Job Description

Job Description

A growing number of businesses are increasingly relying on Emerging Technologies like Edge computing, IoT/Sensor Networks, Wearables, Voice and Vision recognition and AR/VR-based solutions. When coupled with Cloud integrations and AI/ML Data Analytics capabilities, these solutions can enable new, data-driven insights to help uncover new growth paths. Kimberly-Clark continues to mature its Digital Technology Solutions (DTS) organization, which is expanding the Digital Innovation & Smart Products team to help ideate, design, realize and scale these new digital product opportunities.

As a hands on Engineering Manager and Business Partner, you will have a chance to make a real impact to the business by imagining and inventing the future, co-creating it with our Global Digital Innovation Leads, while leading a small, agile team responsible for technology strategy, architecture design and engineering development. This is a critical role with direct accountability for realizing multi-horizon opportunities, infusing human-inspired digital innovation into the life of our market-leading brands, in service of our consumers, customers and the business.

The right person for this role is proactive with stakeholders, a self-starter who can work under broad direction, and is passionate about delivering world-class, first-of-a-kind solutions that split existing and emerging capabilities to bring tangible value. This individual also has the experience and technical background consistent with agile delivery of consumer-facing hybrid (hardware and software) cutting-edge digital solutions, including iterative design and rapid prototyping to support MVP, Pilot and Launch activities.

Kimberly-Clark has an amazing opportunity and DTS is poised to deliver compelling digital services, products and solutions. This role will have substantial influence in this endeavor. If you are excited to make a difference applying cutting-edge technologies to solve real business challenges and add value to a global, market-leading organization, please come join us!

Scope/Categories

Role will report to the Global Director, Digital Innovation & Smart Products. This position has direct reports, and oversight on external resources.

Travel may include approximately 15% of work time.

Key Interfaces

Internal: Global and Regional R&E Leaders, Technical Strategists and Product Development SMEs, Consumer Brand teams; DTS Digital Innovation Leads, BPs, Project Managers, Enterprise & Solution Architects, Functional Engineers, Enterprise Data Management teams, Platform teams, Integration CoE, Infrastructure and CS&A teams, and other Leaders.

External: Contractors, Consulting Partners, 3rd Party service providers, Startups, Academia.

Key Responsibilities

• Brings hands-on technical and product management expertise in leadership of Consumer-facing technology solutions, leveraging emerging tech and partners.
• Drives a small, agile team through solution design and iterative execution, from conceptual stages through delivery/launch.
• Ensures that select Innovation MVPs (Minimal Viable Products) can be taken through the necessary steps to become scalable, supportable managed solutions.
• Demonstrates thought leadership in delivering tangible Digital Innovation outcomes and becomes a trusted advisor on Consumer-facing digital ecosystem solutions.
• Leads complex workstreams, ensuring staged and timely delivery including solution design, architecture, development and operational support.
• Ensures the team taps into existing best practices, and/or introduce industry-leading techniques, technologies and architectures as needed.
• Leads with a deep understanding of the full technology stack, working with emerging and traditional technologies, adjusting between the art of the possible and the requirements to adhere to privacy and security protection guidelines.
• Takes ownership of solution design & development, partnering with the Digital Innovation Leads and leading the technical team on requirements gathering, concepts generation, detailed design, verification testing, cross-functional reviews and production release.
• Develops & sustains close partnerships with Global R&D and Business SMEs to fully understand demands/future opportunities, evaluating how to engage for value creation.
• Acts as a disruptive change agent fluidly moving back & forth between transformation initiatives and day-to-day business as usual, to deliver the optimal mix of innovation.
• Listens for reflection and partners with business to deliver outcomes.
• Establishes day-to-day operational support and long-term strategy for the Team.
• Works with stakeholders and peers to negotiate project plans, time frames and trade-offs while ensuring all stakeholder expectations are in-sync.
• Develops staff with the needed functional and technical skills.
• Demonstrates deep learning agility and promotes a learning culture. Acts and influences as a people leader across the organization.
• Takes personal accountability for self-development, while building and developing talent.
• Manages supplier management activities (e.g. RFPs, partner selection, SoW, POs, etc.)
• Ensures overall service delivery support operations including audits, change, incident, problem and configuration management, as needed to support the Portfolio.
• Prepares reports and proactive updates Leaders / Stakeholders on relevant metrics.
• Prepares and manages departmental budget and forecast plans (budget vs. actuals, etc.)
  
Required Qualifications

And Experiences

• B.S., B. A. degree. Master’s degree in a related field is preferred but not required.
• 7-10 years of equivalent experience in information technology leading remote, global teams and a minimum of 3-5 years with Emerging Tech. (IoT, Voice, AR/VR, AI/ML, etc.).
• 5 years of hands-on experience in designing and developing end-to-end digital solutions.
• Proven experience with various architectural design patterns including Microservices, API's, event-driven data flows, serverless, containers, connectivity, etc.
• Rapid prototype development and familiarity with iterative prototyping techniques.
• Proven experience with industry standards and approaches to designing and building secure digital products.
• Deep understanding of full tech stacks (Java, JavaScript, Swift, Python, React, Node.js, RESTful services, GraphQL, Message brokers (MQTT), JSON, HTML/HTML5, CSS, etc.).
• Proven experience designing, developing and supporting solutions based on cloud architectures, e.g. AWS, Azur, IoT Hub, Serverless computing (e.g. AWS Lambda, Azure Functions), compute (e.g. Kubernetes containers), Cloud-based databases (e.g. Azure database), and raw storage (e.g. storage blobs, S3, etc.).
• Proven experience with UI/UX, Mobile front-end and backend logical components of a digital ecosystem, including design patterns for scalability and resiliency.
• Proven experience working with Agile and Product teams (e.g. epics, stories, sprints, backlog management, product owners, product engineers, scrum master, etc.).
• Background in dealing with hardware & software development teams and business owners; comfortable interfacing directly with and influencing SMEs.
• Direct experience with Outsourcing and Consulting/Contract partners.
• Demonstrated skills in application delivery, client relationship management, strong sense of urgency in delivering results, business knowledge, intuition and judgment, high cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity, strong communication/collaboration.
• Proficient in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading multi-cultural and globally dispersed teams, including contractors.
• Experience in a matrix organization, influencing stakeholders in consultative mode and working proactively with Business and IT peers globally.
  
Kimberly-Clark and its well-known global brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. Every day, 1.3 billion people - nearly a quarter of the world's population - trust K-C brands and the solutions they provide to enhance their health, hygiene, and well-being. With brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, and Depend, Kimberly-Clark holds No.1 or No. 2 share positions in more than 80 countries. With more than 140 years of history of innovation, we believe in recruiting the best people and empowering them do their best work. If fresh thinking and a passion to win inspire you, come Unleash Your Power at Kimberly-Clark.

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

This position may require a post-offer/pre-hire Physical Abilities Test (PAT) to confirm that individuals are able to perform the essential functions of the job.

K-C requires that an employee have authorization to work in the country in which the role is based. In the event an applicant does not have current work authorization, K-C will determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sponsor an individual for work authorization. However, based on immigration requirements, not all roles are suitable for sponsorship. This position is subject to drug and alcohol testing, including pre-employment testing.

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

K-C will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role. The benefits provided will be per the terms of K-C’s applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will be decided in K-C’s sole discretion.

Primary Location

USA-GA-Atlanta-Roswell

Additional Locations

USA-WI-Neenah

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time