, high energy, and eager to learn.
• You're excited to increase brand exposure in your personal market.
• You're able to work a retail schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays (40n hour work week).
• Comfortable working with/using a ladder and lifting a maximum of 50lbs.

Leap Assets

• Career growth opportunities
• Exceptional employee discount on product
• Continued education (e-learning and training)
• Medical, vision and dental insurance, 401(K)

In order to achieve our mission, we need to work hard to create a diverse community of Leapers to support the brand and customers we serve and help us all grow and thrive individually and as a team. Our differences make our organization special and are paramount to our culture. Your age, skin color, beliefs, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, parental status, vet status, gender identity are valued.

Leap Powered Brands:Ring Concierge, Frank and Oak, Naadam, Something Navy, GoodLife, Mark Welden, UpWest, Public Rec, Vincero, Yoga Democracy, KES, Aurate, Little Word Project and many more.

Leap develops and operates modern physical retail stores for emerging brands. Via the Leap platform, brands rapidly deploy efficient, modern stores that work in concert with their e-commerce customer experiences. Brand stores powered by Leap deliver outstanding customer experience and powerful insights that enable emerging brands to grow and innovate more quickly and more profitably, with significantly. We're excited by the opportunity to reinvent retail for the next generation of leading brands and consumers.

We're searching for a dynamic and entrepreneurial Market Manager to oversee our emerging Connecticut Market.The Market Manager plays an integral role in curating the foundation for ourbrick-and-mortar business and acting as liaison between our brand and our customers. Being the face of Leap, our team will have an immediate and direct impact on the success of the business and brand awareness in our home market. Our team not only provides an exceptional shopping experience but treats their store with a sense of pride and ownership.

As a Market Manager, you will help build out this exciting new retail model for Leap, while gainingfirsthandexposure to a few exciting and prominent brands. You will take pride and ownership in being part of the best team and know that you are an integral part in shaping the next frontier ofbrick-and-mortarretail.

What You’ll Do

• Directly manage theastorelocation and oversee the emerging Connecticut Market.
• Take pride in demonstrating a World Class work ethic.
• Be a trustworthy leader who guides with integrity at all times and continually acts in the best interest of the brand and the customer.
• Create a nurturing work environment filled with people who respect one another and who enjoy building a sense of community.
• Manage ahigh-volumebusiness that is transaction and operations focused, ensuring the team'sabilityto multitask, shipmentprocessing andetc.
• Build out and approve staffing schedules for teams.
• Demonstrate sales leadership by playing an active role in sellingenvironment.
• Ensure presentation of all displays, fixtures and visuals are reflective directives.
• Identify and communicate any product concerns and inventory insights for Area. 
• Ensure teams are able to properly process shipments in a timely manner.
• Monitor the movement of all inventory and ensure that staff adheres to all Shipping/Receiving policies and procedures, and meet inventory shrink requirements.
• Liaise directly with the Retail Operations team to manage and react to potential changes with leasing calendar, brand rotation, etc., to keep up the flow of operations between brands.
• Build and maintain effective communication with members of corporate office and other stores.
• Ensure the selling floor is consistently neat, clean, organized and reflects standards set forth by visual initiatives.
• Ensure employees image and grooming standards are adhered to at all times, reflective of the brand vibe and image.

Our Ideal Candidate

• You take pride in being smart, fun, andself-motivated.
• You have 4+ years of big box or high volume retail management experience.
• You're excited to work for an emerging brand and about contributing to the company’s growth.
• You have sharp analytical skills, including basic retail math, understanding of capacity levels, calculating inventory on-hands, tracking sales throughout your shift, etc.
• You’re comfortable using technology to perform all job functions including sales reporting, communication between stores and HQ offices, managing inventory, and corresponding with customers.
• You're experienced with customers and motivated to help them through the store experience from start to finish.
• You love being organized and have an eye for details.
• You place value on being a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit.
• You'd describe yourself as positive, passionate about fashion, high energy, and eager to learn.
• You're excited to increase brand exposure in your personal market.
• You're able to work a retail schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays (40n hour work week).
• Comfortable working with/using a ladder and lifting a maximum of 50lbs.

Leap Assets

• Career growth opportunities
• Exceptional employee discount on product
• Continued education (e-learning and training)
• Medical, vision and dental insurance, 401(K)

In order to achieve our mission, we need to work hard to create a diverse community of Leapers to support the brand and customers we serve and help us all grow and thrive individually and as a team. Our differences make our organization special and are paramount to our culture. Your age, skin color, beliefs, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, parental status, vet status, gender identity are valued.

About Leap
Leap is building the world's largest network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems and scale.  The Leap Platform enables brands to deploy stores that work in concert with ecommerce more rapidly and at significantly reduced cost and risk.  Brand stores powered by Leap bring modern brands to life with compelling, immersive customer experience and data driven operations.  At Leap, our diverse, growing team is excited by the opportunity to power the next generation of leading consumer brands with a vibrant presence in local communities throughout the country.  We're one of the fastest growing companies in the retail/ecommerce space - since launch we've powered stores for dozens of brands, and we're adding more brands and stores each week.

Our brand customers are modern brands who lead or aspire to lead their categories today and tomorrow, and *outstanding* people are literally at the core of our product.  Our organization is composed of a diverse range of talented individuals and teams.  With functions like Real Estate, Store Design & Development, Retail Operations, Marketing, Engineering, Product Management and Data Science, we're a truly unique company and our shared ambitions and core values tightly align and drive us to succeed. 

Our staff are what make our organization so special and honoring our culture and values as we hire, onboard, engage, develop and support our teams is paramount.

Come take thisleapwith us. Your ideas, thinking, and voice are wanted.

Mission for the position
As engineering manager for infrastucture, you’ll be a manager, teammate, and leader to the software developers who report to you. You’ll provide 1:1s, technical direction, and you’ll participate in coding-related work. Since we’re a small team, this includes architecture and code, but your real mission is to build a great team and provide professional leadership to them.

Key responsibilities
You'll work closely with product and fellow engineering leaders to architect and execute the Leap platform. As an software engineering domain expert, your role will be to collaborate with product, engineering, and analytics teams to identify our opportunities to create value for brands and/or for our internal teams. You’ll hire software engineers to accomplish these goals, devise technical plans, and act as a teammate to your reports, participating in the development of our software platform.

What you'll do:

• Hire and manage a world-class team of software engineers
• Develop real-world solutions to practical challenges
• Collaborate with our app and product teams to maintain robust, secure, tested software stacks
• Drive and participate in clear, consistent code review practices, using your experience to help grow a great engineering team
• Have fun and work with a scrappy, optimistic, energetic startup team
• Use state-of-the-art technology and programming tools
• Collaborate on the roll-out of internal workflows and procedures, prioritizing automation  
• Be encouraging, supportive, kind, fun, sensitive, honest, a great teacher, and above all, a great student

You have: 

• Significant programming experience writing code in Python/Ruby or similar language 
• Experience working among product management and product development teams
• Experience with infrastructure related projects and building out teams and scalability
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience working under clear product/operational priorities
• A deep commitment to testing and automation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Curiosity, energy, and a sense of humor

In your first month, you'll:

• Go to our stores, ask questions, try on products, buy products, return products, and experience being a customer first-hand
• Participate in scoping and design sessions for our technology platform
• Onboard as an engineer and learn our stack
• Communicate constantly with an encouraging, supportive team

Your success will be measured by:

• As a leader, your ability to influence and guide people throughout the company (in technology and beyond)
• As a manager, your ability to hire and grow your team and reports

However you identify, whatever your path to get here; Leap celebrates diversity and is committed to maintaining a safe, rewarding and inclusive environment where Leapers thrive individually and as a team. 

In order to achieve our mission, building the world's largest network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems and scale; we need to work hard to foster a diverse community to support the brands and customers we serve. These aren't just words, this is who we are. We know that our differences are what make our organization special and are paramount to our culture. Your age, skin color, beliefs, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, parental status, vet status, gender identity are valued.

About Leap:

Leap is building the world's largest network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems, and scale.  The Leap Platform enables brands to deploy stores that work in concert with ecommerce more rapidly and at significantly reduced cost and risk.  Brand stores powered by Leap bring modern brands to life with compelling, immersive customer experience and data driven operations.  At Leap, our diverse, growing team is excited by the opportunity to power the next generation of leading consumer brands with a vibrant presence in local communities throughout the country.  We're one of the fastest growing companies in the retail/ecommerce space - since launch we've powered stores for dozens of brands, and we're adding more brands and stores each week.

Our brand customers are modern brands who lead or aspire to lead their categories today and tomorrow, and *outstanding* people are literally at the core of our product.  Our organization is composed of a diverse range of talented individuals and teams.  With functions like Real Estate, Store Design & Development, Retail Operations, Marketing, Engineering, Product Management and Data Science, we're a truly unique company and our shared ambitions and core values tightly align and drive us to succeed.

Our staff are what make our organization so special and honoring our culture and values as we hire, onboard, engage, develop and support our teams is paramount.

Come take this leap with us. Your ideas, thinking, and voice are wanted.

Mission for the position:

As an engineering leader and senior leader of the function, you’ll build and manage our core engineering teams. You’ll bring world-class expertise, practices, and tools to an already high-caliber team. You’ll help define and promulgate high standards and expectations for our software engineers, infrastructure engineers, and other members of our technical staff. And you’ll work closely with your own team of fellow executives to steer and manage our enterprise as a whole.

In this role, you have the technical expertise to collaborate and direct software engineering initiatives. Your principal responsibility, however, is to hire, manage, and set up the engineering organization for success at a senior leadership level. You’ll drive the delivery of our product development and will coordinate across departments on a day-to-day basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Hire and cultivate a growing team of engineers across software, test, and infrastructure
• Build and strengthen our engineering management practices
• Drive goals and OKRs on a quarterly basis 
• Define and communicate an engineering vision for the next several quarters of development
• Define and implement the software development lifecycle
• Be encouraging, supportive, kind, fun, sensitive, honest, a great teacher, and above all, a great student

Competencies for Success:

• 10 years+ full-time engineering work experience
• Experience hiring and managing engineering managers and and directors
• Experience with modern cloud computing deployment strategies
• Experience with modern ML frameworks and deployment frameworks
• Deep expertise in conventional software development processes, like environment promotion, version control, and automated testing
• Almost compulsive need to organize and clarify 
• Humility and high aptitude for learning and self-improvement
• High level of comfort working along a dynamic and evolving roadmap
• Innately curious, wants to understand all parts of Leap’s business, encourages innovation and creative problem solving with others

Outcomes & measures of success:

• Building out a functionally complete engineering organization, including hiring goals
• Accountability to department level SLOs and OKRs 
• The continuous delivery of high visibility capabilities and superpowers for our platform

However you identify, whatever your path to get here; Leap celebrates diversity and is committed to maintaining a safe, rewarding and inclusive environment where Leapers thrive individually and as a team. 

In order to achieve our mission, building the world's largest network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems and scale; we need to work hard to foster a diverse community to support the brands and customers we serve. These aren't just words, this is who we are. We know that our differences are what make our organization special and are paramount to our culture. Your age, skin color, beliefs, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, parental status, vet status, gender identity are valued.