Director of WMS Product Design and Development

HelloFresh is searching for an action-oriented servant leader for our warehouse management system (WMS) Product Design and Software Engineering functions. This leader owns the full software delivery lifecycle for HelloFresh's global warehouse fulfillment and inventory control domain — from architecture and product design through engineering execution, quality assurance, and operational reliability. You will drive a culture of product & engineering excellence, leveraging modern agentic tooling and AI-assisted workflows to increase team velocity, reduce defect escape rates, and accelerate deployment confidence.

• WMS Solution Ownership: Provide technical direction, development oversight, and performance accountability for HelloFresh's deployment of Infios's Warehouse Advantage (Körber/Highjump) WMS platform across all global locations.
• Integration Architecture & Reliability: Own WMS layer Integrations to host systems and CDC pipelines (Debezium/kafka) to Snowflake/Databricks.
• Platform Architecture: Partner/support as needed the Hosting Architecture team in the optimal sizing and performance of WMS Architecture in AWS.
• Agentic Engineering & Developer Productivity: Champion and drive adoption of agentic engineering practices across the team: automated code review tooling (e.g., AI-assisted PR analysis, static analysis agents, LLM-powered code quality gates), AI-augmented test generation and execution, and intelligent deployment pipelines. Measure and report the impact of these practices on delivery velocity and defect escape rate.
• CI/CD & Deployment Automation: Own the maturity roadmap for CI/CD pipelines. Establish automated deployment workflows with robust rollback strategies, feature flagging, environment-specific gate checks, and infrastructure-as-code practices — enabling high-confidence, low-friction releases across all WMS environments.
• Quality Engineering & Test Automation: Partner with WMS Services and Support leadership to build a world-class QA function. Drive adoption of automated regression suites, AI-assisted edge case generation, and contract testing for integrations. Push teams beyond happy-path coverage toward comprehensive scenario validation, including automated performance and load testing for peak fulfillment periods.
• Engineering Metrics & Continuous Improvement: Establish DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time for change, change failure rate, and mean time to restore) as the foundation of engineering health reporting for the WMS organization. Set baselines, publish improvement targets, and use metric trends to identify bottlenecks, prioritize tooling and process investments, and communicate engineering performance to senior leadership.
• Technical Roadmap & Architecture Governance: Partner with peers and senior leadership on architectural decision-making for WMS platform evolution, integration patterns, and technology transitions. Champion the use of structured design reviews to maintain coherent, scalable technical direction. Lead evaluations to refactor or replace legacy systems, including risk mitigation and transition planning.
• Vendor & Capacity Management: Work with department leadership to source and partner with 3rd-party vendors to augment internal engineering capacity and expertise. Maintain vendor performance accountability and ensure structured knowledge transfer to build durable internal capability.
• People Leadership & Talent Development: Coach, develop, and retain high-performing engineers, product managers, and team leads. Partner with HR and Talent Acquisition to build organizational depth — playing an active role in recruiting, onboarding, and career development.
• International Standardization/ Release Consolidation: Partner with departmental leadership, peer domains, and executive leadership to own the long term roadmap for product consolidation to a single application release version administered globally.
• Cross-functional Leadership: Serve on both the Fulfillment Technology and overall Automation & Technology leadership teams, reinforcing HelloFresh DNA values, establishing KPIs, and prioritizing strategic initiatives at a departmental level.

• 10+ years of warehouse management system (WMS) software engineering and implementation experience with a tier-one WMS in an RF-based distribution, manufacturing, or e-commerce fulfillment environment.
• 3+ years of direct hands-on experience with Infios's Warehouse Advantage (Körber/Highjump) WMS platform.
• Strong leadership and management skills, with experience leading engineering and product teams.
• Deep understanding of modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, test automation, and AI-assisted development.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and data pipelines (Kafka, Debezium, Snowflake, Databricks).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• This location-flexible position can be physically based in any of our North America corporate offices or fulfillment centers with a hybrid working model, but must be flexible with work hour scheduling as teams and solutions are dispersed globally.