Overview:
Software/Product Engineering Manager – Digital Commerce Intelligence (Nova)
At PepsiCo’s International dCommerce team, we are shaping the future of Digital Commerce by building innovative products and capabilities powered by emerging technologies. Our mission is to accelerate business growth, regain market share, and create outstanding digital experiences for consumers across global markets.
While closely connected to the wider PepsiCo ecosystem, the dCommerce team operates with a strong start-up mindset: entrepreneurial, fast-moving, and impact driven. Here, you will have the opportunity to influence strategic decisions, build products from the ground up, and see your work make a tangible difference at scale.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Software/ Product Engineering Manager to lead the evolution of Nova, our flagship Digital Shelf Intelligence product. Nova brings together a rich ecosystem of Digital Commerce signals — spanning sales performance, digital shelf analytics, performance marketing, and more — enabling commercial teams to identify high-impact actions, win in digital channels, and delight consumers.
Having successfully completed our first foundational year, Nova is entering an exciting growth phase. This role offers a rare opportunity to scale an internally incubated product from early development into a global cornerstone of PepsiCo’s Digital Commerce strategy.
You will shape the engineering team, define the technical architecture, and determine how and when to evolve from BI-led solutions into a fully end-to-end application. Partnering closely with Product Management, you will translate vision into reality while balancing innovation, scalability, and delivery.
Responsibilities:
Product Delivery & Execution
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Partner with the Product Manager to translate product vision into a clear and achievable technical roadmap
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Own the end-to-end delivery of Nova, from data ingestion and modelling to user-facing features
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Define delivery cadence, rituals, and ways of working for a newly formed, multi-disciplinary squad (data engineers, BI engineers, data scientists, and software engineers)
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Balance short-term feature delivery with long-term investments in architecture and platform foundations
Technical Leadership
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Set the technical direction for Nova, collaborating with Data and Solution Architects on key design decisions
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Evaluate and recommend the platform evolution strategy, including the transition from Power BI to custom-built applications
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Ensure technical choices support the long-term product vision, including automation, “next best action” capabilities, and cross-functional integrations
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Define how Nova’s technology stack integrates with the broader PepsiCo Digital Commerce and enterprise ecosystem
Engineering Excellence
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Establish and embed engineering best practices across coding standards, data modelling, testing, CI/CD, documentation, and release management
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Ensure data pipelines, models, and applications are designed for scalability, reliability, and performance
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Promote reuse of existing platforms and components across PepsiCo, reducing duplication and increasing efficiency
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Actively manage technical debt, balancing speed to market with long-term platform health
Talent & Team Development
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Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing, multi-disciplinary engineering team
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Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement
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Grow team capability and capacity to support ongoing product and business expansion
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
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Act as the primary technical partner to the Nova Product Manager, sharing accountability for product success
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Work closely with Data Architects, Solution Architects, BI and Data Engineering leaders to ensure alignment and shared standards
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Collaborate with Platform and Infrastructure teams to address scalability and operational needs
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Engage with business stakeholders to understand needs, showcase progress, and validate technical feasibility
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Maintain strong collaboration with US-based Product and Engineering counterparts, sharing knowledge while respecting local autonomy
Qualifications:
What You Bring
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10+ years of experience in software or product engineering, including 3+ years leading distributed, multi-disciplinary teams across multiple time zones
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Proven experience leading engineering teams through early-stage product development or initial scaling phases
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Strong track record of building teams from scratch, including role definition, hiring, and culture-setting
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Experience working across data engineering, analytics, data science, and software development disciplines
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Solid software engineering foundation with the ability to review code, assess architectures, and guide frontend and backend decisions
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Experience with Elixir or comparable functional programming languages
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Familiarity with modern data platforms and tooling (e.g., Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Azure, AWS) sufficient to lead data engineers effectively
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Understanding of BI tools and their limitations, plus exposure to data science and machine learning integrations
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Experience establishing or significantly improving engineering practices in growing or maturing environments
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Strong coaching and mentoring capabilities with a passion for developing engineering talent
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Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with Product, Architecture, BI, DevOps, and business stakeholders
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Comfort operating in environments with ambiguity and evolving scope
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Strong prioritization skills, balancing long-term scalability with short-term delivery
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Ability to adapt leadership and communication style to different audiences
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Experience in Retail or e-Commerce is a strong plus
What makes us different?
Hybrid work model: combination of remote and collaborative office experience to enable innovation- Entrepreneurial environment in leading international company
- Professional growth possibilities & learning opportunities
- Variety of benefits to support your physical, emotional and financial wellbeing
- Volunteering opportunities to help external communities
About PepsiCo
We believe that culture should be at the cornerstone of everything we do at PepsiCo. We are agile, innovative and not afraid of failure. We want our team to come to work every day excited to explore new ways to bring enjoyment, refreshment and fun to the world.
PepsiCo Positive (pep+) is the future of our organization – a strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create growth and value by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for the planet and people.
So, if you’re ready to be a part of a playground for those who think big, we’d love to chat.
We encourage the diversity of applicants across gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief and disability
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