Head of Engineering (Search & Recommendations)

We are looking for a Head of Engineering to lead our Search & Recommendations team a mission-critical function at the heart of our customer experience. You will set the vision define the technical strategy and inspire product development teams to deliver world-class discovery experiences. 

Focused on consumer mobile and web e-commerce this role operates at huge scale: over 2.5 billion visits a year 23 million active customers and 50 million unique visitors per month. Youll partner with Product Data Science and Design to build systems that are fast relevant and reliable guiding the evolution of our discovery and customer experience platforms. 

The Details: 

• Define the technology vision and roadmap across Search Recommendations Category Navigation Product Catalogue AI Stylist and Customer Care Experience. 
• Build grow and inspire 6 product development teams and a team of 60 fostering a culture of innovation delivery and technical excellence. 
• Collaborate with senior product and business leaders to align technology priorities with company strategy and customer needs. 
• Lead the design and scaling of search and recommendations platforms ensuring speed relevance and personalisation. 
• Oversee category navigation and product catalogue systems to ensure customers can easily browse and find products at scale. 
• Partner with Data Science to embed AI-driven experiences (e.g. AI Stylist) into the shopping journey. 

We believe being together in person helps us move faster connect more deeply and achieve more as a team. Thats why our approach to working together includes spending at least 3 days a week in the office. Its a rhythm that speeds up decision-making helps ASOSers learn from each other more quickly and builds the kind of culture where people can grow create and succeed. 

Qualifications :

About You: 

• Significant experience leading engineering teams in fast-moving digital businesses. 
• Proven track record scaling search recommendations ranking or discovery systems in consumer-facing products. 
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems large-scale data pipelines information retrieval and applied ML. 
• Strong technical leadership with the ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on problem solving. 
• Excellent communicator and influencer able to build trusted relationships across Product Data and Design. 
• Passion for building diverse inclusive and high-performing teams. 

Additional Information :

BeneFITS  

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)  
• Employee sample sales  
• 25 days paid annual leave an extra celebration day for a special moment  
• Discretionary bonus scheme  
• Private medical care scheme  
• Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash or use towards other benefits 
• Opportunity for personalised learning and in-the-moment experiences that enable you to thrive and excel in your role. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time