Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Serve as the engineering execution and leadership counterpart to the Chief Product Technology Officer (CPTO), translating the product and technical vision into precise expectations and actions for teams.

• Collaborate with the CPTO to shape the Engineering organization, ensuring alignment of teams, roles, and capabilities with essential product modules and the company's strategic direction.

• Drive organizational transformation by restructuring teams, redefining roles and responsibilities, communicating changes clearly, and stabilizing teams post-transition.

• Establish performance benchmarks, deliver direct feedback, conduct performance discussions, nurture high achievers, and address instances of underperformance.

• Foster trust among technical and non-technical stakeholders by bridging communication between executive leadership, business needs, and engineering perspectives.

• Identify skill gaps and assist in deciding whether to develop capabilities internally, hire differently, redesign roles, or implement organizational changes.

• Create accountability while minimizing unnecessary processes and intervene when organizational momentum is lacking.

• Collaborate with the CPTO to highlight Engineering signals, constructively challenge direction as needed, and convert decisions into actionable change at an effective pace.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in people leadership within software engineering teams, demonstrating the ability to lead through periods of change.

• Exceptional communication and listening abilities, with the capacity to tailor messages for senior leaders, market-facing stakeholders, and highly technical engineers.

• Experience in providing direct feedback, engaging in difficult conversations, managing performance, and instilling accountability.

• Technical credibility that enables understanding of contemporary software architecture and engineering practices, engaging senior engineers, and translating technical decisions into organizational impacts.

• Hands-on experience with organizational design, team structures, or capability development, aimed at aligning the organization with product goals.

• Comfort with ambiguity and a sense of ownership, including the ability to test and refine approaches without a comprehensive playbook.

• Pragmatic change leadership that balances high standards with empathy and the readiness to make tough decisions.

• Capability to work effectively within European time zones.

• Ability to influence the organization without having direct ownership over the CPTO’s product, architecture, or technical direction.

🏝️ Benefits

• Our contemporary and open scale-up culture empowers you to express your creativity within a dynamic and agile team.

• Feedback is a fundamental aspect of your work.

• Access to Learning & Development programs, including an allocated L&D budget.

• Flexible working hours to suit your schedule.

• Option for hybrid working arrangements.

• Possibility of remote work.

• Enjoy 30 days of vacation.

• Monthly subsidized Deutschland-Ticket.

• Availability of job bikes.

• Regular team events and gaming sessions to foster camaraderie.

• Discounted WELLPASS membership for wellness benefits.

• Healthy snacks to keep you energized.

• Corporate Benefits offering exclusive discounts from leading brands.