Food52 is a next-generation cooking and home company, named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, with a monthly reach of more than 30 million people. The digital hub challenges the models of traditional media and retailers, combining content, commerce, and community around the belief that the kitchen is the heart of the home and that food is the center of a well-lived life. The Food52 family of brands includes the lighting and lifestyle goods company Schoolhouse and the heritage mid-century, Scandinavian-inspired home brand Dansk.

Schoolhouse is a lighting and lifestyle goods company dedicated to the preservation of American manufacturing, thoughtful living, and purposeful design. From iconic lighting to one-of-a-kind homewares, our mission is to provide a new generation of heirlooms that inspire people to create unique, meaningful spaces in which to live and work.

Dansk is an inspired home brand created in 1954 by Ted and Martha Nierenberg to bring the elegant simplicity and natural materials of Scandinavian design to the American market at reasonable prices. Dansk’s clean, considered designs for the kitchen, table and home helped define a new era of home goods. The mission of the Dansk brand is to preserve Dansk’s heritage, revive many of the exceptional designs from its archives, and collaborate with leading designers around the world to create new products that will someday be passed through generations.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The VP, Engineering - Data Platform and ERP at FSD is responsible for all aspects of our internal information systems including our ERP system (currently SAP), our data warehouse (BigQuery), and all of the integrations that bring our systems together. This role is deeply knowledgeable around how data flows from a point of purchase into the fulfillment process, and how to make that process observable for various teams throughout the organization to best operate their respective parts of the business through data and reporting. This role partners with the CTO on delivering proper architecture for the future of all brands at FSD and is constantly taking steps to architect and achieve that future, leading the strategic planning and execution on automation and optimization of our process flows from when an order is received to when a customer gets their shipment, and how reporting ensures visibility throughout that process.

The VP, Engineering - Data Platform and ERP is highly experienced at optimizing ERP systems for a retail business, and brings a deep understanding and best practices around how the fulfillment and accounting processes of an e-commerce business, and understands the delivery of complex customer orders at scale.

This role collaborates directly with the CTO and VP of Engineering (Product) on the interoperability of our consumer experience and our fulfillment technology, and constantly striving to improve our process. You will collaborate with the CTO on the ERP and Data roadmap, and will lead the charge around procurement of new technologies to best optimize our back of house infrastructure. You are passionate about optimizing your teams’ work to ensure there are minimal bottlenecks or critical points of failure, communicating successes and challenges early and often. You will set the example for process improvement, cross functional stakeholder management, and executive communication.

** This is a hybrid role with the expectation to work out of our Portland, OR office Tuesday through Thursday.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own and maintain the processes and development around our ERP (enterprise resource planning) system.
• Manage the team of ERP specialists, and work closely to learn from the long context across all three of our brands, and develop a best in class solution for the future of our retail business.
• Manage the team of FTE and contract data engineers to own and maintain the data platform, in collaboration with stakeholder analysts to own and build out our ETL tools and create data marts for various teams.
• Own (in collaboration with the CTO) the Data and ERP roadmaps, from working with stakeholders on discovery to execution and delivery
• Own the functional areas in between our web stack and the ERP system, including AWS Lambda functions that pass data back and forth to the ERP.
• Accountable for all platform architectural decisions alongside other engineering stakeholders (CTO and product engineering team), with a focus on decision making that contributes to stakeholder needs and the overall business strategy and an eye for scale.
• Working with 3PL partners and dropshippers on best practices and processes to ensure a scalable system is maintained.
• Focuses on developing and refactoring the processes to “debug” their organization, especially communicating bottlenecks that result in critical dependencies both on team members and technologies.
• Maintains a high level of data integrity and understands the flow of data from Purchase Order to Fulfillment to Revenue Recognition, working closely with data teams to maintain the integrity of the data within the systems.
• Keeps the team on track and aligned with the CTO vision for the team, ensuring that deliverables and work streams are in line with that vision
• Communicates status and delivery updates to stakeholders early and often, including roadblocks and challenges.
• Ensures delivery of high quality documentation of every system and scalability of platforms across all brands.
• Jumps in to help unblock team members when needed by providing clear direction alongside established team practices, and provides clear end-to-end instruction on the “how” when needed, especially on larger projects.
• Provides clear career development feedback of team members, including promotion and performance improvement recommendations, and participates in team calibrations to establish performance guidelines.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years’ experience managing and maintaining information systems, including retail ERP and data warehouse platforms.
• 6+ years experience in ERP implementations and digital transformations, retail product management, and technical architecture.
• 5+ years working in a retail sales consumer goods environment
• 5+ years working with data ETLs and business intelligence platforms
• 3+ years managing ERP and/or data engineers
• 3+ years managing teams focused on multiple aspects of the platform infrastructure, including ERP and reporting outputs.
• 3+ years experience with BigQuery, Snowflake or similar
• 3+ years of experience in SAP
• 3+ years owning and delivering on a technical roadmap, with a relentless focus on eliminating process bottlenecks for scale.
• Experience leading a major ERP migration for a retail brand
• Strong SQL query writing ability
• Experience building middleware (python, javascript, or similar) to communicate between systems
• Ability to collaborate with leadership at all levels from the CEO to stakeholders across all business functions to best understand needs and build for them in order to optimize the roadmap.
• Strong communication skills, able to share technical updates to stakeholders and transform stakeholder needs into technical requirements.
• Ability to handle schedules and priorities and communicate appropriately about them
• Bonus points:
  • Experience with SAP By Design a plus
  • Experience with ERP systems in a manufacturing business a plus

COMPENSATION

This is an exempt role with a hiring range of $275,000 - $325,000 per year.

WORKING AT FOOD52, SCHOOLHOUSE & DANSK

We are committed to providing our team with a competitive benefits package. Some of our benefits for include:

• Up to 97.5% funded health benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
• Unlimited paid time off
• Monthly fitness reimbursement
• Citibike (NYC) or BikeTown (PDX) company-sponsored annual membership
• Generous employee discount across our brand portfolio
• 401K
• FSA / HSA

EEO STATEMENT

Food52 is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to all team members. We evaluate candidates without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics as required by law and as a matter of our company values.