About this role
S'more about the team
The Operations Data and Decisions Tribe at HelloFresh is responsible for driving operations planning by creating high quality, reusable data assets, data science models, and algorithmic solutions. Additionally, the tribe. This team has a direct impact on the customer experience and is constantly optimising for various Business KPIs. They build in-house products using modern technologies to handle a massive scale of transactions (>8.5 million active customers) and continuously improve the SDLC for fast flow and continuous delivery.
As a Director of Operations Planning Engineering, you will lead engineering teams (Data Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, & Analytics) and Staff Engineers across the mid-term planning domain, supporting their technical decision-making processes. Your responsibilities will include spearheading initiatives that traverse multiple teams and domains, such as those focused on network planning, demand planning, and production planning. Drawing upon your comprehensive understanding of the domain, you will own the planning architecture strategy and drive the long-term vision for how our planning systems should be integrated and scaled.
Lettuce share what this role will be responsible for
• Lead an engineering squad comprising 10-15 engineers, managing Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers across Warsaw, Berlin, & USA.
• Own the GenAI transformation — define and drive a concrete roadmap for becoming a genuinely AI-native engineering organisation: from AI-assisted development and automated incident response, to agentic workflows and LLM-powered tooling embedded in day-to-day operations.
• Own the availability and reliability of HelloFresh's planning infrastructure — drive SRE practices, incident management, SLOs/SLIs, and on-call maturity across high-throughput systems serving multiple markets.
• Set technical direction across Python, GoLang, PostgreSQL, Kafka, React, and React Native services on AWS, ensuring systems.
• Partner with Product, Operations, Marketing, and Procurement providers to align engineering priorities with business outcomes.
• Manage , coach, and develop Engineering Managers & Engineers — holding them accountable for team health, delivery, and engineering standards.
• Navigate organisational change with maturity, keeping teams focused and motivated through evolving priorities.
Sound a-peeling? Here's what we're looking for
• AI proficiency and advocacy. Hands-on familiarity with AI technologies and a demonstrable track record of championing their adoption — whether through AI-assisted development workflows, LLM-powered tooling, or driving team-wide GenAI-native ways of working.
• Deep Technical Expertise. Mastery of a broad range of technical skills relevant to Operations Planning — including planning systems, data science modeling, data engineering, database systems, distributed computing, and backend development frameworks. Hands-on familiar