Senior Director Software Engineering

• Define and drive an AI-first engineering strategy
• Identify high-impact opportunities using:
• Data insights
• Customer behavior
• Operational metrics
• Drive adoption of:
• Generative AI
• Machine Learning
• Agentic AI
• Intelligent automation
• Enable AI-powered solutions for:
• Inventory optimization
• Labor productivity
• Personalization
• Decision intelligence

Product Support & Operational Excellence (Build + Run)

• Lead engineering teams to build, operate, and continuously improve platforms
• Ensure high availability and reliability of store-critical systems
• Define and enforce:

• Uptime targets
• Operational KPIs
• Establish strong production support model :
• On-call strategy
• Incident management
• Root cause analysis (RCA)
• Continuous improvement
• Ensure systems are built with:
• Observability (logs, metrics, traces)
• Resilience and fault tolerance

• Lead and mentor engineering managers and teams
• Drive delivery excellence using Agile and DevOps practices
• Manage:
• Resource allocation
• Prioritization
• Risk mitigation
• Collaborate across:
• Product
• Store Operations
• Supply Chain
• Executive leadership

• Evaluate and manage technology partners and vendors
• Support build vs buy decisions
• Ensure cost-effective and scalable solutions
• 15+ years engineering experience; 5+ years in leadership
• Strong experience in:
• Distributed systems
• Cloud platforms
• Modern development practices
• Experience with:
• AI/ML platforms

• AI observability
• Strong collaboration with Product:
• Discovery
• Prioritization
• Outcome-driven delivery

• Coaching and Developing Others
• Communication
• Customer Focus
• Driving for Results
• Leading Change
• Strategic Planning

In addition to a rewarding career, Sprouts offers a comprehensive program to help support you and your family.

These programs include:

• Competitive pay
• Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
• Vacation accrual plan
• Opportunities for career growth
• 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
• Flexible schedules

• 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
• Company paid life insurance
• Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!

Eligibility requirements may apply for the following benefits:

• Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
• Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
• Health Savings Account with company match
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• Company paid short-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
• Paid holidays

Get Paid Every Day!

Sprouts Farmers Market offers DailyPay - if you’re hired as an eligible employee, you’ll be able to transfer the money you’ve already earned at no extra cost, and get it the next business day, for free .

We offer DailyPay so you don’t have to wait for payday to access the money you’ve already worked for.

With DailyPay, you can see how much you’ve made every day and you can transfer your money any time before payday.

You can learn more by visiting https://www.dailypay.com/partners/sprouts-farmers-market/ .

Grow with us!

If you have a passion for inspiring people and a flair for fresh food, consider applying for a job at Sprouts!

With a focus on customer service, our neighborhood grocery stores offer high-quality, farm fresh produce, natural meats, plenty of scoop-your-own bulk goods and much more in a fun, friendly, old-fashioned farmer’s market setting.

Come grow your career in healthy living with a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and teams that pride themselves on empowering others along their journey.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work.

This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements.

Sprouts’ management reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.

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