Engineering Manager – EMEA

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

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a large cohort of engineers and team leads across various teams, conducting regular one-on-ones, providing feedback, performance evaluations, and facilitating career development aligned with Pencil Pathways.

• Collaborate with other Engineering Managers to synchronize planning, delivery cadence, incident management, release management, and retrospectives across different teams.

• Contribute to process enhancements to streamline operations and improve overall effectiveness.

• Assist the TPM in coordinating priorities with Product, Design, and Data teams, setting clear expectations, ensuring predictable delivery, and addressing people-related obstacles.

• Facilitate engineering recruitment and onboarding processes, including conducting interview loops and evaluating candidates.

• Foster a healthy and inclusive team culture while addressing conflicts, burnout, and performance challenges.

• Encourage continuous learning through experimentation, open failure reviews, and collective action plans.

• Maintain a solid understanding of architecture, key systems, trade-offs, and technical risks through design reviews, incident evaluations, and roadmap discussions.

• Hold teams accountable for achieving customer and business outcomes rather than focusing solely on output.

• Advocate for AI-first methodologies with human oversight and accountability.

• Assess and enhance retention, engagement, growth, performance, hiring/onboarding, alignment, delivery predictability, quality, value delivered, AI adoption, and ongoing learning.

⛳️ Requirements

• Several years of experience managing engineers, including overseeing multiple teams or other managers, preferably within a SaaS or rapidly growing product company.

• Proven history of enhancing team processes and delivery (e.g., agile methodologies, planning, metrics) with measurable outcomes, and cultivating a culture where teams learn from failures.

• Strong people management skills: coaching, providing candid feedback, performance management, and talent development.

• Experience in supporting recruitment (interviewing, candidate assessment) and retaining top-performing engineers while building diverse teams.

• Technical proficiency: ability to understand software development and deployment processes, engage in architecture and trade-off discussions, identify technical risks, ask insightful questions, and gain engineers' trust without needing to code or design systems personally.

• Demonstrated success in teams delivering measurable value (customer or business outcomes), not merely shipping features.

• Practical experience in integrating AI tools into team workflows, with a clear understanding of where human judgment remains crucial.

• Legal authorization to work and reside in the country where you intend to be employed.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 days of PTO in addition to public holidays, with a Flexible Time Off scheme in place.

• Health insurance and private medical coverage.

• Monthly stipend for wellness, fitness, and learning and development initiatives.

• Remote work opportunities from anywhere within your home country.

• Enhanced parental leave policies, applicable whether becoming a parent through birth, adoption, or surrogacy.

• Access to the Pencil office located in The Shard, London for UK-based employees.

• Flexible working hours.