Kering Front Technical Lead
- Location
- Seniority
- Lead
- Department
- E-Commerce, Digital & Data Analytics
- Industry
- Fashion, Apparel & Leather Goods
- Posted
- Apr 24, 2026
About Kering
Kering is a global luxury group that brings together a portfolio of creative Houses — including Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen — across leather goods, ready‑to‑wear, jewelry, eyewear and beauty. The group emphasizes creative excellence, sustainability and cultural engagement and invests in digital platforms that support its Maisons' identity and commercial ambitions.
Kering — Front Technical Lead in Paris. Lead front‑end architecture and performance for Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga and McQueen.
Role & Responsibilities
- Define, document and evangelise front‑end architecture principles, framework choices and component libraries across multiple brand teams.
- Co‑design front‑end strategy with architects, product managers and the CORE Platform Tech Lead to ensure coherent, scalable solutions.
- Review pull requests and enforce engineering best practices related to performance, accessibility, testing and CI/CD quality gates.
- Drive adoption and governance of the shared design system and reusable UI components across brands and products.
- Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Designers and Back‑end Engineers to deliver coherent, testable features with excellent UX.
- Select and operate front‑end observability and performance tooling; monitor and optimise load time and runtime behaviour.
- Champion automated testing (unit, E2E, visual regression) and track key web‑performance and quality KPIs (LCP, CLS, error rate).
Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of professional front‑end development experience, including 1–2 years as a front‑end lead or technical lead.
- Fluency in English and French, both written and spoken.
- Proven experience designing scalable front‑end architectures and organising shared component reuse across teams.
- Demonstrable expertise in web performance optimisation, SEO considerations and accessibility standards.
- Strong communicator with the ability to lead by influence in matrixed, cross‑functional organisations.
Skills
Experience
At least five years of front‑end development experience with 1–2 years in a lead or technical lead capacity, preferably within multi‑brand or large e‑commerce organisations. Experience delivering Next.js‑based projects, implementing shared component systems and improving web performance metrics is expected.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Human‑Computer Interaction, or equivalent professional experience.
Workplace
This position is based in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
Culture
The organisation fosters a creativity‑led, collaborative culture that combines luxury brand sensibility with engineering excellence. Teams operate in a multi‑brand, fast‑moving environment where sustainability, inclusion and cross‑disciplinary collaboration are emphasised.
About Cerulean
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