Manager, IT - Lands' End Outfitters (Hybrid)

Posted: Friday, 03 October 2025
Valid Thru: Sunday, 02 November 2025
Index Requested on: 10/03/2025 08:33:15
Indexed on: 10/03/2025 08:33:15

Location: Dodgeville, WI, 53533, US

Industry: Advertising and Public Relations
Occupational Category: 49-0000.00 - Installation, Maintenance, and Repair
Type of Employment: FULL_TIME

Lands End Inc is hiring!

Description:

*This is a hybrid role with three weeks per month onsite (Mon – Thurs). The fourth week is fully remote.

The IT Manager for the LEO (Business to Business) division is critical in ensuring the stability, performance, and continuous improvement of our customer-facing e-commerce platform and enterprise-specific sites. The ideal candidate will bring a strong operational lens, a passion for service excellence, and a collaborative leadership style to support our business clients and internal teams.

Operational Excellence & SLA Management

  • Ensure all systems within the LEO platform meet or exceed defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
  • Monitor system performance and proactively address issues to minimize incidents and downtime.
  • Implement and maintain robust controls to ensure system integrity, security, and compliance.

Customer-Facing Platform Support

  • Oversee the technical operations of our B2B e-commerce platform, ensuring a seamless and reliable customer experience.
  • Support enterprise-specific site functionality tailored to individual client needs.

Team Leadership & Delivery Oversight

  • Lead the Applications Delivery Team, including both employees and contractors, to execute the technical roadmap.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of application enhancements and support services.

Continuous Improvement & Incident Reduction

  • Drive initiatives to reduce the volume and severity of technical incidents.
  • Analyze trends and root causes to implement long-term solutions.

Strategic Contribution

  • Contribute to the evolution and potential consolidation of e-commerce platforms across the enterprise.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to align technology initiatives with business goals.
  • Drive SRE mindset in enabling support with product teams across the e-commerce platforms

Skills

  • Proven leadership experience with hybrid teams (employees and contractors, onshore and offshore).
  • Strong understanding of e-commerce platforms, retail space and enterprise system architecture.
  • Experience with Agile methodology for Product delivery.
  • Demonstrated success in SLA management, incident reduction and SRE practices.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Highly engaged leadership style with a focus on team empowerment and engagement.
  • Experience in B2B environments and customer-facing technology platforms.
  • Familiarity with ITIL or other service management frameworks.
  • Knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure and modern DevOps practices.
  • Balances team performance, resource allocation, and stakeholder expectations.

    Additional desirable skills

    • Knowledge with e-commerce platforms like SAP Commerce Cloud, Salesforce, AWS, Integration suites

    Leadership Responsibilities

    • Lead and manage a team of employees & contractors, including recruitment and onboarding
    • Provide guidance, support, constructive feedback and mentorship to team members.
    • Foster a collaborative and positive work environment.
    • Conduct regular performance evaluations, identify and address performance issues through coaching and disciplinary actions when necessary.
    • Ensure optimal utilization of team member’s skills and expertise. Identify training needs within the team and coordinate relevant development programs, encourage continuous learning and skill development among team members.
    • Address conflicts or issues within the team promptly and effectively.
    • Manage team resources, including workload distribution and project assignments.
    • Collaborate with leadership to establish team goals aligned with organizational objectives, and cascade these into team/individual performance goals.
    • Contribute to the development and implementation of department strategies.

    Physical Requirements

    • Ability to sit for long periods of time.

    Education & Experience Requirements

    • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; Master’s degree preferred.
    • Professional certifications are a plus.
    • 5-8 years of experience in IT operations, application support, or systems management, as well as leadership roles.
    • Experience with agile product teams.

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    Responsibilities:

    Please review the job description.

    Educational requirements:

    • high school

    Desired Skills:

    Information Technology

    Benefits:

    Please see the job description for benefits.

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