Job Description
What if technology could unlock the next era of creativity, sustainability, and product innovation?
At H&M Tech, this role shapes the technology direction across one of the company’s most business-critical areas: Product Creation. As a senior technology leadership role, it holds responsibility for influencing enterprise direction, leading through senior leaders, and driving transformation across platforms, vendors, data flows, and engineering organizations.
Strategic & Delivery Leadership
Leading the delivery of digital product creation solutions, 3D design tools, and connected creation workflows, ensuring seamless integration across design, buying, and production.
Driving the implementation of scalable product data management capabilities, enabling accurate, timely, and automated product information across global teams and systems.
Translate tech strategy and business objectives into actionable plans and take overall accountability for RUN and Tech Operations within the area.
Oversee the delivery structure across products, services, and programs to ensure stable, scalable, and cost-efficient tech solutions.
Manage dependencies, resources, and capacity to enable effective roadmap execution and support business outcomes.
Drive adoption of secure, robust, and scalable technologies and promote continuous improvement across the area.
Partner with Area Business Manager and business counterparts to align priorities and synchronize delivery.
Contribute to portfolio planning to ensure strategic alignment with enterprise architecture and tech strategy.
Financial Accountability
Own and manage the area’s tech budget, ensuring efficient and transparent allocation and spending.
Maintain budget planning and implementation in alignment with workforce plans.
Optimize resource utilization while upholding strong financial accountability.
Architecture & Development
Ensure solution architecture aligns with target architecture and collaborate with the CTO Office on strategic direction.
Promote effective use of tools, methodologies, engineering standards, technical quality, operational resilience, and modern engineering practices.
Operational Excellence
Oversee operational stability and performance, ensuring secure and resilient operations aligned with strategic goals.
Monitor and report technical KPIs such as uptime, compliance, and support.
Lead proactive risk management, including incident handling and mitigation planning.
Drive innovation, simplification, and reduction of technical debt.
Engage internal teams and external partners to support aligned and timely delivery.
People & Culture
Lead and develop engineering talent, coaching leaders and enabling technical and delivery excellence.
Cultivate a culture of innovation, collaboration, and psychological safety.
Hold formal staff responsibility, including recruitment, contribution talks, and workforce planning aligned with broader tech strategy and capability needs.
Stakeholder Engagement
Work closely with business stakeholders to coordinate cross-area dependencies and secure delivery of business outcomes.
Act as the primary technology contact within the area and manage relevant vendor and partner relationships.
This role sits at the intersection of technology, business transformation, and product creation. In close collaboration with engineering, architecture, product, design, compliance, and business stakeholders, it shapes how the future product ecosystem evolves. The role also works across teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders to align direction, delivery, and long-term outcomes.
We are looking for someone who…
Brings extensive experience leading senior technology organizations in complex enterprise environments. Has a strong understanding of how data, processes, and technology capabilities connect across the full product lifecycle, and is comfortable shaping target architecture and driving modernization across a broad technology landscape.
Creates clarity in complexity, thinks in systems rather than silos, and balances long-term strategic direction with operational reality. Brings strong understanding of enterprise architecture and delivery at scale, with the ability to drive outcomes across teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
And people who are…
Empowering and trust-based leaders who build high-performing organizations through clarity, accountability, and collaboration. Bringing an outside-in perspective, challenging established ways of working, and leading transformation that connects technology, business processes, and product creation in new and scalable ways.
Additional Information
This is a full-time position with the possibility to be based in one of our Tech locations, Stockholm or Bangalore.
We recommend applying as soon as possible, as we will review applications on an ongoing basis. Please submit your CV in English.
If this role sounds right for you, we look forward to receiving your application!
Who We Are
H&M Group is a global company of strong fashion brands and ventures. Our goal is to prove that there is no compromise between exceptional design, affordable prices, and sustainable solutions. We want to liberate fashion for the many, and our customers are at the heart of every decision we make.
We are made up of thousands of passionate and talented colleagues united by our shared culture and values. Together, we want to use our power, our scale, and our knowledge to push the fashion industry towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.
Why You'll Love Working Here
At H&M Group, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. We offer our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories and ARKET.