Dylan Hulbert

Outcome-focused technology executive with success transforming organizations, driving high-value product decisions, and delivering positive business results focused on the customer. A strategic and agile technical leader experienced in building, mentoring, and leading high-performing, highly engaged teams.


Experience

Vice President, Digital Technology

I currently lead all engineering, technical product management, and technical operations for Starbucks’ customer-facing digital experiences, commerce and rewards platforms, retail and digital payments, customer APIs, menu services, and integrations:
  • Leading the modernization of Starbucks’ mobile ordering experience to improve speed, reliability, and overall customer satisfaction
  • Delivering a next generation, multi-channel Starbucks Rewards experience that grows revenue, affinity and relevance, and retains our best customers
  • Extending the global commerce, rewards, API, and location platform to support point-of-sale and loyalty convergence across international markets
  • Technology executive owner ensuring operational excellence and technical readiness across all seasonal product launches
February 2025 - Present

Vice President, Digital Platform Engineering

Led the platform organization supporting digital commerce, digital and physical payments, customer rewards, marketing and content, product selection and localization, and cloud engineering services:
  • Delivered Rewards integrations with Delta and Marriott for Starbucks Customers, providing strategic cross-marketing opportunities
  • Implemented localized Digital Menu Board pilot, enabling precision pricing, dynamic content, and day-part menu selection, and scaling to Starbucks 10000 company owned stores
  • Led the introduction of a product-focused Digital Operating Model and reorganized Platform Engineering to improve accountability, product alignment, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Chosen as executive sponsor and lead for Starbucks Future Engineering, an initiative to improve speed to value 4X across all aspects of our product engineering organization
October 2023 - February 2025

Chief Technology Officer

Reported directly to the CEO, I was accountable for our Technology organization and customer experience. I led engineering, product management, UX, data science, and analytics overseeing the development and execution of our multi-year technology strategy:
  • Led technology due diligence, ensuring seamless system integration and managing the transition of technical assets and team through Regent LP's recent successful acquisition
  • Transformed Zulily’s e-commerce experience from legacy, in-house-developed systems to a scalable commerce platform on Shopify to modernize our capabilities and enhance our business agility, efficiency, and responsiveness
  • Executive sponsor for Zulily’s Women in Tech and Ada Developers Academy internship program, providing training and education opportunities and improving gender diversity and engagement
February 2023 - October 2023

Vice President, Technology

Accountable for technical strategy, engineering, and product management for Zulily's customer-facing desktop/mWeb and native apps shopping experience and for our in-house, geo-diverse fulfillment center technology and supply chain systems:
  • Spearheaded the modernization of a significant portion of our site from PHP to React, streamlining codebase and improving overall performance, security, and user engagement
  • Drove the transformation of our legacy flash-based inventory experience to include a new persistent product offering, resulting in increased conversion rates, higher new-customer demand, and increased visit days
  • Successfully led a multi-organization restructuring effort that optimized workflows and collaboration across engineering and product management, resulting in increased efficiency and alignment with business goals
  • Optimized cloud costs and renegotiate contracts with vendors and service providers, analyzing usage patterns, identifying areas for improvement, and negotiating better rates and terms. Achieved a 15% reduction in annual operating costs, resulting in significant cost savings and freeing up resources for strategic initiatives and innovation
  • Led our organic growth initiative, developing and executing a comprehensive strategy to improve site traffic and increase demand while improving website usability, customer engagement, conversion rates, and a year-over-year improvement of approximately 2% in SEO-driven demand
January 2022 - February 2023

Senior Director, Technical Product Management, Global Technology

Accountable for leading Nike Technology Operations technical product vision, strategy, roadmaps, scorecards, customer engagement, and prioritization:
  • Owned responsibility for leading Nike Technology Operations’ technical product vision, strategy, roadmaps, scorecards, customer engagement, and prioritization
  • Led the development of a cross-team Technical Program Management function to identify, plan, and manage technical cross-functional dependencies and solve program risks to increase overall program delivery confidence and drive simplification and clarity of scope
  • Served as a member of the Senior Leadership team comprised of executive leadership accountable for steering and strategic decisions impacting a multi-year ERP implementation
  • Designed and led the transition to a technical product management model aligned with OKRs
July 2020 - January 2022

Senior Director, Resilience Engineering, Global Technology

Accountable for Nike Global Technology Digital Resilence Engieering strategy and implementation:
  • Led the strategic effort across multiple Product teams, delivering a 100% multi-region deployment capability for business-critical Nike.com services, ensuring compliance with the Board of Director’s mandate
  • Onboarded chaos engineering practice and standards, growing resilience engineering across the Nike digital ecosystem
  • Directed the Portfolio Review for Senior Leadership in collaboration with the Strategy and Global Technology Office and provided prioritized visibility to a nearly $1B global technology portfolio
July 2019 - July 2020

Senior Director - Credit, Loyalty, and Gift Card Technology

Accountable for Credit, Loyalty, and Gift Card Technology organizations with a ~$17M annual budget across 90 team members in Seattle and Denver:
  • Launched The Nordy Club, a refresh of our decade old loyalty program extending to our customer faster rewards, improved benefits offerings, and a new Nordstrom tender option. This effort was the culmination of a nearly two-year program to migrate legacy tender rewards and integration with a single view of customer data across Loyalty, Credit, and numerous partner teams
  • Managed a ~$600MM legacy gift card platform migration from in-house to First Data, providing frictionless partner integration, native operations tool sets, and improved fraud capabilities
  • Delivered a card information texting service, enabling a Nordstrom Card holder the ability to interact with IVR style functionality via short code SMS texting, resulting in reduced call center volume and faster sales transactions
  • Replaced legacy on-premise New Card Account infrastructure with a scalable cloud architecture, resulting in improved BCDR assurance
February 2018 - July 2019

Director - Credit and Loyalty Technology

Accountable for Credit and Loyalty Technology organizations with a ~$17M annual budget across 80 team members in Seattle, Denver, and Bangalore:
  • Modernized nordstromcard.com; swapped legacy vendor applications for open source framework and modern infrastructure, allowing for faster product deployments (from six times annually, to twice weekly), improved customer experience (+2pts YoY CSAT), and decreased service center call volume, resulting in ~$5M annual savings
  • Delivered a multi-phase, legacy platform migration, bridging Nordstrom’s non-tender and card member loyalty programs, resulting in $4M annual technology savings and increased customer engagement
March 2017 - February 2018

Director - Credit Technology (Vice President, Technology for Nordstrom fsb)

Executive committee member/officer responsible for a large, customer facing technology organization managing a portfolio of ~6 million card holders and 200 million annual transactions. Brought into role as a change agent to stabilize an over budget, under delivering organization:
  • Officer of the bank responsible for $12.5M annual budget and 8 product teams developing in multiple technical platforms including custom software and infrastructure; accountable for NordstromCard.com
  • Executed a three-year organizational efficiencies roadmap in 1 year to meet an aggressive $2.5M budget reduction target, including re-alignment of products into self-sufficient DevOps delivery teams
  • Instituted a new engagement model with business partners by identifying new roles and engagement structure to improve business relations and prioritization of work
  • Implemented key missing foundation items such as mission, strategy, goals, and leveraged strategic deployment, creating line of sight for all work in the organization; provided a single view of risk, project and program commitments/results for business and technology partne
  • Developed a high-functioning leadership team; implemented standard work, cascading goals resulting in tighter budget alignment and speed to market while cutting negative attrition by 75%
  • Led the successful delivery (on time/on budget) for two major programs of work in less than ten months including a $2.2b divestiture
May 2015 - March 2017

Director – Customer Mobile Applications

Responsible for developing and guiding the technology delivery strategy across Nordstrom customer facing mobile applications:
  • Leader accountable for creating and driving strategy for transforming all customer facing engineering teams (700-member group) to 25% reduction in feature delivery cycle-time
  • Delivered first new tender type used on the Nordstrom iOS application since introduction, requiring integration and coordination across 21 internal product teams
  • Increased CSAT (Foresee) across our native apps by two points YOY via targeted improvements in app performance, and improved from 2.5 to 4.5-star lifetime app store rating
  • Drastically improved our demand and conversion data with the implementation of an improved transaction flow on the front and backend, across multiple funnels
  • Drove YOY growth in app demand by 61.3%, unique daily visitors (UDV) by 25.8%, conversion by 24.2%, downloads by 11%
  • Worked with a strategic vendor to test and learn new innovative in-store capabilities
  • Scaled our mobile organization 2X, while maintaining highest in Nordstrom Technology net promoter scores (93%) for retaining and developing talent and accelerating the delivery of a three-year roadmap in 18 months
May 2014 - May 2015

Group Manager - Customer Mobile Applications

Responsible for delivering our iPhone, iPad, and salesperson texting platform iOS and Android applications. Charged with managing a large onshore engineering and offshore test team of 40+ resources and multi-million-dollar project budget:
  • Drove our migration to test driven development, paired programming, implementing continuous integration for our iOS projects, and the current transition of our web services to the cloud
  • Took the team from Scrum to single-piece-flow by aligning on a single backlog and focusing on cycle time, drastically reducing our delivery times, improving our responsiveness, and providing MVP at the earliest possible opportunity
  • Led us through a focused technical debt reduction, decreasing app crash rates by 75%, reducing overall production bug count by 50%, implemented analytics to track performance, and made quality a priority resulting in 99.9% uptime
  • Increased in store transactions by 1.5% through targeted functionality supporting an in-store experience
  • Organized mobile “squads”, aligning with business outcomes across customer facing and data services, driving focused delivery and product management flexibility; resulting in 5X reduction in time between releases, and increased response time for feature updates
  • Influenced the integration of our UX and product teams into our engineering/delivery teams
April 2013 - May 2014

Development Manager - Software Engineering Tools Support

Responsible for enabling engineering teams, unlocking engineering productivity through the delivery of collaboration tools and capabilities:
  • Reduced operational expense by more than 20%, while nearly doubling productivity through measured reductions in non-cap work, automating processes, and prioritizing functionality
  • Supported the enhancement, integration, and delivery of cross organization software engineering support platforms (JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye, Sonar, Crucible, AppScan, HP QC), and legacy productivity systems (CA Clarity)
  • Implemented simplified Jira-to-Planview time tracking strategy; enabling visibility to portfolio->program->team investment and delivery predictability
  • Managed engineering, architecture, and analyst resources, along with delivery schedules, budget, agile processes, testing and test data management, and production data analytics
  • Provided product management and delivery for large-scale Jira/Confluence deployment, including support and systems implementation for a large-scale enterprise-wide agile transformation
May 2012 - April 2013

Technical Program Manager - Visibility

Responsible for managing the product delivery function for our high traffic, cargo tracking web application. Managed deployment schedules, feature discovery, agile processes, testing and test data management, and production data analytics:
  • Managed the migration from Smalltalk to Java, resulting in ~50% faster report production times
  • Delivered ‘report repository service’ features, allowing customers to create and schedule web reports, search report data, and combine product services, all while reducing technical load on a limited internal infrastructure
  • Introduced agile program management and delivery processes, creating visibility and prioritization
March 2008 - May 2012

Additional Experience


Education

Master of Arts in Education

Bachelor of Science in Education

Professional Development

Certificate - Full Stack Web Development

Certificate - Product Management

Certificate - Applied Agentic AI


Area of Expertise

Strategy Development and Execution
Business Process Improvement
Global, Cross-Functional, Distributed Team Leadership
Technical Program Management
Product Management
Software Development Life Cycle
Transformational Leadership
Technical Engineering and Architecture

Technical Skill

Node.js
MongoDB/DynamoDB
React
Javascript
EC2/S3/Lambda
HTML/CSS